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NVIDIA Now Providing Notebook Graphics Drivers On NVIDIA.COM
SANTA CLARA, CA—DECEMBER 18, 2008—Users with notebooks equipped with NVIDIA® graphics processing units (GPUs) now have the added flexibility of downloading upgradeable graphics drivers directly from NVIDIA.

   
THQ Selects NVIDIA PhysX Technology For Use In Its WorldWide Studios
SANTA CLARA, CA—DECEMBER 18, 2008—NVIDIA® Corporation today announced that THQ Inc., a leading worldwide developer and publisher of interactive entertainment software, has selected NVIDIA PhysX™ technology for use by its studios worldwide.

   
NVIDIA Ion Platform Energizes Atom Into A Premium PC Experience
SANTA CLARA, CA—DECEMBER 17, 2008—NVIDIA® is poised to energize the PC market by transforming Atom PCs into a premium experience found today in higher priced laptops and desktops.

   
NVIDIA CUDA Technology Dramatically Advances The Pace Of Scientific Research
SANTA CLARA, CA—December 17, 2008— Once thought of as a technology used only for computer games, NVIDIA® GeForce® graphics processing units (GPUs) with CUDA™ technology are now being used for the serious business of scientific computation.

   
NVIDIA Adds OpenCL To Its Industry Leading GPU Computing Toolkit
SIGGRAPH ASIA 2008—SINGAPORE—DECEMBER 9 2008—NVIDIA Corporation today announced its full support for the newly released OpenCL 1.0 specification from the Khronos Group.

   
CUDA Cleans Up At SuperComputing Industry Awards
SANTA CLARA, CA—DECEMBER 8 2008—Every year at the Supercomputing (SC) convention (http://sc08.supercomputing.org), the organizing committee and media partners give awards for outstanding high performance computing (HPC) research and achievements.

   
EA Signed On To License NVIDIA PhysX Technology
SANTA CLARA, CA—DECEMBER 8, 2008—NVIDIA® Corporation today announced that Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: ERTS) has licensed NVIDIA PhysX technology as a development platform which will be available for EA’s studios worldwide.

   
2K GAMES Licenses NVIDIA PhysX Technology For Its Studios Worldwide
SANTA CLARA, CA—DECEMBER 8, 2008—NVIDIA Corporation today announced that 2K Games, a publishing label of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc., has selected NVIDIA® PhysX™ technology for use by 2K Games’ studios worldwide.

   
DICE Puts Faith In NVIDIA PhysX Technology For Mirror's Edge
SANTA CLARA, CA—NOVEMBER 19, 2008—In the award-winning videogame Mirror’s Edge™, DICE, an Electronic Arts Inc. studio, introduces players to a new heroine named Faith.

   
NVIDIA Tesla Gives Bull Customers A Revolutionary Performance Boost
SC08—AUSTIN, TX—NOVEMBER 19, 2008—Bull, a leading supplier of high performance computing (HPC) technologies, is partnering with NVIDIA to provide the Tesla™ S1070 GPU Computing System as the accelerator option for their HPC solutions.

   
NVIDIA And NEC Collaborate To Deliver GPU Computing Solutions To HPC Market
SC08—AUSTIN, TX—NOVEMBER 19, 2008—NVIDIA has announced today that it has begun a close collaboration with NEC to integrate NVIDIA® Tesla™ GPUs into its systems for the high performance computing (HPC) industry.

   
NVIDIA Tesla TurboCharges High-Performance Computing Industry With HP Proliant Servers
SC08—AUSTIN, TX—NOVEMBER 19, 2008—NVIDIA today announced that the Tesla™ S1070 Computing System is now being offered in the highly successful range of HP ProLiant servers.

   
NVIDIA And CRAY To Deliver Tesla-Enabled CRAY CX1 Desk Side Super Computer
SC08—AUSTIN, TX and SEATTLE, WA —NOVEMBER 19, 2008—NVIDIA Corporation (Nasdaq: NVDA) and Cray (Nasdaq GM: CRAY) today announced the availability of NVIDIA Tesla C1060 GPU Computing processors in the new Cray CX1 line of supercomputers.

   
NVIDIA Tesla Makes Personal SuperComputing A Reality
SC08—AUSTIN, TX—NOVEMBER 18 2008— Today, scientific research is carried out on supercomputing clusters, a shared resource that consumes hundreds of kilowatts of power and costs millions of dollars to build and maintain.

