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81-647: 2011-04-06: United Kingdom 2011-04-26: Canada, United States 2011-05-07: France, Sweden The Asus Eee Pad Transformer TF101 is a 2-in-1 detachable tablet developed by Asus that runs the Android operating system. It is the first tablet in the Asus Transformer Pad series. The Eee Pad Transformer features a 10.1-inch (260 mm) display, an Nvidia Tegra 2 dual-core chip, 1 GB of RAM , and 16 or 32 GB of storage. The tablet initially launched with Android 3.1 , nicknamed "Honeycomb", but
162-571: A 120 Hz refresh rate capability and a 16:9 aspect ratio , versus the Steam Deck's panel that only manages 800p and 60 Hz with a 16:10 aspect ratio . The Ultimate Force ( TUF ) is a brand used by ASUS since about 2010. The brand is for Asus affordable, mid-range gaming products. Asus released its first sound card, the Xonar DX, in February 2008. The Xonar DX was able to emulate
243-522: A collaboration with the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard related to the entire suite of Nvidia's AI -powered healthcare software suite called Clara, that includes Parabricks and MONAI . Following U.S. Department of Commerce regulations which placed an embargo on exports to China of advanced microchips, which went into effect in October 2022, Nvidia saw its data center chip added to
324-577: A day later. UK tablets received it on 26 February 2012. The Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime was announced by Asus in November 2011 as the successor to the Eee Pad Transformer. A teaser video was released by Asus on 19 October 2011, showing a slimmer design and a rear camera with LED flash. The tablet features a quad-core Nvidia Tegra 3 (Kal-El) chip by Nvidia , 10-inch display, micro-HDMI port, SD card slot, 14.5-hour battery life, and has
405-421: A driver unless it is approved by Apple," suggesting a possible rift between the two companies. By January 2019, with still no sign of the enabling web drivers, Apple Insider weighed into the controversy with a claim that Apple management "doesn't want Nvidia support in macOS". The following month, Apple Insider followed this up with another claim that Nvidia support was abandoned because of "relational issues in
486-709: A joint venture with Gigabyte Technology . On 5 June 2007, Asus announced the launch of the Eee PC at Computex . On 9 September 2007, Asus indicated support for Blu-ray , announcing the release of a BD-ROM/DVD writer PC drive, BC-1205PT. ASUS subsequently released several Blu-ray based notebooks. In January 2008, Asus began a major restructuring of its operations, splitting into three independent companies: Asus (focused on applied first-party branded computers and electronics); Pegatron (focused on OEM manufacturing of motherboards and components); and Unihan Corporation (focused on non-PC manufacturing such as cases and molding). In
567-535: A keyboard, becomes a Windows 8 device, which it called the Transformer Book Trio. The keyboard can be attached to a third-party monitor, creating a desktop-like experience. Asus is also known for the following tablet computer lines: From its launch in October 2007 and until the line was discontinued in January 2013, the Eee PC netbook garnered numerous awards, including Forbes Asia's Product of
648-671: A laptop that uses the Android operating system; the device was ultimately scrapped out of concerns that the smartbook market was shrinking. In April, further details of a tablet PC in the Asus Eee line emerged, with Asus announcing that the device would support 3G connectivity and would be powered by an ARM processor, followed by reports in July that two models would be produced, running Android instead of Windows Embedded Compact 7 . Both models were previously showcased at Computex 2010, although
729-477: A motherboard prototype for using an Intel 486 , but it had to do so without access to the actual processor. When Asus approached Intel to request a processor to test it, Intel itself had a problem with its own 486 motherboard. Asus solved Intel's problem and it turned out that Asus' motherboard worked correctly without the need for further modification. Since then, Asus was receiving Intel engineering samples ahead of its competitors. In September 2005, Asus released
810-694: A new headquarters in the form of two giant triangle-shaped buildings on the other side of San Tomas Expressway (to the west of its existing headquarters complex). The company selected triangles as its design theme. As Huang explained in a blog post, the triangle is "the fundamental building block of computer graphics". In 2014, Nvidia ported the Valve games Portal and Half Life 2 to its Nvidia Shield tablet as Lightspeed Studio. Since 2014, Nvidia has diversified its business focusing on three markets: gaming, automotive electronics, and mobile devices. That same year, Nvidia also prevailed in litigation brought by
