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NEW WAVE OF PCI EXPRESS NOTEBOOKS LAUNCH WITH NVIDIA® GEFORCE™ GO 6 GPUS

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Acer, Asus, Gericom, Medion, Sony, Toshiba and Others Offer Leading-Edge Technology With the Latest Crop of PCI Express Notebooks Available Immediately

LONDON — FEBRUARY 8TH, 2005 — NVIDIA Corporation (Nasdaq: NVDA), a worldwide leader in graphics and digital media processors, today announced the immediate availability of the GeForce Go 6600 and 6200 graphics processing units (GPUs) in the newest generation of PCI Express-based notebooks. Notebooks combining the graphics muscle of the GeForce Go 6 GPU series and the latest in Intel Centrino Mobile technology (codenamed Sonoma) are available for purchase now from Aopen, Arima, Asus, Clevo, Compal, ECS, FIC, Gericom, Medion, Mitac, MSI, Sharp, Sony, Toshiba, Twinhead, Uniwill and Wistron.

In addition to Gericom and Medion, GeForce Go 6 GPU powered notebooks will also be made available across Europe through Adam Reisig GmbH (Germany), AJP (UK), Aquarius (Russia), Enface (Italy), Evesham Technology Ltd. (UK), iRU (Russia), MV (UK) and Rover (Russia).

“The NVIDIA GeForce Go 6600 GPU delivers advanced graphics and multimedia performance that enhances the mobile computing experience for our Tecra Customers,” said Taro Hiyama, vice president of marketing, Digital Products Division, Toshiba America Information Systems, Inc. “The inclusion of the GeForce Go 6600 GPU and other features further differentiates the Tecra and allows Toshiba to continue delivering leading-edge notebook computers.”

More GeForce Go 6 series notebooks from Acer, Medion and other OEMS are expected to be available by the end of March 2005. These leading OEMs and ODMs have all selected the GeForce Go 6 series of GPUs to create PCI Express-based notebooks that are characterised by dramatically higher levels of graphics and video performance than previously seen.

For a complete list of Web sites for NVIDIA mobile partners please visit http://www.nvidia.co.uk

About the GeForce Go 6 Series
The GeForce Go 6 mobile GPU series offers a variety of multimedia features for mainstream notebooks, including the industry’s only solution compatible with the latest version of Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0 Shader Model 3.0 and NVIDIA PureVideo™ technology, the industry’s only embedded video processor for HD multimedia content. All NVIDIA mobile GPUs are completely compatible with Intel Centrino mobile technology, featuring integrated wireless connectivity with IEEE 802.11a/b/g networks.