NVIDIA AND ELSA FORM STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP TO TRANSFORM THE WORKSTATION MARKET

Industry Leaders Cooperate to Deliver High-Performance Solution for Graphics
Professionals

SIGGRAPH, NEW ORLEANS - JULY 25, 2000 - NVIDIA Corporation® (Nasdaq: NVDA) and ELSA AG (Neuer Markt Frankfurt: WKN 507 360) announced today the formation of a strategic partnership in the workstation graphics market. NVIDIA and ELSA today signed a letter of intent to combine their workstation expertise to build a complete line of industry leading professional workstation products. The two companies will jointly market a complete line of workstation products, designed and built by NVIDIA. NVIDIA will market directly to all major OEMs, while ELSA will receive the worldwide exclusive distribution rights to market to all other channels, including system integrators, value-added resellers and distributors. As part of the partnership, ELSA's workstation graphics engineering team will join NVIDIA. Further terms of the agreement were not disclosed.

"ELSA is a recognized leader in professional workstation graphics solutions. This partnership is a crucial step in NVIDIA's plan to transform the workstation industry," said Jen-Hsun Huang, president and CEO of NVIDIA. "We intend to combine ELSA's experience and knowledge of the workstation markets with our industry leading graphics technology to offer a world class family of products that solve the challenging graphics needs of the visualization, animation, and CAD professionals."

"The combination of our extensive workstation experience and NVIDIA's breakthrough technology is unbeatable," stated Theo Beisch, president and CEO of ELSA AG. "This agreement will enable ELSA to access the best technology in the world and timely deliver cutting-edge graphics solutions to workstation professionals world wide. This exclusive partnership will enable ELSA to utilize our worldwide brand and channel presence to more
efficiently service our growing international customer base."

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