891-445: A settlement, in which it would reimburse owners of the affected laptops for repairs or, in some cases, replacement. On January 10, 2011, Nvidia signed a six-year, $ 1.5 billion cross-licensing agreement with Intel, ending all litigation between the two companies. In November 2011, after initially unveiling it at Mobile World Congress , Nvidia released its ARM -based system on a chip for mobile devices, Tegra 3 . Nvidia claimed that
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#1732787197545972-424: A slightly modified keyboard layout in addition to support of accented characters. The Shift key and Enter key have been made smaller to accommodate two additional keys. The Transformer originally ran a modified version of Android 3.1 Honeycomb , but has since been updated to Android 4.0.3 . The on-screen navigation keys (home, back, menu) have been skinned to resemble the standard Android phone keys. The tablet
1053-767: A special edition of the Sennheiser PC350 headset. In August 2010, ASUS released the Xonar DG sound card targeted at budget buyers and offering 5.1 surround sound support, 105 dB SNR rating, support for Dolby headphone and GX 2.5 support for emulating EAX 5.0 technology. Nvidia Nvidia Corporation ( / ɛ n ˈ v ɪ d i ə / , en- VID -ee-ə ) is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California , and incorporated in Delaware . It
1134-539: A tablet screen, known as Padfone series. The product lineups are: Most of Asus' smartphones are powered by Intel Atom processors with the exceptions of a few Padfone series and some ZenFone 2 models that use Qualcomm Snapdragon , though later phones in the series now either use Qualcomm Snapdragon or MediaTek systems-on-chip. Seventh Generation (2020) Eighth Generation (2021) Ninth Generation (2022) Tenth Generation (2023) Eleventh Generation (2024) Discontinued series previously offered by Asus includes
1215-959: A thickness of 8.3 mm. The US release date was 19 December 2011. In March 2012, the Asus Transformer Pad Infinity was announced, which has an upgraded screen resolution of 1920 x 1200 pixels. Asus ASUSTeK Computer Inc. ( / ˈ eɪ s uː s / , / eɪ ˈ s uː s / , / ɑː ˈ -/ , / ə ˈ -/ ; stylized as ASUSTeK or ASUS ) is a Taiwanese multinational computer, phone hardware and electronics manufacturer headquartered in Beitou District , Taipei , Taiwan . Its products include desktop computers , laptops , netbooks , mobile phones , networking equipment, monitors, Wi-Fi routers , projectors , motherboards , graphics cards , optical storage , multimedia products, peripherals, wearables , servers , workstations and tablet PCs. The company
1296-546: A vision of the future which was so compelling that Huang decided to leave LSI and become the chief executive officer of their new startup . In 1993, the three co-founders envisioned that the ideal trajectory for the forthcoming wave of computing would be in the realm of accelerated computing, specifically in graphics-based processing. This path was chosen due to its unique ability to tackle challenges that eluded general-purpose computing methods. As Huang later explained: "We also observed that video games were simultaneously one of
1377-481: A wide margin. Due to the success of its products, Nvidia won the contract to develop the graphics hardware for Microsoft 's Xbox game console, which earned Nvidia a $ 200 million advance. However, the project took many of its best engineers away from other projects. In the short term this did not matter, and the GeForce2 GTS shipped in the summer of 2000. In December 2000, Nvidia reached an agreement to acquire
1458-514: A write-down of approximately $ 200 million on its first-quarter revenue, after reporting that certain mobile chipsets and GPUs produced by the company had "abnormal failure rates" due to manufacturing defects. Nvidia, however, did not reveal the affected products. In September 2008, Nvidia became the subject of a class action lawsuit over the defects, claiming that the faulty GPUs had been incorporated into certain laptop models manufactured by Apple Inc. , Dell , and HP . In September 2010, Nvidia reached
1539-710: Is a software and fabless company which designs and supplies graphics processing units (GPUs), application programming interfaces (APIs) for data science and high-performance computing , as well as system on a chip units (SoCs) for the mobile computing and automotive market. Nvidia is also a dominant supplier of artificial intelligence (AI) hardware and software. Nvidia's professional line of GPUs are used for edge-to-cloud computing and in supercomputers and workstations for applications in fields such as architecture, engineering and construction, media and entertainment, automotive, scientific research, and manufacturing design. Its GeForce line of GPUs are aimed at
