LONDON — JANUARY 6th, 2004 — NVIDIA Corporation (Nasdaq: NVDA), the worldwide leader in visual processing solutions, today announced that its NVIDIA nForce™3 media and communications processors (MCPs) — which have been lauded by major industry publications and technology web sites for their stability and performance — fully support the new AMD Athlon64 Processor 3400+, announced earlier today.



“Our close working relationship with AMD has allowed us to design NVIDIA nForce3 as a scalable architecture that can take full advantage of AMD’s current and upcoming product roadmap,” said Drew Henry, general manager of platform products at NVIDIA. “The new Athlon64 Processor 3400+ extends AMD’s performance lead in the desktop PC market, and is a perfect match to our entire line of NVIDIA nForce3 MCPs, including our upcoming NVIDIA nForce3 250GB MCPs, which feature the industry’s first native Gigabit Ethernet solution.”



The NVIDIA nForce3 MCPs integrate hardware and software technologies that expand PC desktop, gaming and digital media functionality. By providing built-in connections for high-speed Gigabit networks, Serial ATA disk controllers, up to eight USB 2.0 ports, and integrated RAID solutions, the NVIDIA nForce3 MCPs deliver accelerated performance for multiple computing environments. All NVIDIA nForce3 MCPs support the robust NVIDIA® ForceWare™ Unified Software Environment (USE), which provides enhanced functionality and performance, including utilities for monitoring system performance, networking configurations, audio environments and more.



NVIDIA has a full family of NVIDIA nForce MCPs for both 64-bit and 32-bit desktop PC markets, including NVIDIA nForce3 Professional for the 1P and 2P workstation and professional segments, NVIDIA nForce3 Go for the mobile notebook market, and NVIDIA nForce2 for the mainstream computing markets.



PC systems and motherboards based on the NVIDIA nForce MCPs are currently available from leading manufacturers, including: ABIT Computer Corp., AOpen, ASUSTeK Computer Inc., Biostar Microtech Int’l Corp., Chaintech Computer Co. Ltd., DFI, EPoX International Inc., Giga-Byte Technology, Jetway Information Co. Ltd., Leadtek, MSI, Shuttle Computer Group, Inc., Soltek Computer Inc. and XFX.