MEDIA ALERT:

NVIDIA ANNOUNCES UPCOMING SCHEDULE OF EVENTS WITH THE FINANCIAL COMMUNITY

SANTA CLARA, CA - MAY 18, 2006 - NVIDIA Corporation (Nasdaq: NVDA) the worldwide leader in programmable graphics processor technologies, will be participating in the following upcoming conferences:

J.P. Morgan Securities Inc. – 34th Annual JPMorgan Technology Conference Wednesday, May 24, 2006 at 8:00 AM Pacific Time (11:00 AM Eastern Time) Westin St. Francis Hotel, San Francisco, California

Friedman, Billings, Ramsey Group, Inc. – 2006 Growth Investor Conference Thursday, June 1, 2006 at 8:15 AM Eastern Time (5:15 AM Pacific Time) Grand Hyatt New York, New York, New York

Interested parties can listen to a live audio Web cast of NVIDIA’s presentation at these events on the NVIDIA Investor Relations Web site at www.nvidia.co.uk/investor. A replay of the Web cast will be available for thirty days after each event.

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.

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