A fully-functioning engineering prototype of the Voodoo 5 6000 was sold at an auction for a whopping $15,000. It's truly an ...

Here’s a look at Nvidia’s path to where it is today, from creating hardware for the gaming industry to designing the chips ...

Nvidia’s third graphics chip, the Riva 128, was developed and released in a record-breaking six months. And this time, it rendered images in triangles rather than quads.

The RIVA 128 (1997) offered 3.3 million transistors on a 350 nm process, full-fledged 3D in 32-bit color, and a bandwidth of 1.6 GB/s at a price lower than Voodoo Graphics (but with inferior texture ...

memorabilia Rare 1998 Nvidia Riva TNT prototype and signed lunchbox go up for auction Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has signed the vintage case, apparently By Skye Jacobs May 9, 2025 at 5:19 PM 13 comments ...

Take Nvidia’s first blockbuster chip, the RIVA 128. Conventional wisdom said it’d take two years to develop. Nvidia had nine months. How did Jensen solve the problem? He flipped the usual process.

Back when Nvidia was a scrappy startup, CEO Jensen Huang enforced one rule: Work at the speed of light—let physics, never bureaucracy, be your only limit. He wasn’t joking. Take Nvidia’s first ...

As Nvidia discovered with the NV1, there is always a chicken-and-egg situation when it comes to hardware and software demand. To jump-start the process, its sales team started donating free GPUs to ...

Nvidia’s Riva 128 design was so much better than existing graphics chips that it faced no direct competitors, and Nvidia sold a million units within four months, paving the way to the company ...

A new book on Nvidia Corp. debuting this week entitled "The Nvidia Way" should probably be called "Jensen's Way." The book, by Barron's senior writer Tae Kim and published by W. W. Norton & Co ...

Nvidia founder Huang is known as a major fan of ‘Star Trek.’ A new chip, the RIVA 128, saved the company. Nvidia even turned a modest profit in its first year. This success would be short-lived.