   
Mathematica Users Get 100x Performance Boost From NVIDIA CUDA
SC08—AUSTIN, TX—NOVEMBER 18, 2008—At SC08, Wolfram Research will demonstrate a new version of Mathematica, the world’s most powerful general computational software, that integrates CUDA®, NVIDIA’s parallel GPU computing architecture.

   
NVIDIA Demonstrates Powerful GPU Computing Solution From Lenovo At SC08
SC08—AUSTIN, TX—NOVEMBER 18, 2008—Today at SC08, NVIDIA demonstrated a Lenovo ThinkStation equipped with Tesla™ C1060 GPU Computing processing technology.

   
Tokyo Tech Builds First Tesla GPU Based Heterogeneous Cluster To Reach Top 500
SC08—AUSTIN, TX—NOVEMBER 17, 2008—The Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) today announced a collaboration with NVIDIA to use NVIDIA® Tesla™ GPUs to boost the computational horsepower of its TSUBAME supercomputer.

   
OpenGeoSolutions Transforms Seismic Modeling With NVIDIA TESLA
SEG 2008—LAS VEGAS, NV—NOVEMBER 11, 2008 — Geophysicists in the oil and gas industry are seeking more accurate images of what lies beneath the earth. In order to find what’s been buried for millions of years, Calgary-based OpenGeoSolutions uses a technique called “Spectral Decomposition” specifically to reveal geological information that goes beyond classic seismic resolution and detection.

   
NVIDIA Breaks Visual Computing Barriers With First 4GB Graphics Card
SANTA CLARA, CA – November 10, 2008 – Professionals searching for oil, diagnosing illness or styling the next high-performance luxury vehicle all have one thing in common, the need for advanced visual computing solutions.

   
NVIDIA Delivers World’s Fastest 3D Accelerator For Remote & Distributed Visualization
SANTA CLARA, CA—NOVEMBER 10, 2008—NVIDIA Corp. further demonstrates its commitment to break through visual computing performance barriers with today’s introduction of the new NVIDIA® Quadro® Plex 2200 S4 Visual Computing System (VCS), the world’s fastest 3D accelerator for remote graphics visualization and rendering.

   
Business Applications Get The Big Picture With NVIDIA Quadro NVS 450 Graphics Card
SANTA CLARA, CA—November 10, 2008—From Wall Street to Main Street, the need for ultra high-resolution professional graphics performance is on the rise. NVIDIA Corp. today introduced the ideal solution: the NVIDIA® Quadro® NVS 450 graphics card.

   
NVIDIA Reports Financial Results for Third Quarter of Fiscal 2009
SANTA CLARA, CA—NOVEMBER 6, 2008—NVIDIA Corporation (Nasdaq: NVDA) today reported financial results for the third quarter of fiscal 2009 ended October 26, 2008.

   
NVIDIA Redefines Entry-Level Professional Graphics For Small And Integrated Form Factors
SANTA CLARA, CA—November 6, 2008—With today’s traditional workstation model pricing, many organizations can only afford to deploy professional graphics solutions to select designers and engineers, leaving a significant portion of the workforce with sub-optimal products. This is about to change as NVIDIA Corp.

   
Toshiba Introduces The World’s First Laptops With Three NVIDIA GPUs
SANTA CLARA, CA—NOVEMBER 6, 2008—When Toshiba set out to reset the bar for high performance gaming laptops and revamp its flagship gaming line, the company turned to NVIDIA for its expertise in visual computing.

   
NVIDIA Graphics Supercharge Windows 7
LOS ANGELES, CA (WINHEC 2008)—November 5, 2008—Attendees of the annual Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC), held in Los Angeles this week, will have the opportunity to experience the visual enhancements coming in Windows 7 in part due to the close collaboration between Microsoft and NVIDIA.

   
NVIDIA Announces 2009-2010 Fellowship Program
SANTA CLARA, CA—NOVEMBER 3, 2008—NVIDIA Corporation (Nasdaq: NVDA), the world leader in visual computing technologies, announced it is accepting applications for the NVIDIA® Fellowship Program for the 2009-2010 academic year.

   
SeismicCity Improves Depth Perception with NVIDIA GPU Computing Technology
SANTA CLARA, CA—OCTOBER 29, 2008—Houston-based SeismicCity announced today that it is using NVIDIA® Tesla™ S1070 1U systems for Reverse Time Migration (RTM) – one of the most advanced seismic imaging techniques ever used by the oil and gas industry. SeismicCity selected the NVIDIA Tesla S1070 as it offered the fastest and most scalable implementation to run these complex algorithms enabling discovery of new oil and gas reserves faster.

