PNY Technologies Empowers Workstation Market With the PNY NVIDIA Quadro FX Series of Professional Graphics Solutions.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers PARSIPPANY, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 21, 2003 PNY Technologies PNY Technologies, Inc. is an American computer hardware company established in 1985. PNY is headquartered in Parsippany, New Jersey and maintains offices and manufacturing facilities in the United States, United Kingdom, France, Germany, and Taiwan. (R) today introduced groundbreaking 3D hardware, the PNY PNY Piedmont Natural Gas (stock symbol) NVIDIA(R) Quadro(TM) FX(TM) series of professional graphics solutions for workstation professionals. Powered by NVIDIA Corporation's newest workstation graphics solution, the PNY NVIDIA Quadro The NVIDIA Quadro is a series of AGP and PCI Express graphics cards created by the NVIDIA Corporation. The cards are designed to accelerate CAD (Computer-Aided Design) and DCC (digital content creation) and are usually found in workstations. FX makes real-time rendering for leading computer aided design (application) Computer Aided Design - (CAD) The part of CAE concerning the drawing or physical layout steps of engineering design. Often found in the phrase "CAD/CAM" for ".. manufacturing". (CAD) and digital content creation The development of newsworthy, educational and entertainment material for distribution over the Internet or other electronic media. See DAMS. (DCC (1) (Direct Cable Connection) A Windows 95/98 feature that allows PCs to be cabled together for data transfer. DCC actually sets up a network connection between the two machines. ) applications an integral part of the design workflow. In February, the PNY NVIDIA Quadro FX 2000 and the PNY NVIDIA Quadro FX 1000 will be available from PNY to system integrators, distributors and value-added resellers throughout the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. and Europe. "Partnering with a technology innovator such as NVIDIA allows us to provide the widest range of professional graphics boards for the most demanding range of CAD and DCC workstation applications," said Drew Singh, director of Quadro sales for PNY. "We will continue to empower our channel partners with the kind of hardware that defines performance and epitomizes the highest standard in quality--as the PNY NVIDIA Quadro FX series has already been met with immediate industry acceptance by leading Workstation System Integrators." Workstation System Integrators announcing systems that include the new PNY NVIDIA Quadro FX series of professional graphics boards include: ARM Systems, BOXX Technologies, Colfax International, Core Microsystems, MaxVision, NTSI NTSI National Traffic Safety Institute NTSI National Training Strategy Initiative (RSA) , TriStar Systems and Xi Computers. "Digital content creators demand uncompromised computing solutions," says Todd Bryant, CTO (Chief Technical Officer) The executive responsible for the technical direction of an organization. See CIO and salary survey. of BOXX Technologies. "Our partnership with PNY allows us to meet those demands and deliver XXtreme 3DBOXX workstations with the latest hardware, including NVIDIA's new Quadro FX architecture, to our customers." The PNY NVIDIA Quadro FX series delivers unmatched speed and efficiency and includes an architecture that doubles previous industry leading application performance. The boards now feature full 128-bit IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, New York, www.ieee.org) A membership organization that includes engineers, scientists and students in electronics and allied fields. floating-point precision that allows for the highest level of accuracy and the ultimate visual quality. Moreover, advanced Cg programmability empowers a new class of special effects special effects, in motion pictures, cinematographic techniques that create illusions in the audience's minds as well as the illusions created using these techniques. for OpenGL(R) and DirectX(R) applications for real-time rendering. Lastly, the new solution is certified by the entire spectrum of CAD and DCC applications. The PNY NVIDIA Quadro FX series consists of: - PNY NVIDIA Quadro FX 2000: This solution offers up to twice the application performance over previous generation 3D graphics hardware. Standard with 128 MB of DDR2 SDRAM, two DVI-I output connectors and two DVI-I to VGA adapters, the PNY NVIDIA Quadro FX also supports stereo 3D via a standard 3-pin connector. MSRP $1,995 - PNY NVIDIA Quadro FX 1000: Offering more than 150 percent performance improvement over previous generation 3D graphics hardware, this Professional solution with 128 MB of DDR2 SDRAM, two DVI-I output connectors, and two DVI-I to VGA adapters. The PNY NVIDIA Quadro FX also supports stereo 3D via a standard 3-pin connector. MSRP $1,295 All products in the PNY NVIDIA Quadro family come with a three-year warranty (one year standard plus two additional years upon completion of a registration form on PNY's Website). For additional information, visit PNY's website at www.pny.com/quadro. About PNY Technologies, Inc. Established in 1985, PNY Technologies, Inc. is a leading manufacturer and supplier of its Verto(R)-brand consumer graphics cards and PNY-brand NVIDIA Quadro(TM) graphics boards for workstation professional applications. The company also offers a full line of high-end memory upgrade modules, flash memory and flash peripherals. Its memory products currently account for a majority share of all retail sales in the U.S. Headquartered in Parsippany, N.J., PNY maintains manufacturing facilities and sales offices in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. (Santa Clara, Calif. and Parsippany, N.J.), Europe (France, United Kingdom, Germany) and Asia (Taiwan). For additional information, please visit the company's Web site at http://www.pny.com. The PNY logo is a registered trademark of PNY Technologies, Inc. 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Nancy Larson, 973/560-5512
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KEYWORD: NEW JERSEY
INDUSTRY KEYWORD: COMPUTERS/ELECTRONICS MANUFACTURING
ELECTRONIC GAMES/MULTIMEDIA HARDWARE SOFTWARE PRODUCT
SOURCE: PNY Technologies, Inc.
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