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Intel
Developer Network for PCI Express Architecture |
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New NVIDIA GeForce PCX (PCI Express-based product) Family,
featuring Revolutionary HSI, is Used for Sales, Marketing
and Promotion of New Bus Initiative
For further information, contact:
Brian Burke NVIDIA Corporation (512) 401-4385 bburke@nvidia.com
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
SANTA CLARA ¨C MAY 27, 2004-NVIDIA Corporation (Nasdaq:
NVDA), the worldwide leader in visual processing solutions,
today announced that Intel Corporation will be using NVIDIA¡¯s
top-to-bottom family of PCI Express? graphics processing
units (GPUs), as part of Intel¡¯s PCI Express-enabled chipset
launch programs. Intel has purchased several thousand
NVIDIA PCI Express enabled GPUs which Intel will be using
for:
Platform Level Testing Software Development Kits Channel
Seed Kits Technical Solutions Training Various demo systems
NVIDIA is pleased to be working hand-in-hand with Intel¡¯s
launch teams to bring the benefits of PCI Express enabled
systems to end-users.
By using an innovative PCI Express (PCX) high-speed interconnect
(HSI), a complex piece of networking technology that performs
seamless, bi-directional interconnect protocol conversion
at incredible speed lines, NVIDIA can transform its award-winning
GeForce FX series into a full-family of PCI Express GPUs.
¡°The industry¡¯s confidence in HSI technology highlights
the stability, value, and performance of NVIDIA¡¯s PCX
family,¡± stated Dan Vivoli, executive vice president of
marketing at NVIDIA. ¡°We¡¯re excited about the opportunity
to work with Intel in delivering graphics products that
will maximize the benefits of PCI Express technology.¡±
NVIDIA¡¯s complete family of GeForce PCX products have
been validated with the industry¡¯s top motherboard, chipset,
and BIOS vendors. NVIDIA has already shipped more than
4,000 PCI Express boards to customers and partners.
For more information about NVIDIA¡¯s PCI Express efforts,
visit www.nvidia.com/object/pci_express.html and additional
information on the Intel Developer Network for PCI Express
please visit http://developer.intel.com/.
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.com .
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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Copyright ? 2004 NVIDIA Corporation. All rights reserved.
All company and/or product names may be trade names, trademarks
and/or registered trademarks of the respective owners
with which they are associated. Features, pricing, availability,
and specifications are subject to change without notice.
Note to editors: If you are interested in viewing additional
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at http://www.nvidia.com/page/press_room.html |
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NVIDIA
Works With Intel on PCI Express |
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In communications and embedded applications PCI has been
deployed ubiquitously as a local interconnect technology
over the last decade. Today's communications and embedded
applications are demanding higher bandwidths that push
the limits of parallel bus architecture. PCI Express as
a high-bandwidth, low pin count, serial, interconnect
technology that also maintains software compatibility
with existing PCI infrastructure, is uniquely positioned
as the logical interconnect technology for products being
developed today.
PCI Express in communications and embedded applications
offers the following benefits that utilize the trends
of convergence and modularity.
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Advanced Switching* based on PCI Express Architecture
addresses the switch fabric needs of modular communications
and embedded hardware platforms as a standard, open fabric
technology that includes congestion management, protocol
agnostic switching, broadcast/multicast support while
reusing the physical and link layers of PCI Express.
¡ñ The broad
adoption of PCI Express in desktop and enterprise market
segments enables convergence through the re-use of a common
interconnect technology.
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As this common interconnect, PCI Express in communications
and embedded will benefit from lower costs, a stronger
ecosystem and the widespread interoperability associated
with the large volumes from the compute and enterprise
market segments.
Intel, as the number one silicon provider for both the
communications/embedded, computing and enterprise industries,
is committed to aligning all of our compute and communications
silicon, platforms, solutions and ecosystem enabling with
PCI Express. Introduction to PCI Express: A Hardware and
Software Developer's Guide |
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