NVIDIA and TSMC Ship One-Billionth GeForce Graphics Processor

RavenXXX2 · 13 Jan 2011 at 10:43

NVIDIA and TSMC today celebrated the shipment of the one-billionth GeForce graphics processor designed by NVIDIA and manufactured by TSMC. Today's announcement is a testament to the popularity of GeForce graphics processors, which are recognized worldwide for exceptional performance in games, video, and nearly all forms of 3D content. Today nearly every major PC manufacturer offers systems powered by GeForce GPUs.

The partners achieved the one-billionth processor milestone in less than 12 years. This achievement reflects a shared commitment to technological excellence and a relentless pace of innovation. Through deep trust and long-term objectives, the companies have raised the bar for the ambitions and practices that have helped shape the semiconductor industry.

"Since inventing the GPU more than a decade ago, NVIDIA has driven innovation in these processors at a rate virtually unmatched in the technology industry," said Jen-Hsun Huang, president and chief executive officer, NVIDIA. "With our close partnership with TSMC, the complexity of these devices has increased more than 1000 times, enabling enormous progress in computers ranging from handhelds and PCs to workstations and data centers."

"NVIDIA's achievement is a prime example of how close collaboration between foundry and fabless companies can benefit the consumer electronics market, the semiconductor market segment, and both companies' shareholders. NVIDIA has been a model of vision and innovation, and we highly value the long-term relationship between NVIDIA and TSMC," said Dr. Morris Chang, TSMC Chairman and CEO.

http://www.techpowerup.com/138334/NVIDIA-and-TSMC-Ship-One-Billionth-GeForce-Graphics-Processor.html

Mr Paul · 13 Jan 2011 at 11:02

That's nice.

buttkinz · 13 Jan 2011 at 15:17

lol, invented the gpu... next he'll be saying he wrote star wars and starred as darth vader

Mr Paul · 13 Jan 2011 at 15:22

They probably invented the term GPU, but not the actual GPU

deusexlumina · 13 Jan 2011 at 15:36

Not fond of TSMC, theyve often been the cause of rising prices and delays. Global foundaries may be more promising.

Awahwah · 13 Jan 2011 at 16:13

oh hail nVidia

ThomasTheTankEngine · 13 Jan 2011 at 16:38

4 of those billion were mine.

Mr Paul · 13 Jan 2011 at 16:39

jimbob27 said:
4 of those billion were mine.

Same here lol

BubbySoup · 13 Jan 2011 at 16:45

buttkinz said:
lol, invented the gpu... next he'll be saying he wrote star wars and starred as darth vader

Indeed

I am sure S3 were the first to market with a IBM-PC based GPU in the early 90's.

555BUK · 13 Jan 2011 at 17:00

I wonder how many of those billion GPU's had to be binned due to defect / low yield?

Locky · 13 Jan 2011 at 17:10

Inventing the GPU, lols Nvidia talking out of the ring piece again.

RavenXXX2 · 13 Jan 2011 at 17:19

Nvidia invented the term " GPU "

D.P. · 13 Jan 2011 at 17:19

buttkinz said:
lol, invented the gpu... next he'll be saying he wrote star wars and starred as darth vader

Nvidia basically did with the geforce 1.
Previous gfx cards with 3-D graphics accelerators that basically did high speed texturing and pixel buffering.

The Geforce series added transform and Lighting technology such that the 3-D vertex data could be processed on-board and not by the CPU, this gave rise to the first programmable GPUs.

D.P. · 13 Jan 2011 at 17:21

BubbySoup said:
Indeed

I am sure S3 were the first to market with a IBM-PC based GPU in the early 90's.

I'm pretty sure S3 never released a GPU, graphics accelerators yes.

D.P. · 13 Jan 2011 at 20:13

Locky said:
Inventing the GPU, lols Nvidia talking out of the ring piece again.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gpu

The term was defined and popularized by Nvidia in 1999, who marketed the GeForce 256 as "the world's first 'GPU', or Graphics Processing Unit, a single-chip processor with integrated transform, lighting, triangle setup/clipping, and rendering engines that is capable of processing a minimum of 10 million polygons per second."

ATI fanboys - can never handle the truth...

jigger · 13 Jan 2011 at 20:23

Its was actually me that invented the term "GPU" back in 89

Cleeecooo · 13 Jan 2011 at 20:35

jimbob27 said:
4 of those billion were mine.

Same. The same one died 3 times. LOL

chaparral · 13 Jan 2011 at 21:21

jimbob27 said:
4 of those billion were mine.

You Only had 4

my Nvidia GPU list goes something like this

x2 GTX 275
x2 GTX 8800
x3 7800GTX
x1 GeForce 4 4400
x1 TNT

So 9 of those billion were mine

(I may had more of them but can't remember

)

Jonny ///M · 13 Jan 2011 at 21:36

I had

1 x Gf2 mx
1x 6800gs(unlocked to a vanilla)

I feel bad

Gundog48 · 13 Jan 2011 at 21:41

I'd laugh if that 1-billionth GPU turned out to be a dud!