| NVIDIA® TURBOCACHE™ TECHNOLOGY ADOPTED BY LEADING EUROPEAN SYSTEM BUILDERS
MEDIA ALERT: NVIDIA® TURBOCACHE™ TECHNOLOGY ADOPTED BY LEADING EUROPEAN SYSTEM BUILDERS Wave of Support from Key System Builders as NVIDIA TurboCache Technology Gains Momentum in the Market THEALE, BERKSHIRE — APRIL 7, 2005 — NVIDIA Corporation (Nasdaq: NVDA), a worldwide leader in graphics and digital media processors, today announced that many of Europe’s leading manufacturers of PCs have chosen the GeForce™ 6200 graphics processing unit (GPU) with TurboCache technology for inclusion in their new products. Exploiting the increased bandwidth of PCI Express, NVIDIA TurboCache technology enables the GPU to render directly to system memory, minimising the need for local memory on the graphics card. “For anyone that has been wondering about the benefits of PCI Express for the entry level market, TurboCache technology is the answer," says Roy Taylor, vice president of sales, EMEA & India for NVIDIA. “NVIDIA TurboCache technology is designed to offer unprecedented performance levels at a value price, and we are thrilled to see that it is having such a positive impact on the market, particularly with the PC manufacturers.” System builders currently shipping products based on NVIDIA TurboCache technology include:
For more details on NVIDIA TurboCache, see http://www.nvidia.co.uk/page/turbocache.html. About NVIDIA NVIDIA Corporation is a worldwide leader in graphics and digital media processors. The Company's products enhance the end-user experience on consumer and professional computing devices. NVIDIA GPUs (graphics processing units), MCPs (media and communications processors) and WMPs (wireless media processors) have broad market reach and are incorporated into a variety of platforms, including consumer and enterprise PCs, notebooks, workstations, PDAs, mobile phones and video game consoles. NVIDIA is headquartered in California and employs more than 2,000 people worldwide. For more information, visit the Company’s Web site at www.nvidia.co.uk. Certain statements in this press release including, but not limited to, the features, capabilities, benefits and performance of our products and technologies 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, incompatibility of technologies, manufacturing or software defects, general industry trends including cyclical trends in the semiconductor industry, delays in integration of our products, the impact of competitive products and pricing alternatives, changes in industry standards and interfaces, our dependence on third-party developers and publishers and other risks detailed from time to time in the NVIDIA reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission including its Form 10-Q for the quarter ended October 24, 2004. These forward-looking statements speak only as of the date hereof. NVIDIA disclaims any obligation to update these forward-looking statements. Copyright © 2005 NVIDIA Corporation. All rights reserved. All company and/or product names may be trade names, trademarks and/or registered trademarks of the respective owners with which they are associated. Features, pricing, availability and specifications are subject to change without notice. If you are interested in viewing additional information on NVIDIA, please visit the NVIDIA Press Room at http://www.nvidia.co.uk/page/press_room.html. |