   
NVIDIA Announces Third Quarter Fiscal 2009 Earnings Conference Call
SANTA CLARA, CA—OCTOBER 28, 2008—NVIDIA (Nasdaq: NVDA) will host a conference call to discuss its financial results for the third quarter of its fiscal year 2009 on Thursday, November 6, 2008 at 2:00 PM Pacific Time. The Company's prepared remarks will be followed by a question and answer period, which will be limited to questions from financial analysts and institutional investors.

   
NVIDIA GPUs Deliver “GRAPHICS PLUS” Features to new ASUS Gaming Pc
SANTA CLARA, CA—OCTOBER 22, 2008—When ASUS selected the NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 280 GPU for its new CG6155 extreme gaming machine, it wasn’t simply because of its raw graphics horsepower.

   
New Asus Notebooks Take Gaming To The Next Level With NVIDIA GPUs
SANTA CLARA, CA—OCTOBER 22, 2008—Notebook gamers now have two new machines from ASUS armed with enough GPU firepower to play the latest generation of PC games.

   
World’s Leading Motherboard Manufacturers Turn to NVIDIA SLI for New Intel Bloomfield Platforms
SANTA CLARA, CA—OCTOBER 21, 2008—NVIDIA Corporation today announced that the world’s preeminent motherboard manufacturers, ASUS, EVGA, MSI, Gigabyte, and DFI, have all licensed NVIDIA® SLI® technology for their new lineup of motherboards designed to work with Intel Bloomfield CPUs and X58 chipsets.

   
New NVIDIA Motherboard GPUs Pack Big Punch In A Small Package
SANTA CLARA, CA—OCTOBER 20, 2008—NVIDIA’s engineering team was given a challenge: deliver a desktop GPU which integrates full system I/O and discrete-level performance in one-half the size of previous integrated graphics solutions.

   
NVIDIA Introduces NVIDIA Quadro CX - The Accelerator For Adobe Creative Suite 4
SANTA CLARA, CA—OCTOBER 16, 2008—NVIDIA today introduced its new accelerator for Adobe® Creative Suite® 4 software, the NVIDIA® Quadro® CX. This new GPU provides creative professionals with a faster, better, more reliable way to maximize their creativity.

   
NVIDIA Introduces Industry-Changing, Highly Integrated GPU
SANTA CLARA, CA—OCTOBER 15, 2008—Demand for better visual computing performance continues to grow as more and more applications tap the massively parallel processing power of the graphics processing unit (GPU) for more than just graphics.

   
NVIDIA Announces Closure of U.S. Department of Justice Investigation Regarding Possible Antitrust Violations
SANTA CLARA, CA—OCTOBER 13, 2008—NVIDIA Corporation (Nasdaq: NVDA) today announced that the San Francisco Office of the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has formally notified NVIDIA that the DOJ investigation into potential antitrust violations related to graphics processing units and cards has been closed. No specific allegations were made against the Company during the investigation.

   
NVIDIA Announces Strategic Partnership with MotionDSP
SANTA CLARA, CA—SEPTEMBER 25, 2008—NVIDIA Corporation today announced a strategic partnership with MotionDSP, an emerging leader in digital video software applications and a new NVIDIA® CUDA™ ecosystem partner.

   
NVIDIA GPUs Power A Creative Revolution With Adobe Creative Suite 4
SANTA CLARA, CA—SEPTEMBER 24, 2008—NVIDIA today announced that Adobe will natively support its graphics processing units (GPUs) in their newly announced Adobe® Creative Suite® 4. Adobe is the latest visual computing company to grab on to the massively parallel processing power of NVIDIA GPUs for more than just rendering pixels to the screen.

   
NVIDIA GeForce Power Pack Crosses Million Download Milestone In Less Than Two Weeks
SANTA CLARA, CA—SEPTEMBER 23, 2008—Graphics is more than just fast frame rates. And with the adoption of NVIDIA CUDA™ technology, developers can use the power of NVIDIA® GeForce® GPUs in ways never before possible.

   
NVIDIA Announces Workforce Reduction
SANTA CLARA, CA—SEPTEMBER 18, 2008—NVIDIA Corporation (Nasdaq: NVDA) today announced a workforce reduction to allow for continued investment in strategic growth areas. As a result, NVIDIA expects to eliminate approximately 360 positions worldwide, or about 6.5 percent of the Company’s global workforce. The reduction is expected to be completed by the end of the third quarter of fiscal 2009 ending October 26, 2008. NVIDIA will provide employees affected by this reduction with severance packages, counseling, and job placement services.