1620-680: Is a brand used by ASUS since 2006, encompassing a range of computer hardware, personal computers, peripherals, and accessories. AMD graphics cards were marketed under the Arez brand due to the Nvidia 's GeForce Partner Program . In 2013 Asus launched the RAIDR Express, a PCI express-based RAID 0 SSD subsystem with two SSDs on one PCB. In January 2022, Asus announced the ROG Flow Z13 during ROG's CES 2022 launch event. Equipped with
1701-644: Is also an original equipment manufacturer (OEM). As of 2024, Asus is the world's fifth-largest personal computer vendor by unit sales. Asus has a primary listing on the Taiwan Stock Exchange under the ticker code 2357 and formerly had a secondary listing on the London Stock Exchange under the ticker code ASKD . The company is usually referred to as ASUS or Huáshuò in Chinese ( Chinese : 華碩 , literally "Eminence by
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#17327871975451782-399: Is bundled with MyNet, MyLibrary, MyCloud , Press Reader, MyDesktop and Polaris Office 3, for full document editing. The first software update was released by Asus on 16 April 2011. This updated the system with extra widgets for MyZine, which is a desktop widget shop, for weather, email, calendar, gallery, etc. It also added MyCloud , a remote desktop app. As of early June 2011, Android 3.1
1863-489: Is designed to improve the quality of multi-monitor and virtual reality rendering. Laptops that include these GPUs and are sufficiently thin – as of late 2017, under 0.8 inches (20 mm) – have been designated as meeting Nvidia's "Max-Q" design standard. In July 2016, Nvidia agreed to a settlement for a false advertising lawsuit regarding its GTX 970 model, as the models were unable to use all of their advertised 4 GB of VRAM due to limitations brought by
1944-599: Is known as the ZenFone series. Before the ZenFone line, Asus released feature phones such as the Asus v70 and smartphones running on Windows Mobile during the mid-2000s. First Generation (2014) Second Generation (2015) Third Generation (2016) Fourth Generation (2017) Fifth Generation (2018) Sixth Generation (2019) Additionally, Asus also produced some hybrid devices with smartphones that can be docked in
2025-520: Is the Vivo lineup consisting of laptops (VivoBooks), All-in-Ones (Vivo AiO), desktops (VivoPC), Stick PCs (VivoStick), Mini PCs (VivoMini), smartwatches (VivoWatch), computer mouse (VivoMouse) and tablets (VivoTab). Asus also launched many Android -based smartphones, predominantly with Intel rather than ARM processors and often with two sim slots. Asus is currently very influential in big mobile markets like India , China , and other Asian countries. It
2106-537: Is the best way to describe it. An hour of sushi and begging". In October 2023, it was reported that Nvidia had quietly begun designing ARM-based central processing units (CPUs) for Microsoft's Windows operating system with a target to start selling them in 2025. In January 2024, Forbes reported that Nvidia has increased its lobbying presence in Washington, D.C. as American lawmakers consider proposals to regulate artificial intelligence . From 2023 to 2024,
2187-776: Is thirty days from going out of business". Huang routinely began presentations to Nvidia staff with those words for many years. Nvidia sold about a million RIVA 128s in about four months and used the revenue to develop its next generation of products. In 1998, the release of the RIVA TNT solidified Nvidia's reputation for developing capable graphics adapters. Nvidia went public on January 22, 1999. Investing in Nvidia after it had already failed to deliver on its contract turned out to be Irimajiri's best decision as Sega's president. After Irimajiri left Sega in 2000, Sega sold its Nvidia stock for $ 15 million. In late 1999, Nvidia released
2268-840: The CUDA software platform and API that allows the creation of massively parallel programs which utilize GPUs. They are deployed in supercomputing sites around the world. In the late 2000s, Nvidia had moved into the mobile computing market, where it produces Tegra mobile processors for smartphones and tablets as well as vehicle navigation and entertainment systems. Its competitors include AMD , Intel , Qualcomm , and AI accelerator companies such as Cerebras and Graphcore . It also makes AI-powered software for audio and video processing (e.g., Nvidia Maxine ). Nvidia's offer to acquire Arm from SoftBank in September 2020 failed to materialize following extended regulatory scrutiny, leading to
2349-726: The EeeBook Series, K Series, X Series , E Series , Q Series, B Series, V Series, P Series, F Series , A Series, u2e Series and G Series. Two generations of the Nexus 7 , manufactured for and branded as Google , were announced on 27 June 2012 for release in July 2012. On 24 July 2013, Asus announced a successor to the Google Nexus 7 . Two days later, it was released. Asus has also been working with Microsoft in developing Windows 8 convertible tablets. In 2013, Asus revealed an Android-based tablet computer that, when attached to
