Always irks me that nVidia claims they invented the GPU. Graphics hardware, including hardware T&L, existed long before nVidia was around. From the press releas

Always irks me that nVidia claims they invented the GPU. Graphics hardware, including hardware T&L, existed long before nVidia was around. From the press release: > NVIDIA's (NASDAQ:NVDA) invention of the GPU in > 1999 sparked the growth of the PC gaming market, > redefined modern computer graphics and revolutionized > parallel computing. Errrrr, okay. From Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeForce_256 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeForce_256 > GeForce 256 was marketed as "the world's first 'GPU', > or Graphics Processing Unit", a term Nvidia defined at > the time as "a single-chip processor with integrated > transform, lighting, triangle setup/clipping, and > rendering engines that is capable of processing a > minimum of 10 million polygons per second."[2] That's a bit like Honda claiming they invented the automobile because they came up with their own definition of "automobile" that just happens to fit one of their autos. Certainly, the Geforce series did some things first. It was the first to cram certain things onto a single chip and target it at the consumer market. But their claim to have "invented the GPU" is just silly.