Nvidia Sells 1 Billion GeForce GPUs

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Nvidia said Thursday that it has now sold 1 billion GeForce GPUs.
Nvidia launched the Geforce in 1999 with the GeForce 256, and the Nvidia GPU series has progressed through several iterations since then - from the GeForce 2 through the GeForce 9, including the GeForce FX, and then on to the GeForce 100 to the GeForce 500 series.
"GeForce is a product that we are all very proud to be a part of, and we're so happy that we have customers like you to build them for," Drew Henry, the company's general manager of its GPU business unit, said in a blog post. "Thanks for helping us achieve such a significant milestone."
Nvidia also provided the the standard metrics for evaluating the impact of the one-billion mark, such as noting that the chips, lined up, would wrap around the world more than twice, or stretch across 315,000 football fields.
The tally includes Nvidia's desktop chips - including the recent release of the GeForce GTX 570 and the GeForce 500M-series mobile GPUs.
Trends in the chip market seem to be pushing against Nvidia, with Intel's "Sandy Bridge" and AMD's Fusion processors moving toward an integrated model that is combining the core logic, processor, and GPU. Instead, Nvidia has moved aggressively into the embedded market with its latest Tegra 2 processors.
Nvidia also received a rejuvenating boost of capital from Intel, which agreed to pay $1.5 billion in licensing fees for the use of Nvidia's patents. Nvidia also indicated that it intended to build an ARM-based CPU for the PC, whose mission would have been irrelevant if not for Microsoft's decision to design the next version of Windows around ARM.
 
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