2430-456: The GeForce 256 (NV10), its first product expressly marketed as a GPU, which was most notable for introducing onboard transformation and lighting (T&L) to consumer-level 3D hardware. Running at 120 MHz and featuring four-pixel pipelines, it implemented advanced video acceleration, motion compensation, and hardware sub-picture alpha blending. The GeForce outperformed existing products by
2511-561: The Netflix application. Asus originally stated the Eee Pad Transformer will receive the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich in mid-February 2012, but when mid-February came and no update was released, Asus said in a statement that they would delay the release until sometime in March, due to the software still having to go through approval from Google. On 23 February 2012, the 4.0.3 update rolled out to Taiwan Transformers with US tablets to get it
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2592-520: The triangle primitives preferred by its competitors. Then Microsoft introduced the DirectX platform, refused to support any other graphics software, and also announced that its graphics software ( Direct3D ) would support only triangles. Nvidia also signed a contract with Sega to build the graphics chip for the Dreamcast video game console and worked on the project for a year. Having bet on
2673-757: The ASUS EeePC", (the "Asus Eee Box" computer line was later renamed in 2010 to "ASUS EeeBox PC"). Essentio is a line of desktop PCs. As of December 2011 the line consisted of the CG Series (designed for gaming), the CM series (for entertainment and home use) and the CS and CP slimline series. Asus sells digital media receivers under the name ASUS O!Play. Asus produces the R700T GPS device, which incorporates Traffic Message Channel . Republic of Gamers ( ROG )
2754-518: The Android Open-Source Project, or support the ecosystem through products and services that will accelerate the availability of Android-based devices." On 1 June 2010, Asus spun off Pegatron Corp. In October 2010, Asus and Garmin announced that they would be ending their smartphone partnership as a result of Garmin deciding to exit the product category. The two companies had produced six Garmin-ASUS branded smartphones over
2835-465: The Chinese" ). According to the company website, the name ASUS originates from Pegasus , the winged horse of Greek mythology. Only the last four letters of the word were used to give the name a high position in alphabetical listings. As its marketing taglines , Asus has used Rock Solid. Heart Touching (2003–2009) and subsequently Inspiring Innovation Persistent Perfection (2009–2013). Since 2013,
2916-625: The Dreamcast. However, Irimajiri still believed in Huang, and "wanted to make Nvidia successful". Despite Nvidia's disappointing failure to deliver on its contract, Irimajiri somehow managed to convince Sega's management to invest $ 5 million into Nvidia. Years later, Huang explained that this was all the money Nvidia had left at the time, and that Irimajiri's "understanding and generosity gave us six months to live". In 1996, Huang laid off more than half of Nvidia's employees—then around 100—and focused
2997-781: The EAX 5.0 effects through the ASUS GX software while also supporting Open AL and DTS-connect. In July 2008 ASUS launched the Xonar D1, which offered largely similar features to the Xonar DX but connected to the motherboard through the PCI interface instead of the PCI-E ×1 connection of the Xonar DX. ASUS then released the Xonar HDAV 1.3, which was the first solution enabling loss-less HD audio bit streaming to AV receivers. In May 2009, Asus launched
3078-607: The Eee Pad was £379 (£429 with dock). An optional docking keyboard was available at launch. It features full QWERTY keys, touchpad, two USB 2.0 ports and one SD card reader as well as an additional battery that increases overall battery life from 9.5 to 16 hours. The USB ports support USB memory of any kind and also NTFS-formatted media with files larger than 4 GB. The SD card slot also supports NTFS-formatted media. The units marketed in Canada marked Canadian BI Lingual (CBIL) have
3159-584: The Essence ST sound card, targeted at high-end audiophiles, and featuring 124 dB SNR rating and precision audio clock tuning. In the same month, Asus refreshed the HDAV family by releasing the HDAV 1.3 slim, a card targeted for HTPC users offering similar functionality to HDAV 1.3 but in a smaller form. During Computex 2010, ASUS introduced its Xonar Xense, an audio bundle composed of the Xense sound card and
3240-475: The Nvidia A100 GPU accelerator. In July 2020, it was reported that Nvidia was in talks with SoftBank to buy Arm , a UK-based chip designer, for $ 32 billion. On September 1, 2020, Nvidia officially announced the GeForce 30 series based on the company's new Ampere microarchitecture. On September 13, 2020, Nvidia announced that they would buy Arm from SoftBank Group for $ 40 billion, subject to
