NVdia'S INDIAN CHIP

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Made-in-India chip powers gaming thrills to a new high

The research team at NVidia Bangalore achieved a feat that can make the best labs in the world cringe. A team of approximately 100 people spearheaded by Senior Directors, Sunil Nanda and Sridhar Manthani designed the latest NForce 600i class of chips that are currently powering NVidia’s latest high-end motherboards meant purely for enthusiast PC users and gamers. The chips were completely designed in the Bangalore labs, even the BIOS was completely written right here in our country.
NVidia enjoys 90% market share in India and their last quarter r eve n u e s added to $830 million. The company expects to hit the $3 billion mark in this f i n a n c i a l year. A total of 3600 people work for N Vi d i a wo rl dw i d e out of that 600 work in India. This means one out of six employees working for the company is an Indian.
Coming back to the chip designed here in the Bangalore labs, what NVidia President and CEO Jen-Hsun Huang and the team heads had in mind, was clear. Build the most overclockable, feature rich, and fastest chip for their future motherboards, which will support the Intel Core 2 Duo range of processors and NVidia’s very own G80 graphics processing unit (GPU), based Graphics cards. And to make it happen Jen Hsun, turned to the NVidia Labs in Bangalore. Work commenced on the chip around June last year and $30 million was pumped into the project. So when the first prototype chip worked without any problems there was nothing less than a celebration, as Sunil Nanda exclaims ‘The chip worked at the very first crank’
The new NForce chip, available in three flavours (680i, SLi, 650i SLi and 650i Ultra) was released with careful planning to coincide with the launch of the G80 range of graphics cards, DirectX 10 and Windows Vista. And now since the chip is ready the timing c o u l d n’ t have been any better.
The reason why the chip will work well with enthusiast PC users is because it removes all the speed bottlenecks within the architecture thus enabling a lot of bandwidth. Plus with SLi you can plug in two graphics cards on to your motherboard and enjoy the most graphics heavy games without any problems. What the new NForce plainly does, is allow system wide overclocking.
NVidia also plans to invest a total of around $250 million in research in Bangalore labs in the next couple of years for further research. The expected revenue from 680i chip alone is estimated at $200 mn.

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Source - http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2006/11/24/2112022.htm

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