NVIDIA Named Company of the Year
"They accost him at airports. They pump him for technical information at conferences. Even his son is on his case. When you sell a product that tens of millions of videogame fanatics rely on, there is no escape. Nvidia Chief Executive Jen-Hsun Huang came home one evening in 2003 to find the latest copy of Maximum PC magazine waiting for him. Inside was a harsh review of Nvidia's new graphics card, the brawny set of microchips that makes the aliens and bullets come to three-dimensional life on a personal computer.
"Dad," Huang's then 13-year-old son Spencer, an avid gamer, wrote on a sticky note stuck to the page, "I think you need to kick it up a notch."
There aren't many technical details about NVIDIA or hints about the company's future plans, but they do say NVIDIA intends to release their next-gen products this spring.
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Ati was in the lead in 2003 for sure, just one year after surprising the world with the Radeon 9700 that ran circles around the GeForce 4 Ti4600. Thanks to the recent Radeon HD 38x0 line, ATI is still the card to choose for a $170-$220 price range imo. But Nvidia still has the other price points, and has dominated the year. If you wanna drop $300+ on a card, Nvidia is your company. The 8800 line is proving legendary. Nvidia is worthy of this praise. |
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Having Forbes name you co. of the year is pretty huge, but the honor is deserved as Nvidia has delivered the goods with the 8 series. I'm no fanboy though so if Ati's next gen top tier card rules the roost, I'm gettin me 1! |
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Hi All Agreed, having Forbes name you as company of the year is a big honor, however I've got to believe that AMD/ATI are hard at work to improve their product & become more competitive with Nvidia. |
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