NVIDIA GeForce 8-Series for Notebooks Coming Soon

NVIDIA plans to release GeForce 8 series video cards for notebooks in time for Intel’s Santa Rosa laptop platform launch, chief executive and president of Nvidia Jen-Hsun Huang said recently, during a conference call with financial analysts.

The Santa Rosa platform, also known as Centrino Pro, is likely to be launched in late Q1 or early Q2 2007, which means that commercial shipments of GeForce 8 for gaming and multimedia notebooks are just around the corner, X-Bit Labs reports.

“We are ramping production on our GeForce 8 family of notebook GPUs, the industry’s first DirectX 10 and high-definition video GPU for notebooks. GeForce 8 will be the only DX10 GPU shipping in the upcoming Santa Rosa notebook launch,” Mr. Huang said.

The DirectX 10 is the Microsoft’s latest suite of multimedia application programming interfaces (APIs), which improves computer’s in-game and multimedia performance, compared to previous DirectX 9. Many of the PC games scheduled for release in 2007 have been designed to exploit the new graphics features of DirectX 10.

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