3321-1102: The Nvidia user forum, a thread was started asking the company to update users when they would release web drivers for its cards installed on legacy Mac Pro machines up to mid-2012 5,1 running the macOS Mojave operating system 10.14. Web drivers are required to enable graphics acceleration and multiple display monitor capabilities of the GPU. On its Mojave update info website, Apple stated that macOS Mojave would run on legacy machines with ' Metal compatible ' graphics cards and listed Metal compatible GPUs, including some manufactured by Nvidia. However, this list did not include Metal compatible cards that currently work in macOS High Sierra using Nvidia-developed web drivers. In September, Nvidia responded, "Apple fully controls drivers for macOS. But if Apple allows, our engineers are ready and eager to help Apple deliver great drivers for macOS 10.14 (Mojave)." In October, Nvidia followed this up with another public announcement, "Apple fully controls drivers for macOS. Unfortunately, Nvidia currently cannot release
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3402-524: The UK, and further the groundbreaking work being done by the nation's researchers in critical healthcare and drug discovery." Also in October 2020, along with the release of the Nvidia RTX A6000, Nvidia announced it is retiring its workstation GPU brand Quadro, shifting its product name to Nvidia RTX for future products and the manufacturing to be Nvidia Ampere architecture -based. In August 2021,
3483-568: The Year for 2007, citing the accomplishments it made during the said period as well as during the previous five years. On January 5, 2007, Nvidia announced that it had completed the acquisition of PortalPlayer, Inc. In February 2008, Nvidia acquired Ageia , developer of PhysX , a physics engine and physics processing unit . Nvidia announced that it planned to integrate the PhysX technology into its future GPU products. In July 2008, Nvidia took
3564-416: The Year, Stuff Magazine's Gadget of the Year and Computer of the Year, NBC.com's Best Travel Gadget, Computer Shopper's Best Netbook of 2008, PC Pro's Hardware of the Year, PC World's Best Netbook, and DIME magazine's 2008 Trend Award Winner. Asus subsequently added several products to its Eee lineup, including: On 6 March 2009, Asus debuted its Eee Box B202, which PCMag saw as "the desktop equivalent of
3645-606: The chip featured the first-ever quad-core mobile CPU. In May 2011, it was announced that Nvidia had agreed to acquire Icera , a baseband chip making company in the UK, for $ 367 million. In January 2013, Nvidia unveiled the Tegra 4 , as well as the Nvidia Shield , an Android -based handheld game console powered by the new system on a chip. On July 29, 2013, Nvidia announced that they acquired PGI from STMicroelectronics. In February 2013, Nvidia announced its plans to build
3726-555: The company NVision, but that name was already taken by a manufacturer of toilet paper. Huang suggested the name Nvidia, from " invidia ", the Latin word for "envy". The company's original headquarters office was in Sunnyvale, California . Nvidia's first graphics accelerator product, the NV1 , was optimized for processing quadrilateral primitives ( forward texture mapping ) instead of
3807-626: The company reportedly hired at least four government affairs with professional backgrounds at agencies including the United States Department of State and the Department of the Treasury . It was noted that the $ 350,000 spent by the company on lobbying in 2023 was small compared to a number of major tech companies in the artificial intelligence space. As of January 2024, Raymond James Financial analysts estimated that Nvidia
3888-1104: The company unveiled its new logo. The key trends for ASUS are (as of the financial year ending 31 December): Asus has its headquarters in Beitou District , Taipei , Taiwan . As of 2009 , Asus had manufacturing facilities in Taiwan (Taipei, Luzhu , Nangang , Guishan ), China ( Suzhou , Chongqing ), Mexico ( Ciudad Juárez ) and the Czech Republic ( Ostrava ). The Asus Hi-Tech Park, located in Suzhou , covers 540,000 m (5,800,000 sq ft). Asus operates around 50 service sites across 32 countries and has over 400 service partners worldwide. Asus' products include 2-in-1s, laptops, tablet computers, desktop computers, smartphones , personal digital assistants (PDAs), servers , computer monitors , motherboards , graphics cards, sound cards, DVD drives, computer networking devices , computer cases , computer components and computer cooling systems. One of Asus main lineup
3969-605: The company's remaining resources on developing a graphics accelerator product optimized for processing triangle primitives: the RIVA 128 . By the time the RIVA 128 was released in August 1997, Nvidia was down to about 40 employees and only had enough money left for about one month of payroll. The sense of extreme desperation around Nvidia during this difficult era of its early history gave rise to "the unofficial company motto": "Our company
