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This was interesting to me as I sometimes wondered hth they came up with the name: > At the time, graphics cards were known by two letters, and Priem liked the
by senko 3y ago
This was interesting to me as I sometimes wondered hth they came up with the name:
> At the time, graphics cards were known by two letters, and Priem liked the sound of “NV.” Envy. They called their startup Nvision, which wasn’t a real word and didn’t hint at what they would do. It was perfect. [...] The only problem was that several companies already had similar names, including one that made environmentally friendly toilet paper. Priem reached for his Latin dictionary and found the word for envy. Invidia. He dropped the first letter [...]