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NVIDIA CHANNEL PROGRAM ACHIEVES 200% GLOBAL GROWTH

 
 


MEDIA ALERT:

NVIDIA CHANNEL PROGRAM ACHIEVES 200% GLOBAL GROWTH

Membership Triples in 2007 with Global Expansion; 2008 Worldwide PartnerForce Conference Scheduled for August

SANTA CLARA, CA—FEBRUARY 19, 2008

News facts:

  • NVIDIA Corporation announced today that the Company has recognised a 200% growth year over year in their partner channel program membership due to its rapid global expansion.
  • With this worldwide momentum, NVIDIA® is planning significant expansion of programs and support for global partners in 2008, including its first global PartnerForce conference, which will be held in San Jose, CA on August 25 – 27.
  • The NVIDIA end-to-end channel ecosystem includes the NVIDIA Authorised Board Partner Program, Authorised Distributor Program, and PartnerForce Program. These programs deliver sales, marketing, support, and training programs for qualified board partners, distributors, resellers, and system builders.
  • In 2007, NVIDIA increased its partner reach with an expansion of the NVIDIA® PartnerForce program by adding France, Germany, Italy, Russia, Spain, Poland, India, and China to its existing deployments in the U.S., Mexico, Brazil, and the United Kingdom, closing the year with more than 30,000 partners worldwide.
  • The Company also launched the “nTrain Initiative” which includes a series of global live Webinars as well as on-demand and face-to-face events.

Quotes:

UK:
“The NVIDIA PartnerForce program gives us access to all the sales tools and support we need to plan and integrate NVIDIA products into our systems,” said Andrew Richards of Kobalt Computers Ltd, a UK-based PartnerForce Program member. “It performs the vital role of keeping us up to date with the latest NVIDIA news and saves a vast amount of time in our marketing efforts as NVIDIA provides all of the resources we need to promote and advertise our products to our customers.”
Andrew Richards, Kobalt Computers Ltd, UK-based PartnerForce member

NVIDIA:
“At NVIDIA we recognise the role our partners play in our success, and in 2007 we really focused on expanding our global program reach giving more partners access to the product information, tools, and sales support. The response to our new program has been incredible, and we plan to continue to deliver the highest level of support for years to come, including enhancing our set of training programs, marketing initiatives, and support capabilities in 2008 alone.”
John Lonergan, NVIDIA vice president of worldwide channel operations

More information on the NVIDIA PartnerForce Program can be found at www.nvidia.co.uk/partnerforce

About NVIDIA
NVIDIA Corporation is the worldwide leader in programmable graphics processor technologies. The Company creates innovative, industry-changing products for computing, consumer electronics, and mobile devices. NVIDIA is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA and has offices throughout Asia, Europe, and the Americas. For more information, visit www.nvidia.co.uk.

Certain statements in this release including, but not limited to, statements as to: the features, uses, benefits, and performance of the programs NVIDIA offers to its global partners, Hybrid SLI, motherboard GPUs for Intel, NVIDIA Quadro products, GeForceBoost and Hybrid Power; programs and support for global partners; and new initiatives are forward-looking statements that are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause results to be materially different than expectations. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially include: our reliance on third-parties to manufacture, assemble, package and test our products; issues associated with design and manufacturing of products; changes in NVIDIA’s programs with its partners; manufacturing or software defects; the impact of technological development and competition; selection of a competitor's products; changes in industry standards and interfaces as well as other factors detailed from time to time in the reports NVIDIA files with the Securities and Exchange Commission including its Form 10-Q for the period ended October 28, 2007. Copies of reports filed with the SEC are posted on our website and are available from NVIDIA without charge. These forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and speak only as of the date hereof, and, except as required by law, NVIDIA disclaims any obligation to update these forward-looking statements to reflect future events or circumstances.

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