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Monday November 16, 9:20 am Eastern Time
Company Press Release
Vanta Initiative From NVIDIA Targets
Enterprise Market
NVIDIA rolls out New Cost Effective, High
Performance 3D/2D Processor and Business 3D
Developer Program
LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 16, 1998--NVIDIA(tm) Corporation
announced today
its Vanta initiative aimed at bringing 3D graphics to the enterprise
market in 1999 and beyond.
This initiative includes a new graphics processor, the NVIDIA
Vanta(tm), based on the
award-winning RIVA TNT(tm) core technology, and the NVIDIA Vanta
business developer
program. This program is designed to catalyze the use of the 3D medium
by corporate software
developers and accelerate the adoption of 3D onto the mainstream
corporate desktop PC. 
``In the not too distant future 3D functionality will be as ubiquitous
and invisible in business
applications as color is today,'' said Dr. Jon Peddie, president of
Jon Peddie Associates
(Tiburon, CA), the leading market research firm covering the graphics
and digital media
technology markets. ``Today leadership companies like Intel,
Microsoft, Oracle and others are
putting in the foundations for this inevitable evolution. NVIDIA has
committed to this vision
with their Vanta initiative, which will be an enabling mechanism in
the development of a new
class of business solutions.'' 
``We view 3D as a medium that greatly improves the communication of
information. Given the
fact that every business PC is 3D capable in 1999, we have a great
opportunity to deliver a 3D
processing solution for this new market,'' said Jen-Hsun Huang,
president and CEO of NVIDIA. 
NVIDIA Vanta 
The NVIDIA Vanta is a cost-effective, highly integrated 3D/2D graphics
processor designed for
the Windows 2000 platform. Leveraging the award-winning RIVA TNT core
technology,
NVIDIA Vanta delivers breakthrough 3D and 2D graphics performance. In
addition to its
outstanding graphics capabilities, the NVIDIA Vanta provides complete
support for video,
software and hardware DVD playback, flat panel display, and support
for system management
standards for the 1999 PC platform. 
The Vanta Business Developer Program: Educate, Enable & Evangelize 
The Vanta Developer program is targeted at business application
developers and IT decision
makers. It is designed to: educate developers and IT professional
about the value that 3D
graphics can add to business communications; enable developers with
the suitable hardware and
software for development and implementation; and evangelize 3D
applications and
implementations through pilot programs as well as a newsletter and
dedicated web site. In the
spring of 1999, NVIDIA is hosting business developer workshops on the
development of
corporate business applications. Workshop participants will receive a
free Software
Development Kit (SDK) that will provide source code examples,
documentation, and
development hardware. This will give developers their first
opportunity to get hands-on
experience with the NVIDIA Vanta. Developers can register on NVIDIA's
website at
www.nvidia.com
 after January 1. 
NVIDIA PROCESSORS 
The RIVA family of 3D/2D processors, the RIVA 128(tm), RIVA 128ZX(tm)
and the RIVA
TNT(tm), is the first family of high performance processors for the
performance mainstream PC
market. The RIVA processors utilize a 128-bit pipeline to support the
computational throughput
required for current and future graphically intense applications. The
NVIDIA Vanta(tm) 3D/2D
processor is the first in a family of 3D processors designed for the
enterprise PC market. Based
on the award winning RIVA TNT architecture, the NVIDIA Vanta processor
is designed for
Windows 2000 and the burgeoning market for enterprise visualization
applications. By
leveraging its graphics technology and massive gate counts, all NVIDIA
processors are able to
deliver stunningly realistic, high frame rate 3D, along with benchmark
winning 2D, VGA and
video acceleration in single chip solutions. NVIDIA processors are
optimized for both
Direct3D(tm) and OpenGL(tm). 
NVIDIA Corporation 
NVIDIA Corporation, rated the most influential 3D processor company in
the PC industry by PC
Magazinei, designs, develops, markets and sells high-performance 3D
processors for personal
computers. NVIDIA(tm) is the leading provider of 3D processors meeting
the demands of the
performance mainstream and corporate mainstream PC markets. Corporate
headquarters are in
California: NVIDIA Corporation, 3535 Monroe Street, Santa Clara, Ca:
408-615-2500
.
http://www.nvidia.com
. 
Editor Notes: Please note that the recommended way of writing NVIDIA,
RIVA 128, RIVA
128ZX and the RIVA TNT is all CAPITALS. 
NVIDIA, the NVIDIA logo , RIVA TNT and the NVIDIA Vanta are trademarks
of NVIDIA
Corporation. RIVA, RIVA 128 and RIVA 128ZX are trademarks of NVIDIA
Corporation and
SGS-THOMSON Microelectronics. Other notations of TM and (R) are
trademarks of their
respective owners. 
(1) Source: PC Magazine, September 22, 1998 
Contact: 
     NVIDIA Corporation
     Derek Perez, 
408/615-2630
     Email: 
dpe...@nvidia.com


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