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During the second quarter of fiscal 2007, our NVIDIA GeForce Go notebook GPU product line achieved record revenue for the
second consecutive quarter. In addition, our NVIDIA Quadro professional product line increased its revenue 27% from the second
quarter of fiscal 2006. We transitioned from our NVIDIA GeForce 6600 to the NVIDIA GeForce 7600, which delivers almost a 100%
performance increase at the same price point.
During the third quarter of fiscal 2007, we continued to experience growth in sales of our GeForce 7 series products, primarily in
the mainstream and performance segments. Our NVIDIA GeForce Go notebook GPU product line achieved record revenue for the
third consecutive quarter, primarily through increased sales in the notebook standalone GPU segment.
In June 2006, we shipped the GeForce 7950 GX2, which provides 2500x1600 resolution. This is the resolution of cinematic film,
and brings the 16:9 panoramic experience of cinema to gaming. We also announced PureVideo High−Definition, or HD technology, a
combination of hardware acceleration from an NVIDIA GPU, high definition movie player integration and High−Bandwidth Digital
Content Protection, or HDCP, feature support, to enable manufacturers and consumers to build PCs that can play High−Definition
Digital Video Disc, or HD DVD or Blu−ray movies.
In August 2006, we introduced the NVIDIA Quadro Plex 1000, the world's first dedicated Visual Computing System. The
NVIDIA Quadro Plex 1000 offers scalability in a desktop or dense 3U rackmount configuration for professional applications such as
those powering multiple streams of 4K high−definition video, 3D styling and design, scientific and medical visualization, oil and gas
exploration, or visual simulation and training.
In November 2006, we introduced our GeForce 8 series GPUs, which is based on a unified shader architecture. Instead of separate
vertex and pixel shading processors, the GeForce 8800 has 128 stream processors, operating at 1.35GHz, that can process either vertex
or pixel shader programs. GeForce 8800 is also the world's first DX10 GPU. DX10 is a new Application Programming Interface, or
API, for Microsoft Windows Vista, or Vista, and includes many new features. We also announced Compute Unified Device
Architecture, or CUDA, a new mode of operation on GPUs where the computational power of the GPU can be utilized for
computation−intensive applications.
During the fourth quarter of fiscal 2007, we extended our leadership share position in the notebook GPU segment to 58% share,
according to the Mercury Research Fourth Quarter 2006 PC Graphics Report. Notebook GPU revenue grew over 120%
year−over−year. Additionally, the NVIDIA Quadro professional product line achieved record revenue with a 24% revenue increase
from the fourth quarter fiscal 2006.
MCP Business
In February 2006, we completed our acquisition of ULi Electronics, Inc., or ULi, a core logic developer for the PC industry. This
acquisition represents our ongoing investment in our platform solution strategy and has strengthened our sales, marketing, and
customer engineering presence in Taiwan and China.
In March 2006, we shipped our first integrated graphics processor, or IGP, core−logic solution for Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.,
or AMD, based notebook PCs − the GeForce Go 6100 GPU and NVIDIA nForce Go 430 MCP. This core logic solution is the
industry's first high−definition IGP to provide hardware accelerated H.264 high−definition video playback.
In May 2006, we shipped our NVIDIA nForce 590 SLI, a high−performance motherboard solution for x86 PC platforms,
including those based on socket AM2 processors by AMD. The NVIDIA nForce 590 SLI can utilize the power of up to four NVIDIA
GeForce GPUs for HD gaming.
In June 2006, we introduced the NVIDIA nForce 590 SLI for Intel Core2 Duo and Core 2 Extreme CPUs.
In November 2006, we introduced our new NVIDIA nForce 680i SLI MCPs, which deliver performance for Intel Corporation, or
Intel, CPUs and are designed specifically for enthusiasts with features such as SLI, Dual Net Gigabit Ethernet, and MediaShield
RAID. The introduction of our NVIDIA nForce 680i SLI MCPs extends our nForce products for Intel Corporation, or Intel's, CPUs
with a performance platform for Intel's Core2 Duo and new Core 2 Quad CPUs.
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Source: NVIDIA CORP, 10−K, March 16, 2007