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NVIDIA LAUNCHES a UNIQUE PROGRAM to SUPPORT OEM SYSTEM Submittedbuilders By: Edelman Ltd Thursday, 24 February 2000 NVIDIA LAUNCHES A UNIQUE PROGRAM TO SUPPORT OEM SYSTEM SubmittedBUILDERS by: Edelman Ltd Thursday, 24 February 2000 For Further Information, Contact: Alain TIQUET Marketing Director Europe NVIDIA Corporation Tel: +44 (0) 1235 52 24 23 E-Mail: [email protected] Phil Rawcliffe Edelman Public Relations Tel: +44 (0) 207 344 1311 E-Mail: [email protected] A single driver running on the widest product range across the widest certified boards manufacturers choice London - February 24, 2000 - NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ: NVDA) today announced the launch of a unique program dedicated to set the best quality levels for the NVIDIA based boards and to support the system builders using NVIDIA 3D technology. NVIDIA is the first graphics company to span workstations to sub $1000 PC and to provide a unified driver across its entire product range. OEM PC manufacturers have access to NVIDIA graphics chips technology through numerous graphics card manufacturers. Recently, according to market analyst Mercury Research (Scottsdale AZ), NVIDIA has moved from number four to number two position in desktop stand-alone market. With the rapid acceptance of NVIDIA 3D technology in the Fortune 500, small/medium-sized businesses, homes and professional markets NVIDIA has decided to put the 'Select Solution' program in place to guarantee to OEM system builders the best quality level across multiple combinations of boards and suppliers together with the use of the unified driver Detonator. The select solution program is designed to guarantee that the 'select builder' have access to: - Certified graphics boards meeting the optimum compatibility level in accordance with Microsoft Page 1 certification requirements. - Certified graphics boards meeting the best manufacturing quality requirements defined by NVIDIA. - The up-to-date NVIDIA unified driver is provided with the boards. - A strong and efficient field technical support is available to all system builders. The first OEM board manufacturers to meet the 'Select Solution' program criteria’s are ELSA, GUILLEMOT and 3DPOWER. Additional names should complete the list soon. The 'Select Builder' program allows the OEM PC builders using the 'Select Solution' products to get direct support from NVIDIA. They will have access to a dedicated WEB site for products update and news. They will have access to a choice of promotion materials (products sheets, logos, posters, banners). NVIDIA will contribute to the 'Select builders' promotion activities like advertising, incentive programs and others sales and marketing events. "NVIDIA is committed to increase the momentum of the 3D graphics technology acceptance," comments Dan Vivoli, Senior Vice President of NVIDIA, "we will make every efforts to make sure the OEM PC builders have access to the best 3D products and NVIDIA shall contribute to their promotion of the 3D technology in every applications". NVIDIA Products The first 3D graphics semiconductor company to deliver a complete top-to-bottom family of 3D solutions, NVIDIA gives developers the advantage of one unified driver and one architecture across all implementations. The proven graphics architecture and massive gate counts translate into stunningly realistic, high-performance results. NVIDIA single-chip processors enable high-frame-rate 3D graphics, benchmark-winning 2D graphics, and VGA and video acceleration for unequaled visual realism and real-time interactivity. Optimized for both Direct3D and OpenGL® APIs, the NVIDIA products currently include: - NVIDIA GeForce 256 for the PC enthusiast market. The world's first graphics processing unit, GeForce 256 delivers an order-of-magnitude increase in geometry processing power and enables unmatched access to interactive content. - NVIDIA Quadro for professional workstations, digital content creation, and MCAD markets. The Quadro processor integrates the revolutionary QuadEngine architecture for optimized transform and lighting functions. - NVIDIA RIVA TNT2 for the performance PC market. The RIVA TNT2 and RIVA TNT2 Pro feature NVIDIA's award-winning, fourth-generation, 128-bit 3D architecture that has garnered more than 400 industry awards. - NVIDIA Vanta, and RIVA TNT2 M64 for the commercial PC markets. Also based on the award-winning RIVA TNT2 architecture, these processors offer low-cost, highly integrated choices for entry-level add-in card and motherboard applications. Page 2 - NVIDIA Aladdin TNT2 for the sub-$1000 PC market. The first truly integrated, core-logic GPU, Aladdin TNT2 redefines the possibilities for the lowest-cost platforms. About NVIDIA NVIDIA Corporation, the world's leading supplier of performance 3D graphics processors, is the only independent top-to-bottom supplier of 3D graphics solutions for mainstream PCs. NVIDIA designs, markets and sells an award-winning family of 3D processors, delivering industry-leading performance and visual quality for a broad range of PC-based applications, including enterprise visualization, e-commerce, e-business, education and entertainment. Used by the top PC OEMs in the world, NVIDIA's products are distributed through a worldwide channel that includes PC OEM, add-in card and motherboard partners in Europe, Asia and North America. For more information, please visit the Company's web site at http://www.nvidia.com. Certain statements in this press release, including the statements relating to the Company's performance expectations for NVIDIA's family of products and expectations of continued revenue growth, are forward-looking statements that are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause results to be materially different than expectations. Such risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, manufacturing and other delays relating to new products, difficulties in the fabrication process and dependence of the Company on third party manufacturers, general industry trends, including cyclical trends in the PC and semiconductor industries, the impact of competitive products and pricing alternatives, market acceptance of the Company's new products and the Company's dependence on third party developers and publishers. Investors are advised to read the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K and quarterly reports on Form 10-Q filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, particularly those sections entitled "Factors Affecting Operating Results," for a fuller discussion of these and other risks and uncertainties. Notes to Editors: The recommended way of writing GeForce 256 is with an uppercase G and F, all other letters lowercase, with a space between GeForce and 256. The recommended way of writing Vanta and Quadro is in title case. Please note that the recommended way of writing NVIDIA, RIVA 128, RIVA 128ZX, RIVA TNT and RIVA TNT2 is all CAPITALS. NVIDIA, the NVIDIA logo, RIVA TNT, RIVA TNT2, NVIDIA Vanta,GeForce 256 and Quadro are trademarks of NVIDIA Corporation. Other company and product names may be trademarks of the respective companies with which they are associated. Page 3 Distributed via Press Release Wire (https://pressreleases.responsesource.com/) on behalf of Edelman Ltd Copyright © 1999-2021 ResponseSource, The Johnson Building, 79 Hatton Garden, London, EC1N 8AW, UK e: [email protected] t: 020 3426 4051 f: 0345 370 7776 w: https://www.responsesource.com.
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