NVIDIA CORPORATION FROM SUPER PHONES TO SUPER CARS

NVIDIA awakened the world to computer With the invention of the virtual GPU, NVIDIA IN BRIEF graphics when it invented the GPU in 1999. we’re accelerating cloud computing for Founded in 1993 From our roots in visual computing, we’ve consumers and enterprises. Jen-Hsun Huang is co-founder, expanded into super, mobile and cloud president and CEO computing. NVIDIA’s mobile processors GPUs: THE ENGINES OF are used in smartphones, tablets and auto MODERN COMPUTING Listed with NASDAQ under the symbol NVDA in 1999 infotainment systems. PC gamers rely on One of the most complex processors ever GPUs to enjoy spectacularly immersive created, the GPU is the engine behind Invented the GPU in 1999 and has shipped more than 1 billion to date worlds. Professionals use them to create state-of-the-art computer graphics and visual effects in movies and design every- energy-efficient computing. NVIDIA’s latest 7,500 employees worldwide thing from golf clubs to jumbo jets. And GPU architecture, Kepler, boasts 7 billion $4 billion in revenue in FY12 researchers utilize GPUs to advance the transistors. Based on Kepler, the GTX690 5,000 patents issued, allowed frontiers of science with high-performance is the fastest, most energy efficient GPU or filed computers. ever built. And key features in Kepler Ranked #10 “greenest” company in will make supercomputing more efficient America by Newsweek in 2011 A CULTURE OF REINVENTION and accessible. Founded in 1993, NVIDIA has continuously reinvented itself to delight users and shape A PASSIONATE FOLLOWING the industry. From our beginnings in PC The passionate drive that fuels our company graphics, we expanded into professional is most powerfully reflected back from our graphics to become the standard bearer in users. The devotion to our brand is truly visual computing. We later harnessed the rare and is expressed in deeply personal capabilities of the GPU to ways—including artwork, tattoos and even advance high-performance computing. Our in fans naming their children “NVIDIA.” move into mobile put us at the center of one of the industry’s fastest-growing segments. NVIDIA’s latest class of GPUs have up to 7 billion transistors.

NVIDIA | FACTSHEET | 0812 “What NVIDIA is helping GEFORCE: AMAZING VISUAL EXPERIENCES TESLA: ACCELERATING SCIENCE to create is a world only Our heritage is in PC graphics, and our NVIDIA’s expertise in programmable limited by our imaginations, GeForce® processors deliver amazing GPUs has led to breakthroughs in parallel visual experiences to a booming gaming processing. Scientists and researchers where dreams can blend market—opening week game sales around the world are using Tesla® GPUs to with reality, where our regularly outstrip sales of blockbuster tackle the most complex challenges, from Hollywood movies. The PC gaming market climate modeling to quantum physics to hopes can be realized.” ® ® is expected to reach $25B in 2016. And finding a cure for cancer. NVIDIA CUDA — Rob Enderle, Enderle Group gaming is one of the most popular activities architecture enables GPUs to work not in China’s 160,000+ icafes. Beyond gaming, just with the pixels of an image, but with GeForce processors power the sleekest numerical data. NVIDIA Tesla processors ultrabooks so users can do things like harness CUDA to make supercomputing edit movies, retouch photos and play more efficient and more accessible. Today, games without compromise. GeForce CUDA is taught in more than 560 universities. notebook GPUs also efficiently power the On the June 2012 list of Top500 supercom- MacBook Pro and its dazzling 2880×1800 puters, more than 50 systems were powered Retina display. by NVIDIA GPUs, rising from 10 in just 18 months.

QUADRO: THE PROFESSIONALS’ CHOICE In the early 2000s, our invention of a programmable processor expanded : THE MOBILE SUPER CHIP NVIDIA’s reach into professional graphics. Tegra®, a mobile super chip, powers the Today, the majority of the world’s cars and next generation of mobile devices, as well planes, as well as a host of consumer as in-car safety and infotainment systems. products like tennis shoes and shampoo Tegra 3’s 4-PLUS-1 architecture—four bottles, are designed using ® powerful CPU cores handle demanding tasks GPU-ACCELERATED CLOUD COMPUTING solutions. In film, Quadro GPUs were while a fifth low-power, battery-saver core Cloud computing will deliver the content behind all of the “Best Visual Effects” manages less strenuous tasks—provides people care about to whatever display Oscar nominees for the past three years outstanding performance and exceptional they’re looking at. With the invention of the running. With NVIDIA Maximus technology, battery life. The Asus Transformer Prime virtual GPU, NVIDIA is accelerating cloud designers and engineers can do graphics- tablet and super phones from HTC, Fujitsu computing, from gaming to the enterprise. intensive work and compute-intensive work and ZTE are just a few of the devices that With GeForce® GRID, gamers have the at the same time, on the same machine. feature the super chip. NVIDIA continues freedom to play the most graphics-intensive to build on its early tech leadership in the games from the cloud on any display. And mobile computing revolution. In 2012, the NVIDIA VGX™ enables a true PC experience number of Tegra phone design wins has for the hundreds of millions of power users doubled, from 15 to 30; Tegra was selected who increasingly want to bring their own by Asus to power the world’s first WinRT devices to work. tablet; and Google chose Tegra for its own Android tablet, the Nexus 7.

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