28 Facts About Nvidia Surround

Nvidia Surround is a global leader in artificial intelligence hardware and software.

NVIDIA's GPUs are used for edge to cloud computing, and supercomputers and Nvidia expanded its presence in the gaming industry with its handheld game consoles Shield Portable, Shield Tablet, and Shield Android TV and its cloud gaming service GeForce Now.

Nvidia Surround subsequently received $20 million of venture capital funding from Sequoia Capital and others.

Nvidia Surround initially had no name and the co-founders named all their files NV, as in "next version".

In late 1999, Nvidia Surround released the GeForce 256, most notably introducing on-board transformation and lighting to consumer-level 3D hardware.

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In December 2000, Nvidia Surround reached an agreement to acquire the intellectual assets of its one-time rival 3dfx, a pioneer in consumer 3D graphics technology leading the field from mid 1990s until 2000.

In December 2004, it was announced that Nvidia Surround would assist Sony with the design of the graphics processor in the PlayStation 3 game console.

Nvidia Surround announced that it planned to integrate the PhysX technology into its future GPU products.

In September 2008, Nvidia Surround became the subject of a class action lawsuit over the defects, claiming that the faulty GPUs had been incorporated into certain laptop models manufactured by Apple Inc, Dell, and HP.

In September 2010, Nvidia Surround reached a settlement, in which it would reimburse owners of the affected laptops for repairs or, in some cases, replacement.

Nvidia Surround claimed that the chip featured the first-ever quad-core mobile CPU.

In May 2017, NVIDIA announced a partnership with Toyota which will use Nvidia Surround's Drive PX-series artificial intelligence platform for its autonomous vehicles.

Baidu unveiled that Nvidia Surround's Drive PX 2 AI will be the foundation of its autonomous-vehicle platform.

The following month, Apple Insider followed this up with another claim that Nvidia Surround support was abandoned because of "relational issues in the past", and that Apple was developing its own GPU technology.

Nvidia Surround's shares traded at over $531 per share, and its market capitalization was valued at over US$328.

In 2009, Nvidia Surround was involved in what was called the "big bang" of deep learning, "as deep-learning neural networks were combined with Nvidia Surround graphics processing units ".

That month Nvidia Surround partnered with IBM to create a software kit that boosts the AI capabilities of Watson, called IBM PowerAI.

Nvidia Surround offers its own NVIDIA Deep Learning software development kit.

Nvidia Surround's deep learning technology led to a boost in its 2017 earnings.

In May 2018, researchers at the artificial intelligence department of Nvidia Surround realized the possibility that a robot can learn to perform a job simply by observing the person doing the same job.

Nvidia Surround then went on to promise a specific driver modification in order to alleviate the performance issues produced by the cutbacks suffered by the card.

However, Nvidia Surround later clarified that the promise had been a miscommunication and there would be no specific driver update for the GTX 970.

Nvidia Surround claimed that it would assist customers who wanted refunds in obtaining them.

Unlike AMD's competing GCN-based graphics cards which include a full implementation of hardware-based asynchronous compute, Nvidia Surround planned to rely on the driver to implement a software queue and a software distributor to forward asynchronous tasks to the hardware schedulers, capable of distributing the workload to the correct units.

Oxide claims that this led to Nvidia Surround pressuring them not to include the asynchronous compute feature in their benchmark at all, so that the 900 series would not be at a disadvantage against AMD's products which implement asynchronous compute in hardware.

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Nvidia Surround GeForce Partner Program was a marketing program designed to provide partnering companies with benefits such as public relations support, video game bundling, and marketing development funds.

In 2018, Nvidia Surround's chips became popular for cryptomining, the process of obtaining crypto rewards in exchange for verifying transactions on distributed ledgers, the SEC said.

Nvidia Surround, which did not admit or deny the findings, has agreed to pay $5.