The autumn of 1999 saw the absolution of the GeForce 256 (NV10), best conspicuously introducing on-board transformation and lighting (T&L) to consumer-level 3D hardware. Running at 120 MHz and featuring four pixel pipelines, it implemented avant-garde video acceleration, motion compensation, and accouterments sub-picture alpha blending. The GeForce outperformed absolute articles by a advanced margin.
Due to the success of its products, Nvidia won the adjustment to beforehand the cartoon accouterments for Microsoft's Xbox bold console, which becoming Nvidia a $200 actor advance. However, the activity drew the time of abounding of Nvidia's best engineers abroad from added projects. In the abbreviate appellation this did not matter, and the GeForce2 GTS alien in the summertime of 2000.
In 2000, Nvidia acquired the bookish assets of its ancient battling 3dfx, one of the better cartoon companies of the mid- to late-1990s.9
In July 2002, Nvidia acquired Exluna for an bearding sum. Exluna fabricatedcomputer application apprehension accoutrement and the cadre were alloyed into the Cg project. 10
In August 2003, Nvidia acquired MediaQ for about $70million.11
On April 22, 2004, Nvidia acquired iReady, a provider of aerial achievement TCP/IP and iSCSI offload solutions.12
December 2004 saw the advertisement that Nvidia would abetment Sony with the architecture of the cartoon processor (RSX) in the PlayStation 3 bold console. In March 2006 it emerged that Nvidia would bear RSX to Sony as an IP core, and that Sony abandoned would adapt the accomplish of the RSX. Under the agreement, Nvidia will accommodate advancing abutment to anchorage the RSX to Sony's fabs of best (Sony and Toshiba), as able-bodied as die shrinks to 65 nm. This convenance contrasts with Nvidia's business adjustment with Microsoft, in which Nvidia managed assembly and commitment of the Xbox GPU through Nvidia's accepted third-party branch contracts. Meanwhile, Microsoft chosewhen? to authorization a architecture by ATI and to accomplish its own accomplishment arrange for the Xbox 360 cartoon hardware, as has Nintendo for the Wii animate (which succeeds the ATI-based Nintendo GameCube).
On December 14, 2005, Nvidia acquired ULI Electronics, which at the time supplied third-party southbridge genitalia for chipsets to ATI, Nvidia's competitor.13
In March 2006, Nvidia acquired Hybrid Graphics14
In December 2006, Nvidia, forth with its capital battling in the cartoon industry AMD (which had acquired ATI), accustomed subpoenas from the U.S. Department of Justice apropos accessible antitrust violations in the cartoon agenda industry.15
Forbes anniversary called Nvidia its Aggregation of the Year for 2007, citation the accomplishments it fabricated during the said aeon as able-bodied as during the antecedent 5 years.16
On January 5, 2007, Nvidia appear that it had completed the accretion of PortalPlayer, Inc.17
In February 2008, Nvidia acquired Ageia Technologies for an bearding sum. "The acquirement reflects both companies' aggregate ambition of creating the best amazing and arresting bold experiences," said Jen-Hsun Huang, admiral and CEO of Nvidia. "By accumulation the teams that created the world's best common GPU and physics agent brands, we can now accompany GeForce-accelerated PhysX to twelve actor gamers about the world."18 (The press-release fabricated no acknowledgment of the acquisition-cost nor of approaching affairs for specific products.)
In April 2009, a cloister circumscribed assorted chic activity apparel into one case, blue-blooded The Nvidia GPU Litigation.19 Nvidia agreed to alter adulterated chips in or balance purchasers who already spent to get their laptop repaired. Nvidia additionally gave backup laptops to abounding users in lieu of authoritative a repair. The replacements and payments were not fabricated until the adjustment was accomplished in 2011. Users were appropriate to appearance affidavit of acquirement and mail in their aboriginal adulterated laptop. The chips were present in a cardinal of Dell and HP laptops, as able-bodied as two Apple MacBook Pro models. Although the adjustment amount Nvidia millions of dollars, abounding of the individuals were black with the settlement, and assorted websites and blogs reflected this. The website advantaged Fair Nvidia Adjustment 20 was one such site.
On January 10, 2011, Nvidia active a six-year cross-licensing acceding with Intel which marks the end of all outstanding acknowledged disputes amid these two companies. According to the acceding Intel will pay Nvidia $1.5 billion in licensing fees payable in bristles anniversary installments.21
On February 15, 2011, Nvidia appear and approved the aboriginal quad-core processor for adaptable accessories at the at the Adaptable Apple Congress in Barcelona. This dent is accepted to address with abounding tablets to be appear in the additional bisected of 2011.22
In May 2011, it was appear that Nvidia had agreed to access Icera, a baseband dent authoritative aggregation in the UK, for $367 actor in cash.2324
