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Nvidia Part I: The GPU Company (1993-2006)

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G Force Two 56

The way to think about it is, those gpus were fixed function graphic accelerators. An invidia develops in conjunction with this and they call it c g literally,. They extend the c programming language with graphics libraries that can be used to directly programme graphics for the gpu. So this makes you note that sort of like marketing, you know, ah, this g force two 56. It's a gpu. Now it's real lake. This is a graphical processing unit that is intelligent, that is every bit as you know. Maybe not every bit as important as the cpu yet, but like, this is like the stake in the ground of lik. This is no sound card.

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