4050-634: The company's tagline has been In Search of Incredible. Asus was founded in Taipei in 1989 by T.H. Tung , Ted Hsu, Wayne Hsieh and M.T. Liao, all four having previously worked at Acer as hardware engineers . At this time, Taiwan had yet to establish a leading position in the computer hardware business. Intel Corporation would supply any new processors to more established companies like IBM first, and Taiwanese companies would have to wait for approximately six months after IBM received their engineering prototypes . According to company history, Asus created
4131-544: The connectivity modules of the device, this changed the splashscreen, updated various apps, disabled the auto-rotate feature when the tablet is docked and added the Nvidia TegraZone market, with specific Tegra 2 units apps and games. On 2 August 2011, the Transformer received updates to Android 3.2 and various minor changes. On 23 August 2011, the Transformer received another update, adding compatibility for
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#17327871975454212-646: The consumer market and are used in applications such as video editing , 3D rendering , and PC gaming . With a market share of 80.2% in the second quarter of 2023, Nvidia leads the market for discrete desktop GPUs by a wide margin. The company expanded its presence in the gaming industry with the introduction of the Shield Portable (a handheld game console ), Shield Tablet (a gaming tablet ), and Shield TV (a digital media player ), as well as its cloud gaming service GeForce Now . In addition to GPU design and outsourcing manufacturing, Nvidia provides
4293-456: The design of its hardware. In May 2017, Nvidia announced a partnership with Toyota which will use Nvidia's Drive PX-series artificial intelligence platform for its autonomous vehicles. In July 2017, Nvidia and Chinese search giant Baidu announced a far-reaching AI partnership that includes cloud computing, autonomous driving, consumer devices, and Baidu's open-source AI framework PaddlePaddle. Baidu unveiled that Nvidia's Drive PX 2 AI will be
4374-728: The export control list. The next month, the company unveiled a new advanced chip in China, called the A800 GPU, that met the export control rules. In September 2023, Getty Images announced that it was partnering with Nvidia to launch Generative AI by Getty Images, a new tool that lets people create images using Getty's library of licensed photos. Getty will use Nvidia's Edify model, which is available on Nvidia's generative AI model library Picasso. On September 26, 2023, Denny's CEO Kelli Valade joined Huang in East San Jose to celebrate
4455-568: The first PhysX accelerator card. In December 2005, Asus entered the LCD TV market with the TLW32001 model. In January 2006, Asus announced that it would cooperate with Lamborghini to develop the VX laptop series. On 9 March 2006, Asus was confirmed as one of the manufacturers of the first Microsoft Origami models, together with Samsung and Founder Technology . On 8 August 2006, Asus announced
4536-462: The first GPUs of the GeForce 10 series , the GTX 1080 and 1070, based on the company's new Pascal microarchitecture. Nvidia claimed that both models outperformed its Maxwell -based Titan X model; the models incorporate GDDR5X and GDDR5 memory respectively, and use a 16 nm manufacturing process. The architecture also supports a new hardware feature known as simultaneous multi-projection (SMP), which
4617-585: The foundation of its autonomous-vehicle platform. Nvidia officially released the Titan V on December 7, 2017. Nvidia officially released the Nvidia Quadro GV100 on March 27, 2018. Nvidia officially released the RTX 2080 GPUs on September 27, 2018. In 2018, Google announced that Nvidia's Tesla P4 graphic cards would be integrated into Google Cloud service's artificial intelligence. In May 2018, on
4698-482: The founding of Nvidia at Denny's on Berryessa Road, where a plaque was installed to mark the relevant corner booth as the birthplace of a $ 1 trillion company. By then, Nvidia's H100 GPUs were in such demand that even other tech giants were beholden to how Nvidia allocated supply. Larry Ellison of Oracle Corporation said that month that during a dinner with Huang at Nobu in Palo Alto , he and Elon Musk of Tesla, Inc. and xAI "were begging" for H100s, "I guess
4779-416: The high-performance Intel's Core i9 processor and Nvidia's GeForce RTX 3050 Ti graphic performance, making the biggest innovation breakthroughs in tablet markets. It is the world's first RTX 30 series computer in tablet form factor. In June 2023, Asus released the ROG Ally , a handheld device designed to compete with the Steam Deck . The Ally possesses a 7-inch (diagonal), 1080p touchscreen display with
