Photo: Courtesy subject But early on, the company’s fate was in doubt. Nvidia’s first chip, the NV1, proved incompatible with popular games of the time and the company could barely afford to ...

They chose the name Nvidia—a mashup of invidia, the Latin word for envy, and the name of their first chip, the Next Version 1, or NV1. Things didn’t go well at first. The Nvidia team ...

The graphics portion of the Diamond Edge 3D was handled by Nvidia's 60MHz NV1 chipset (manufactured by SGS-Thomson as the STG2000), while the integrated MIDI audio engine offered 32-channel ...