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NVIDIA Showcases Award-Winning Technology at COMPUTEX 2005

 
 

NVIDIA Corporation:

Andrew Humber
European PR Manager
NVIDIA Ltd
ahumber@nvidia.com

Press Relations:

Ciarán Brennan or Clive Gorman
Bastion (NVIDIA PR)
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

NVIDIA Showcases Award-Winning Technology at COMPUTEX 2005

NVIDIA® Products Deliver Uncompromised Photos, Video, Games, and Performance

COMPUTEX 2005-TAIPEI, TAIWAN-MAY 31, 2005-NVIDIA Corporation (Nasdaq: NVDA), a worldwide leader in graphics and digital media processors, today announced it will showcase its award-winning line-up of innovative technologies and products at Computex 2005. During the show, which runs from May 31 to June 4 at the Taipei World Trade Center (TWTC), Computex visitors will discover why they should "NSIST on NVIDIA" for uncompromised digital media, gaming, photo, and video experiences on their PCs and other devices.

At the NVIDIA booth in Hall 1, Stand 709, NVIDIA has teamed up with a variety of partners, including Chenbro Micro and iWill, to enable visitors to experience the power and advanced capabilities of NVIDIA products:

  • NVIDIA nForce™4 media and communications processors (MCPs), which provide high-speed system performance, unparalleled secure networking, and advanced storage solutions for AMD and Intel-based desktop PCs. For the first time, NVIDIA will preview its next-generation NVIDIA nForce MCPs with GeForce™ graphics processing units (GPUs) for media-center, digital media, and small-form factor PCs.
  • NVIDIA GeForce 6 Series GPUs, the latest-generation of the Company's award-winning top-to-bottom product line for desktop PCs.
  • NVIDIA SLI™ technology allows NVIDIA GeForce6 series GPUs or NVIDIA Quadro® workstation boards to work in tandem, delivering blistering frame rates and unprecedented levels of visual realism in today's hottest games and industrial design applications.
  • NVIDIA PureVideo™ technology, an advanced combination of hardware and software that significantly improves the capabilities of the PC as a video playback device, providing home theatre quality video on desktop and notebook PCs.
  • NVIDIA GeForce Go 6 Series and Mobile PCI Express Module (MXM) brings state-of-the-art NVIDIA GeForce 6 Series performance to notebook platforms with a consistent graphics interface enabling interchangeable graphics cards in notebook PCs.
  • NVIDIA GoForce™ Series-powered devices, the NVIDIA family of wireless media processors (WMPs) adopted by leading mobile phone manufacturers

"Computex provides an amazing opportunity for NVIDIA to demonstrate how our technologies have made a huge impact on digital media devices such as mobile phones, corporate PCs, entertainment PCs, notebooks, workstations, and game consoles," said David Roman, vice president of worldwide corporate marketing at NVIDIA. "These solutions are on display at the NVIDIA booth and at 22 of our partners' booths, demonstrating the benefit of 'NSISTing on NVIDIA'."

Other show activities include:

  • NSIST on NVIDIA pavilions: NVIDIA will organise activities at two outdoor pavilions at the New York New York Department Store.
  • NVIDIA nForce Show: a special display wall will feature 24 NVIDIA nForce-based motherboards from partners including Abit, Albatron, Aopen, Arima, Asus, Biostar, Chaintech, DFI, ECS, Epox, Foxconn, Gigabyte, Inventec, iWill, Jetway, MSI, Soltek, and Tyan.
  • Lucky Draw: More than 100 NVIDIA-powered graphics boards and motherboards, and five barebones systems sponsored by iWill will be given away throughout the five days in daily lucky draws. Visitors to NVIDIA's booth can also take part in a lucky draw for the top prize, an ultimate gaming PC by Chenbro Micro, a leading chassis maker. To participate in the lucky draw, visitors need to collect stamps from 10 booths, including the NVIDIA booth. Visitors can drop their completed cards at the lucky draw box at the NVIDIA booth. Drawings will be held daily with three prizes for winners. The ultimate gaming PC will be given out at the grand drawing on June 4.
  • Dazzling Dancers: NSIST on NVIDIA dancers will visit partners' booths.
  • Billboards: Look for the NSIST on NVIDIA message on billboards around the exhibition areas from partners ASUS, Gigabyte, Leadtek, and MSI.

NVIDIA products will be displayed by NVIDIA partners including: Acer, Abit, Albatron, AMD, Aopen, Arima, ASUSTeK, AVC, Biostar, Chaintech, Chenbro, Clevo, Compal, Corsair, DFI, ECS, Ennyah, Epox, FIC, Foxconn, FSP, Gainward, Galaxy, Geminan, Gigabyte, Innovisio, Inventec, Jetway, Leadtek, Logitech, Medion, Mitac, MSI, Palit, Pine, Prolink, Quanta, Seagate, Sharp, Soltek, Sony, Sparkle, Toshiba, Twinhead, Tyan, Uniwill, XFX, and Wistron.

For more information about NVIDIA at Computex Taipei 2005, visit http://www.nvidia.com.tw/content/apevents/Computex2005/Computex_TW/index.html.

About NVIDIA
NVIDIA Corporation is a market leader in visual computing technology dedicated to creating products that enhance the interactive experience on consumer and professional computing platforms. Its graphics and communications processors have broad market reach and are incorporated into a wide variety of computing platforms, including consumer digital-media PCs, enterprise PCs, professional workstations, digital content creation systems, notebook PCs, military navigation systems and video game consoles. NVIDIA is headquartered in Santa Clara, California and employs more than 1,800 people worldwide. For more information, visit the Company’s Web site at www.nvidia.co.uk.

Certain statements in this press release, including any 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 "Certain Business Risks," for a fuller discussion of these and other risks and uncertainties.

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