In 1999, NVIDIA introduced the GeForce 256, helping graphics chips handle modern visual computing

NVIDIA's 1999 GeForce 256 graphics card revolutionized computing by introducing parallel processing, initially for games.
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A paradigm shift for high-performance computing

In January we gave NVIDIA’s CUDA (Compute Unified Device Architecture) software tools that allows C programmers to use multiple high-performance GPU cards to perform massively parallel computations ...