NVIDIA NFORCE3 PROFESSIONAL NOW IN VOLUME PRODUCTION
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LONDON - JUNE 30th, 2003 - NVIDIA Corporation (Nasdaq: NVDA), the worldwide leader in visual processing solutions, today announced that the NVIDIA nForce(tm)3 Professional, the company's first single-chip, core-logic solution for professional computing environments, is now in volume production.
ASUSTeK Computer Inc. a world leader in motherboard engineering and design has commenced shipping its new SK8N motherboard, featuring the NVIDIA nForce3 Pro 150 platform processor, to distribution channels and system integrators worldwide.
"In targeting the professional workstation market, NVIDIA has once again created a brand new opportunity for the industry," said Joe Hsieh, director of ASUS motherboard business division at ASUSTeK. "With its advanced features, latency-reduced architecture and awesome performance, our new SK8N motherboard, featuring the new NVIDIA nForce3 Pro, is attractive to professional workstation users who are looking for a powerful and future-proofed solution."
Optimised for the new 64-bit AMD Opteron(tm) processor, NVIDIA nForce3 Professional platform processors provide a compatible, stable and reliable computing platform for professional workstation users who wish to exploit the benefits of both 32-bit and 64-bit computing environments. The NVIDIA nForce3 Professional platform processors incorporate advanced technology solutions, including enterprise-class networking, fault tolerant storage designs and optimisations for NVIDIA Quadro® workstation graphics solutions
- that are currently supported by an industry-leading selection of certified software applications. All NVIDIA nForce3 Professional-based systems and motherboards also utilise the NVIDIA® Unified Driver Architecture (UDA), a single stable system image for simplified deployment and upgrades in the enterprise environment. The NVIDIA commitment to product longevity further ensures IT investment protection.
The ASUS SK8N motherboard will be available in early July. Full workstation solutions from a variety of leading workstation system integrators will be available in late July.
About NVIDIA
NVIDIA Corporation is a market leader in visual computing technology dedicated to creating products that enhance the interactive experience on consumer and professional computing platforms. Its graphics and communications processors have broad market reach and are incorporated into a wide variety of computing platforms, including consumer digital-media PCs, enterprise PCs, professional workstations, digital content creation systems, notebook PCs, military navigation systems and video games consoles. NVIDIA is headquartered in Santa Clara, California and employs more than 1,400 people worldwide. For more information, visit the Company's Web site at http://www.nvidia.co.uk.
Certain statements in this press release, including the statements relating to the Company's performance expectations for NVIDIA's family of products and expectations of continued revenue growth, are forward-looking statements that are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause results to be materially different than expectations. Such risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, manufacturing and other delays relating to new products, difficulties in the fabrication process and dependence of the Company on third-party manufacturers, general industry trends including cyclical trends in the PC and semiconductor industries, the impact of competitive products and pricing alternatives, market acceptance of the Company's new products, and the Company's dependence on third-party developers and publishers. Investors are advised to read the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K and quarterly reports on Form 10-Q filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, particularly those sections entitled "Certain Business Risks," for a fuller discussion of these and other risks and uncertainties.