4860-501: The intellectual assets of its one-time rival 3dfx , a pioneer in consumer 3D graphics technology leading the field from the mid-1990s until 2000. The acquisition process was finalized in April 2002. In 2001, Standard & Poor's selected Nvidia to replace the departing Enron in the S&P 500 stock index, meaning that index funds would need to hold Nvidia shares going forward. In July 2002, Nvidia acquired Exluna for an undisclosed sum. Exluna made software-rendering tools and
4941-414: The larger model failed to turn on during the presentation, leaving the smaller model on display. The Eee Pad Transformer was revealed at CES 2011 . The Eee Pad is a tablet computer with a 10.1" IPS multi-touch screen with a resolution of 1280 × 800 and an Nvidia Tegra 2 system-on-a-chip (SoC). It has an 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi module, but lacks 3G connectivity. The price at launch of
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#17327871975455022-476: The late 1990s, Nvidia was one of 70 startup companies chasing the idea that graphics acceleration for video games was the path to the future. Only two survived: Nvidia and ATI Technologies , which merged into AMD. Nvidia initially had no name and the co-founders named all their files NV, as in "next version". The need to incorporate the company prompted the co-founders to review all words with those two letters. At one point, Malachowsky and Priem wanted to call
5103-462: The most computationally challenging problems and would have incredibly high sales volume. Those two conditions don’t happen very often. Video games was our killer app — a flywheel to reach large markets funding huge R&D to solve massive computational problems." With $ 40,000 in the bank, the company was born. The company subsequently received $ 20 million of venture capital funding from Sequoia Capital , Sutter Hill Ventures and others. During
5184-464: The new laptop is going to be seven times faster than a top-end MacBook Pro with a Core i9 and AMD's Radeon Pro Vega 20 graphics in apps like Maya and RedCine-X Pro. In August 2019, Nvidia announced Minecraft RTX , an official Nvidia-developed patch for the game Minecraft adding real-time DXR ray tracing exclusively to the Windows 10 version of the game. The whole game is, in Nvidia's words, "refit" with path tracing , which dramatically affects
5265-505: The past", and that Apple was developing its own GPU technology. Without Apple-approved Nvidia web drivers, Apple users are faced with replacing their Nvidia cards with a competing supported brand, such as AMD Radeon from the list recommended by Apple. On March 11, 2019, Nvidia announced a deal to buy Mellanox Technologies for $ 6.9 billion to substantially expand its footprint in the high-performance computing market. In May 2019, Nvidia announced new RTX Studio laptops. The creators say that
5346-468: The personnel were merged into the Cg project. In August 2003, Nvidia acquired MediaQ for approximately US$ 70 million. On April 22, 2004, Nvidia acquired iReady, also a provider of high-performance TCP offload engines and iSCSI controllers. In December 2004, it was announced that Nvidia would assist Sony with the design of the graphics processor ( RSX ) for the PlayStation 3 game console. On December 14, 2005, Nvidia acquired ULI Electronics , which at
5427-401: The prior two years. In December 2010, Asus launched the world's thinnest notebook, the Asus U36, with Intel processor voltage standard (not low voltage) Intel Core i3 or i5 with a thickness of only 19 mm. In January 2013, Asus officially ended production of its Eee PC series due to declining sales caused by consumers increasingly switching to tablets and Ultrabooks . In April 2022,
5508-427: The process of the restructuring, a highly criticized pension-plan restructuring effectively zeroed out the existing pension balances. The company paid out all contributions previously made by employees. On 9 December 2008, the Open Handset Alliance announced that Asus had become one of 14 new members of the organization. These "new members will either deploy compatible Android devices, contribute significant code to
5589-563: The proposed takeover of Arm was stalled after the UK's Competition and Markets Authority raised "significant competition concerns". In October 2021, the European Commission opened a competition investigation into the takeover. The Commission stated that Nvidia's acquisition could restrict competitors' access to Arm's products and provide Nvidia with too much internal information on its competitors due to their deals with Arm. SoftBank (the parent company of Arm) and Nvidia announced in early February 2022 that they "had agreed not to move forward with
5670-420: The termination of the deal in February 2022 in what would have been the largest semiconductor acquisition. In 2023, Nvidia became the seventh public U.S. company to be valued at over $ 1 trillion , and the company's valuation has skyrocketed since then as the company became a leader in data center chips with AI capabilities in the midst of the AI boom . In June 2024, for one day, Nvidia overtook Microsoft as
