NVIDIA Announces GeForce 9M Notebook GPUs - Hybrid SLI Ready

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NVIDIA Addresses Global Demand for Better Visual Experiences on the Notebook PC

TAIPEI, Taiwan, June 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/-- COMPUTEX 2008 -- As the
global demand for better visual experiences makes its way into the notebook
market, NVIDIA Corporation continues to address that demand with the
introduction of a new line-up of notebook GPUs, the NVIDIA(R) GeForce(R) 9M
Series of graphics processors, and a new graphics innovation, NVIDIA Hybrid
SLI(R) technology. These new technologies enable customers to optimize
their notebooks to power today's visual applications, such as: the latest
operating systems, photo editing, mapping software, games, and HD movies.
Considered one of the most important processors inside the notebook PC, and
perhaps the most important, an NVIDIA GPU enables a completely flexible,
scalable, and high-definition entertainment platform.

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"Beginning this summer, GeForce 9M GPUs and Hybrid SLI, paired with AMD
and Intel CPUs, will enable a new breed of notebooks," said Jeff Fisher,
senior vice president of the GPU business at NVIDIA. "These new notebooks
will be optimized to deliver a visual experience and raw computing
performance that traditional cookie-cutter notebooks with integrated
graphics simply can't touch."

With the launch of the GeForce 9M Series of notebook GPUs, NVIDIA has
once again engineered the world's fastest notebook GPUs, designed for
running today's graphically intensive games, 3D applications and HD movies
at extreme resolutions. In addition, this new GPU features a multi-core
architecture which will not only speed up entertainment applications, but
will also speed up today's lifestyle applications, like video encoding from
a PC to a small personal media device, where the speed up in the video
conversion is up to 5x faster with the GeForce 9M family GPUs."

In addition, the new GeForce 9M notebook GPUs enable the world's first
notebooks with Hybrid SLI technology. The new technology enables two NVIDIA
GPUs, one low-power and one high-performance, to work cooperatively in the
same PC to deliver two features -- GeForce Boost and HybridPower(TM). These
features deliver more performance from both GPUs for visual computing when
needed, or save power by switching to the low-power GPU when not. Hybrid
SLI gives users the quality and performance benefits of a high-performance
GPU without sacrificing battery life.


The NVIDIA GeForce 9M family of GPUs also feature:
-- A new graphics engine that delivers up to 40% faster performance than
the previous generation GeForce notebook GPUs and 10x the performance
of integrated graphics solutions
-- New PureVideo(R) HD video processing features for improved color and
contrast
-- Full support for the latest Blu-ray advancements including BD-Live and
dual-stream video playback
-- Extensive multi-display connectivity with support for all the latest
display standards including DVI, HDMI 1.3, Display Port 1.1, and VGA
-- Support for the new MXM version 3.0 graphics module specification

"With the recent addition of advanced features to Blu-ray and the
complexity of DirectX 10 games like Crysis, PC users need more graphics
processing performance than today's generic integrated graphics can
deliver," said Rene Haas, general manager of the notebook business at
NVIDIA. "The new GeForce 9M series meets this need while also delivering
processing muscle for applications beyond gaming and graphics."

The new GeForce 9M GPUs will power the visual computing experience in
over a hundred notebook models beginning this summer. For more information,
please visit http://www.nvidia.com.

About NVIDIA

NVIDIA (Nasdaq: NVDA) is the world leader in visual computing
technologies and the inventor of the GPU, a high-performance processor
which generates breathtaking, interactive graphics on workstations,
personal computers, game consoles, and mobile devices. NVIDIA serves the
entertainment and consumer market with its GeForce(R) products, the
professional design and visualization market with its Quadro(R) products,
and the high-performance computing market with its Tesla(TM) products.
NVIDIA is headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif. and has offices throughout
Asia, Europe, and the Americas. NVIDIA's inaugural NVISION 08 conference
will be held August 25-27, 2008 in San Jose, Calif. For more information,
visit http://www.nvidia.com and http://www.nvision08.com.