NVIDIA Releases OpenCL Driver to Developers

SANTA CLARA, Calif., April 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- NVIDIA Corporation,
the inventor of the GPU, today announced the release of its OpenCL driver and
software development kit (SDK) to developers participating in its OpenCL Early
Access Program. NVIDIA is providing this release to solicit early feedback in
advance of a beta release which will be made available to all GPU Computing
Registered Developers in the coming months.

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"The OpenCL standard was developed on NVIDIA GPUs and NVIDIA was the first
company to demonstrate OpenCL code running on a GPU," said Tony Tamasi, senior
vice president of technology and content at NVIDIA. "Being the first to
release an OpenCL driver to developers cements NVIDIA's leadership in GPU
Computing and is another key milestone in our ongoing strategy to make the GPU
the soul of the modern PC."

At the core of NVIDIA(R)'s GPU Computing strategy is the massively parallel
CUDA(TM) architecture that NVIDIA pioneered and has been shipping since 2006.
Accessible today through familiar industry standard programming environments
such as C, Java, Fortran and Python, the CUDA architecture supports all manner
of computational interfaces and, as such, is a perfect complement to OpenCL.
Enabled on over 100 million NVIDIA GPUs, the CUDA architecture is enabling
developers to innovate with the GPU and unleash never before seen performance
across a wide range of applications.

Developers can apply to become a GPU Computing Registered Developer at:
www.nvidia.com/opencl

About NVIDIA
NVIDIA (Nasdaq: NVDA) is the world leader in visual computing technologies and
the inventor of the GPU, a high-performance processor which generates
breathtaking, interactive graphics on workstations, personal computers, game
consoles, and mobile devices. NVIDIA serves the entertainment and consumer
market with its GeForce(R) graphics products, the professional design and
visualization market with its Quadro(R) graphics products, and the
high-performance computing market with its Tesla(TM) computing solutions
products. NVIDIA is headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif. and has offices
throughout Asia, Europe, and the Americas. For more information, visit
www.nvidia.com.

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statements as to: the benefits, features, impact, and capabilities of the
OpenCL driver and CUDA architecture; and our strategies, are forward-looking
statements that are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause
results to be materially different than expectations. Important factors that
could cause actual results to differ materially include: development of more
efficient or faster technology; adoption of the CPU for parallel processing;
design, manufacturing or software defects; the impact of technological
development and competition; changes in consumer preferences and demands;
customer adoption of different standards or our competitor's products; changes
in industry standards and interfaces; unexpected loss of performance of our
products or technologies when integrated into systems; changes in our
strategies as well as other factors detailed from time to time in the reports
NVIDIA files with the Securities and Exchange Commission including its Form
10-K for the fiscal period ended January 25, 2009. Copies of reports filed
with the SEC are posted on our website and are available from NVIDIA without
charge. These forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future
performance and speak only as of the date hereof, and, except as required by
law, NVIDIA disclaims any obligation to update these forward-looking
statements to reflect future events or circumstances.

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change without notice.

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Andrew Humber of NVIDIA Corporation, +1-408-486-8138, ahumber@nvidia.com