GIGABYTE Technology, the worldwide leading IT product provider, unveils its new NVIDIA^® graphics card strategy today. Continuing with its successfulpartnership of NVIDIA nForce based platforms, GIGABYTE now adds to its wide range of products, a series ofNVIDIA GeForce GPU based graphics cards to fulfill the market expectations and customer demands for outstanding graphical solutions on the variouscomputing platforms.

GIGABYTE had in the past one year announced a series of performance motherboards supporting NVIDIA nForce3 150 PRO, NVIDIA nForce3 150, NVIDIA nForce2 400 seriesand NVIDIA nForce 2 IGP, which gained worldwide medias' recognitions. Furthermore, GIGABYTE will be releasing a new series of graphics accelerators supporting the latestNVIDIA GeForce GPU with versatile features and benefits for the enthusiast and the mainstream market.

"GIGABYTE is an award-winning suppier of both graphics boards and motherboard productsand they are indeed an ideal partner for NVIDIA," said Jeff Fisher executive vice president of worldwide sales at NVIDIA. "The fact that they have decided to renew their partnership with NVIDIA and to use our graphics processing units is a testament to our products, our relationships and the support network we have in place forour board partners."

"GIGABYTE is always proud ofproviding quality products with leading technologies to the market. We foresee a synergistic integration with NVIDIA and GIGABYTE to create more consumer benefits toend users when digital home entertainment becomes more and more mainstream in the coming years." said David Chiang, general manager of Gigabyte Channel Business.

Gigabyte graphics accelerators based on the NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900, GeForce FX5600,GeForce FX5200 and GeForce MX 440-8X series of graphics accelerators are expected to be available by early November worldwide. The Gigabyte product range is as follows: