NVidia e Pentium 4

NVIDIA GPU Optimized for upcoming Intel Pentium 4processor

NVIDIA's GeForce2 Ultra is the GPU of choice for Intel Press Evaluation Program

SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 15, 2000--NVIDIA® Corporation (NASDAQ: NVDA - news) today announced that its GeForce2 Ultra graphics processing unit (GPU) was chosen by Intel® for the Pentium®4 press evaluation program. Combining the staggering performance of NVIDIA's GeForce2 Ultra with the latest Detonator 3 software, NVIDIA provides outstanding support for the Pentium 4 processor's new instruction set (SSE2). In support of its relationship with Intel, NVIDIA will be participating in the Pentium 4 processor independent software vendor's pavilion at Comdex.

``By combining the Pentium 4 processor's new instruction set with the power of NVIDIA's GeForce2 architecture, end users will experience a stunning new level of visual realism and interactivity on the PC not attained on any other computing platform,'' said David Fair, Intel Visualization Technologies Initiative Manager.

``NVIDIA has invested significant engineering resources in optimizing our software for Intel's new Pentium 4 processor,'' said Dan Vivoli, senior vice president of marketing for NVIDIA Corporation. ``With these new optimizations, NVIDIA looks forward to bringing an even higher level of performance and quality to end-users.