Taipei – August 1, 2004 Biostar Microtech Int'l Corp., one of the world leading motherboard and mini PC providers, is glad to announce its partnership with NVIDIA now is official formed. Ongoing with its successful collaboration of NVIDIA nForce™ based motherboards, Biostar now expands its product line with a wide series of NVIDA GeForce™ VPU based graphics card to satisfy the market demands and expectations for excellent visual solutions on wide range of computing platforms and applications.

Biostar has gained numerous worldwide recognitions by providing a series of performance mini PC and motherboards that support NVIDIA nForce 3 150, NVIDIA nForce2 400 and NVIDIA nForce2 SPP. Moreover, with NVIDIA's full support, Biostar now presents a whole new series of graphics card supporting NVIDIA's latest GeForce VPU with reliable quality and outstanding performance for extreme gamers and mainstream users.

"Biostar is committed and will be concentrated to marketing NVIDIA's reliable, stable and compatible visual solutions. Combined with Biostar's cutting-edge technology and long-term experience in computing industry, Biostar will be dedicating most of all our efforts and attention in marketing and promoting NVIDIA's product line globally henceforward bring end users the best visual computing solutions with great value and the most powerful performance," said Paul Wang, General Manager of Biostar Microtech Int'l Corp.

Biostar graphics card based on the NVIDIA GeForce FX5900, GeForce FX5700, GeForce FX5200, GeForce MX4000, GeForce4 MX 440-8X, GeForce2 MX 400 have already shipped worldwide and are available on the market.

Series GeForce FX series GeForce MX series
VPU GeForce
FX 5900 XT GeForce
FX 5700 LE GeForce
5200 GeForce
MX 4000 GeForce4
MX 440-8X GeForce2
MX 400
Memory size 128MB 256 / 128MB 256 / 128 / 64MB 128 / 64MB 128 / 64MB 64 MB
DVI Yes Yes Yes* No No No
TV-out Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No
Interface AGP 8X AGP 8X AGP 8X AGP 8X AGP 8X AGP 4X

About Biostar Microtech Int'l Corp.
Since its establishment in 1986, the BIOSTAR GROUP has become a major motherboard supplier to the PC industry in Taiwan. In order to pursue continuous growth, BIOSTAR has invested heavily in acquiring the physical and human resources to excel research and development. In every endeavor, BIOSTAR has sought to enhance product quality and expand its range of available products.
In addition to producing quality motherboards, BIOSTAR also carries out mini PC system – iDEQ series – the intelligent Desktop trends for the near future and IA product. A wider product range provides buyers with choices they want and need. With a constant emphasis on quality, BIOSTAR seeks to offer products with the highest price-performance ratio in the industry.

Biostar and the Biostar logo are registered trademarks of Biostar Microtech Int'l Corp. NVIDIA, GeForce and nForce are registered trademarks and/or trademarks of NVIDIA Corporation in the United States and other countries. Other trademarks, registered trademarks and/or service marks, noted as such or otherwise, are the property of their respective owners.