New Delhi, Dec. 27 -- Nvidia may be the largest company today by market value and a favourite among tech giants, but that has not always been the case. The Jensen Huang-led company had once faced the ire of Linux CEO Linus Torvalds.

In 2012, the Linux CEO was addressing a public Q&A session when he called Nvidia the 'worst' company he had ever dealt with. An old video of the conversation has resurfaced, where Torvalds explained why he thinks so.

"Nvidia has been one of the worst trouble spots we've had with hardware manufacture and that is really sad because Nvidia tries sell chips, a lot of chips into the Android market and Nvidia has been the single worst company we've ever dealt with," Linus Torvalds said when a woman asked him about...