5751-427: The time supplied third-party southbridge parts for chipsets to ATI , Nvidia's competitor. In March 2006, Nvidia acquired Hybrid Graphics . In December 2006, Nvidia, along with its main rival in the graphics industry AMD (which had acquired ATI), received subpoenas from the U.S. Department of Justice regarding possible antitrust violations in the graphics card industry. Forbes named Nvidia its Company of
5832-452: The transaction 'because of significant regulatory challenges'". The investigation is set to end on March 15, 2022. That same month, Nvidia was reportedly compromised by a cyberattack. In March 2022, Nvidia's CEO Jensen Huang mentioned that they are open to having Intel manufacture their chips in the future. This was the first time the company mentioned that they would work together with Intel's upcoming foundry services. In April 2022, it
5913-524: The trustee of 3dfx's bankruptcy estate to challenge its 2000 acquisition of 3dfx's intellectual assets. On November 6, 2014, in an unpublished memorandum order, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed the "district court's judgment affirming the bankruptcy court's determination that [Nvidia] did not pay less than fair market value for assets purchased from 3dfx shortly before 3dfx filed for bankruptcy". On May 6, 2016, Nvidia unveiled
5994-472: The usual scrutiny, with the latter retaining a 10% share of Nvidia. In October 2020, Nvidia announced its plan to build the most powerful computer in Cambridge , England. The computer, called Cambridge-1, launched in July 2021 with a $ 100 million investment and will employ AI to support healthcare research . According to Jensen Huang, "The Cambridge-1 supercomputer will serve as a hub of innovation for
6075-462: The way light, reflections, and shadows work inside the engine. In May 2020, Nvidia announced it was acquiring Cumulus Networks . Post acquisition the company was absorbed into Nvidia's networking business unit, along with Mellanox . In May 2020, Nvidia's developed an open-source ventilator to address the shortage resulting from the global coronavirus pandemic . On May 14, 2020, Nvidia officially announced their Ampere GPU microarchitecture and
6156-423: The world's most valuable publicly traded company , with a market capitalization of over $ 3.3 trillion. Nvidia was founded on April 5, 1993, by Jensen Huang (CEO as of 2024 ), a Taiwanese-American electrical engineer who was previously the director of CoreWare at LSI Logic and a microprocessor designer at AMD ; Chris Malachowsky , an engineer who worked at Sun Microsystems ; and Curtis Priem , who
6237-403: The wrong technology, Nvidia was confronted with a painful dilemma: keep working on its inferior chip for the Dreamcast even though it was already too far behind the competition, or stop working and run out of money right away. Eventually, Sega's president at the time, Shoichiro Irimajiri , came to visit Huang in person to deliver the news that Sega was going with another graphics chip vendor for
6318-514: Was previously a senior staff engineer and graphics chip designer at IBM and Sun Microsystems. The three men agreed to start the company in a meeting at a Denny's roadside diner on Berryessa Road in East San Jose . At the time, Malachowsky and Priem were frustrated with Sun's management and were looking to leave, but Huang was on "firmer ground", in that he was already running his own division at LSI. The three co-founders discussed
6399-411: Was released for the Transformer. It had general usability and speed updates, and added the ability to change the size of compatible widgets, added a large scroll bar to the browser, and allowed scrolling the currently open application screen, allowing many applications to be switched to quickly. On 16 July 2011, another over the air software update for the Transformer was released. Beside the updates of
6480-573: Was reported that Nvidia planned to open a new research center in Yerevan, Armenia . In May 2022, Nvidia opened Voyager, the second of the two giant buildings at its new headquarters complex to the west of the old one. Unlike its smaller and older sibling Endeavor, the triangle theming is used more "sparingly" in Voyager. In September 2022, Nvidia announced its next-generation automotive-grade chip, Drive Thor . In September 2022, Nvidia announced
6561-487: Was updated to support Android 4.0.3 . The Eee Pad Transformer was announced at CES 2011 , and was made available on 30 March 2011. The Transformer design includes an optional docking keyboard. In February 2010, Asus announced that it would be producing a tablet PC in its Asus Eee line of products, designed to rival the iPad . Semiconductor company Qualcomm had previously displayed an Android -based smartbook manufactured by Asus at Computex , generating interest in
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