   
Scicomp Accelerates Market Leading Derivative Pricing Software With NVIDIA CUDA
SANTA CLARA, CA—SEPTEMBER 16, 2008—Trading in over-the-counter financial derivatives is a high-risk, high-pressure venture. SciComp, an Austin, Texas-based company, has a high-tech derivatives software solution to shorten the development time and accelerate the performance of Monte Carlo pricing models. The company has enhanced SciFinance®, its flagship product, to deliver accurate NVIDIA® CUDA™-enabled derivatives pricing models that run up to 100 times faster than serial code.

   
NVIDIA Pioneers New Hybrid Graphics In Notebooks From Sony, Fujitsu Siemens, And BenQ
SANTA CLARA, CA—September 11, 2008—Notebook PC makers and users desire the realism and performance of a discrete graphics processing unit (GPU), but they still demand maximum battery life.

   
NVIDIA And Opera Team To Accelerate The Full Web On Mobile Devices
SANTA CLARA, CA—SEPTEMBER 9, 2008—Browsing the Internet on a mobile device will take a leap forward with today's announcement that NVIDIA Corporation (Nasdaq: NVDA) and Opera Software (OSE: OPERA) are collaborating to bring the full desktop Web-browsing experience, including support for JavaScript, accelerated vector graphics, and video content, to smartphones and mobile Internet devices.

   
NVIDIA Announces Upcoming Schedule Of Events With The Financial Community
SANTA CLARA, CA─AUGUST 27, 2008─NVIDIA Corporation (Nasdaq: NVDA) today announced that it will participate in the following upcoming financial conferences:

   
NVIDIA and CGSociety Announce Winners of NVArt
NVISION 08, SAN JOSE, CA—AUGUST 25, 2008─NVIDIA and CGSociety today announced the winners of the third NVArt digital art competition.

   
NVIDIA GeForce 9-Series GPUs Now As Low As $59
NVIDIA continues to offer consumers more choice with the addition today of the GeForce 9400 GT. The GeForce 9400 GT delivers unsurpassed value by enabling end users to enjoy gaming, HD video, enhanced visual effects, and smoother Vista performance for retail prices as low as $59.

   
NVIDIA Achieves Monumental Folding@Home Milestone With Cuda
SANTA CLARA, CA—AUGUST 26, 2008—NVIDIA GPUs are contributing over 1 petaflop[1] of processing power to Stanford University’s Folding@home distributed computing application as of last week, according to the statistics published by Stanford.

   
NVIDIA Physx Technology To Power New Game From Futuremark Games Studio
NVISION 08—SANTA CLARA, CA—AUGUST 26, 2008—NVIDIA Corporation today announced that Futuremark Games Studio has selected NVIDIA® PhysX™ technology for its upcoming first-person shooter game, Shattered Horizon™, which was officially unveiled last week at the Leipzig Games Convention in Germany.

   
NVIDIA Cuda Delivers 446% Speed Increase To Pegasys Video Processing Solution
NVISION 2008—SAN JOSE, CA—AUGUST 25, 2008— Today, at the NVISION® 2008 conference, NVIDIA Corporation in conjunction with Pegasys Inc., makers of TMPGEnc 4.0 XPress multi-format video encoding software, showcased a technology demonstration to optimize video processing with the massively parallel architecture of the GPU.

   
MEDIA ALERT:
NVIDIA will demonstrate truly immersive three-dimensional gaming today at NVISION 08 in San Jose, Calif. Gamers are invited to experience the hottest new PC games on 12 systems featuring NVIDIA GeForce Stereoscopic 3D technology.

   
How Do You Cram A Black Hole Into A GPU? Find Out At NVISION 08
SANTA CLARA, CA—AUGUST 21, 2008—Just as a black hole pulls everything toward it, the NVISION® 08 event in San Jose next week is pulling in experts and practitioners in the field from all over the world.


Press Releases

   
NVIDIA Announces Strategic Partnership with MotionDSP
SANTA CLARA, CA—SEPTEMBER 25, 2008—NVIDIA Corporation today announced a strategic partnership with MotionDSP, an emerging leader in digital video software applications and a new NVIDIA® CUDA™ ecosystem partner.