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LONDON, ENGLAND — 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:

Birg Computer (Austria) Pouliadis (Greece) StartMaster (Russia)
Chiligreen (Austria) BAS (Holland) ADL PC (Spain)
Midt Data (Denmark) Paradigit (Holland) Airis (Spain)
Zitech (Denmark) SKY (Holland) IHDE (Spain)
Multimedis (France) Ergo Italia (Italy) EUD (Sweden)
Unika (France) Komplett (Norway) Network (Sweden)
Arlt Computer (Germany) NTT (Poland) Escort (Turkey)
B.com (Germany) Komputronik (Poland) MKS (Ukraine)
Hyrican (Germany) Vobis (Poland) Versiya (Ukraine)
Tarox (Germany) EximerDM (Russia) Mesh (UK)
Yakumo (Germany) Formoza (Russia) Time (UK)
Info Quest (Greece) ISM (Russia) Viglen (UK)
Multirama (Greece) K-Systems (Russia)
Oktabit (Greece) NT Computer (Russia)

By integrating NVIDIA TurboCache technology into their systems, PC manufacturers are now able to offer their customers a highly specified system with best-in-class performance in the value segment, which still gives its users blisteringly fast 3D graphics, full support for Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0 Shader Model 3.0 and NVIDIA PureVideo™ technology, a combination of hardware and software that brings consumer electronics-quality video to the PC.

For more details on NVIDIA TurboCache, see http://www.nvidia.co.uk/page/turbocache.html