News: Partner nVidia per il PCI-Express

[Staff]

<br><blockquote><i>SANTA CLARA, CA—JUNE 21, 2004—NVIDIA Corporation (Nasdaq: NVDA), the worldwide leader in visual and media processing solutions, today announced that the Company’s top-to-bottom product family of PCI Express™-enabled graphics processing units (GPUs) has gained wide acceptance among the PC industry’s top add-in card manufacturers.<p>

“By working closely with Intel through the design, testing and validation of our high-speed interconnect technology, we are helping make the new PCI Express standard a reality,” said Jeff Fisher, executive vice president of worldwide sales at NVIDIA. “Our successful implementation of the new bus is exemplified by the wide adoption of our PCI Express solutions by practically every leading AIC manufacturer.”<p>

Add-in card manufacturers who will be offering NVIDIA PCI Express-based add-in cards include:<p>
-Albatron Technology Co., Ltd.<br>
-AnexTEK Global Inc. <br>
-Aopen America, Inc<br>
-ASUS Computer International<br>
-BFG Technologies, Inc.<br>
-BioStar<br>
-Chaintech Computer Co. Ltd.<br>
-eVGA.com Corporation<br>
-Gainward Co. Ltd.<br>
-Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd<br>
-Jaton<br>
-Leadtek Research Inc.<br>
-MSI Computer Corporation<br>
-Palit Microsystems, Inc.<br>
-PNY Technologies, Inc.<br>
-Prolink Microsystems Corporation <br>
-Sparkle<br>
-XFX <p>
PCI Express significantly increases bandwidth between the central processing unit (CPU) and GPU by enabling a balanced distribution of bandwidth to those applications that require it the most. By using an innovative the High-Speed Interconnect (HSI) technology, a complex piece of networking technology that performs seamless, bi-directional interconnect protocol conversion at incredible speed lines, NVIDIA can transform its award-winning GPUs into a full family of PCI Express GPUs. The NVIDIA® family of PCI Express-enabled graphics solutions includes:<p>

-GeForce™ 6800 Ultra<br>
-GeForce 6800 GT<br>
-GeForce PCX 5900<br>
-GeForce PCX 5750<br>
-GeForce PCX 5300 <p>

The NVIDIA family of PCI Express-enabled graphics solutions will be available later this month.</i></blockquote><p>