NVIDIA® Preface™ Platform Enables Windows Vista On The Go Product PR: Varun Dubey FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE NVIDIA® Preface™ Platform Enables Windows Vista On The Go CES “Best of Innovations” Winner Extends Windows SideShow Capabilities to Bluetooth-Enabled Wireless Devices
Chosen as a CES Innovations Honoree for 2007, NVIDIA Preface provides notebook PC users running Windows SideShow with “always-on” access to e-mail, calendars, maps, and other data via a secondary display—even when the notebook is powered down. Notebooks with in-lid secondary displays and keypads based on NVIDIA Preface are expected to hit the market early this year. The new extensions to NVIDIA Preface platform support Bluetooth wireless communication, which will allow Windows Vista PC users to access their data from companion devices. This capability, combined with the thin, low-power design of the NVIDIA Preface platform, opens the door to a wide variety of form factors, including:
Such devices combine the benefits of portable consumer electronics devices with the versatile mobile computing features of Windows Vista, significantly enriching the evolving mobile and in-home consumer lifestyle. “Windows SideShow and the NVIDIA Preface platform with Bluetooth are linking consumer electronics and PCs together like never before,” said John Milner, general manager of personal media processors at NVIDIA Corporation. “As a result, both market segments can enjoy a new range of possibilities for delivering convenience, connectivity, and entertainment value to consumers.” SideShow devices communicate with the main PC via mini-applications called gadgets, which retrieve critical data from hard drives or online information sources. Several gadgets are expected to ship with Windows Vista, with many more available for download on the Microsoft Gadget Web site or pre-installed by the PC OEM or system builder. The NVIDIA Preface platform also includes native SideShow gadgets that interoperate with the built-in Music Player and Picture Viewer, both of which can operate even when the host PC is powered down. “We’re excited about the tremendous support and enthusiasm NVIDIA is providing for Windows Vista at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show,” said Brad Goldberg, general manager for Windows Client at Microsoft Corp. “By working closely together, we are helping to provide technologies that will connect, entertain, and hopefully surprise people by how easy this next generation of computing makes their lives.” Editors’ Note: To arrange a meeting at CES, contact Kimberley Stowe Hoffman at (408) 768-1097 or email kimberley.stowe@portalplayer.com About NVIDIA Certain statements in this press release including, but not limited to, statements as to NVIDIA GeForce 8 GPUs and nForce 600i SLI MCPs, Microsoft Windows Vista and DirectX 10, the progression of game development, and the benefits of manufacturing motherboards 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: delays in ramping new products into production, market or customer acceptance of a competitor's product or technology instead of ours; software or manufacturing defects; our reliance on third party manufacturers; development of more effective or efficient GPUs or MCPs; the impact of technological development and competition; general industry trends; changes in industry standards 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-Q for the quarter ended April 30, 2006. Copies of reports filed with the SEC are posted on our Web site 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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