GeForce2 Go

nVidia has introduced the GeForce2 Go, the first graphics processing unit designed for mobile PCs. The GeForce2 Go will offer the chipset's standard 2D, 3D and multimedia features, and target both consumer and corporate mobile users. The core features include hardware transform and lighting, and more than 17 million triangles and 286 million pixels per second. The card will be sold in configurations of up to 32MB of double data rate SDRAM. Other features include nVidia's shading rasterizer, which enables per-pixel lighting and shading effects, and Digital Vibrance Control for bright visuals. Laptop professionals will be able to use the chipset's TwinView architecture for showing information on a laptop as well as a second screen such as another monitor, a conference room projector or a TV. For multimedia and entertainment enthusiasts, the GeForce2 Go features accelerated mpeg-2 and DVD. Support for both OpenGL and Direct3D is also included. The GeForce2 Go is in volume production now. nVidia, in a simultaneous announcement, introduced its first mobile GPU customer, Toshiba America. Laptops featuring the chipset are planned for release in spring 2001.