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Is Nvidia about to change forever?

Nvidia was founded on April 5, 1993, by Jensen Huang, who used to be the director of CoreWare at LSI Logic, Chris Malachowsky, an electrical engineer who worked at Sun Microsystems, and Curtis Priem, previously a senior staff engineer and graphics chip designer at Sun Microsystems. They wanted to create a virtualized environment for all things IO (including Graphics) and ...

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Nvidia was founded on April 5, 1993, by Jensen Huang, who used to be the director of CoreWare at LSI Logic, Chris Malachowsky, an electrical engineer who worked at Sun Microsystems, and Curtis Priem, previously a senior staff engineer and graphics chip designer at Sun Microsystems. They wanted to create a virtualized environment for all things IO (including Graphics) and audio, etc., with a strong emphasis on gaming. Their first product, the NV1, was one of the earliest examples of accelerated computing—one where the peripherals are the accelerators. Their idea was that a virtualized programming interface allows hardware to change
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