2007 - A Highly Successful and Award-Winning Year 2007 proved to be another extremely successful year for PNY Technologies and NVIDIA. Starting with the much anticipated launch of a complete new range of NVIDIA Quadro FX by PNY graphics boards based on NVIDIA’s innovative unified GPU architecture, through to NVIDIA’s revolutionary Tesla™ line of GPU computing solutions, NVIDIA has demonstrated once again that they are the world leader in visual computing technologies. Throughout 2007 NVIDIA’s innovative technology was recognized with numerous awards. The year began auspiciously in January 2007 when NVIDIA was presented with the prestigious Technology & Engineering Emmy® Award from the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. In April, NVIDIA was honored with the EE Times Annual Creativity in Electronics (ACE) Award. Then at SC07, NVIDIA not only received the coveted "Best of What's New" award from Popular Science but also three Readers' and Editors' Choice awards from HPCwire. The year concluded with NVIDIA Tesla receiving the Technical Excellence Award from PC Magazine and NVIDIA being voted Forbes “Company of the Year.” New Products Launched in 2007 PNY introduced the next generation top to bottom refresh of the NVIDIA QUADRO FX graphic boards based on NVIDIA’s ground breaking unified architecture for advanced visualization. Designed to meet the challenges of the most complex 3D design, DCC, visualization, scientific, and broadcast applications, the new family of NVIDIA Quadro FX by PNY high performance graphics boards offer a new unified architecture, Shader Model 4.0 technology, large frame buffers, and GPU computing for visualization technology. PNY launches two new NVIDIA Quadro® Plex Models: NVIDIA Quadro Plex 1000 Model IV – A new version of the NVIDIA Quadro Plex visual computing system (VCS), which incorporates the unified architecture and GPU computing capability of NVIDIA Quadro FX 5600 GPUs and the G-Sync II was launched in May. NVIDIA Quadro Plex Model S4 - Introduced at Siggraph 2007, this new server takes visual compute density to new extremes by incorporating four NVIDIA Quadro® FX 5600 professional GPUs in an industry-standard 1U rack configuration. New NVIDIA® Tesla™ GPU Computing Solutions for HPC Revolutionary NVIDIA® Tesla™ high performance computing (HPC) solutions arm scientists, engineers and other technical professionals with the power to solve previously unsolvable problems. A dedicated, high performance GPU computing solution, Tesla brings supercomputing power to any workstation or server and to standard, CPU-based server clusters. Related Press Releases PNY Technologies ® Delivers New Breakthrough NVIDIA QUADRO® FX 4600 and QUADRO FX 5600 Solutions For Advanced Visualization PNY Technologies®’ New Family of NVIDIA Quadro® Professional Solutions Now Shipping Read all 2007 Press Releases here 2007 Product Reviews In Issue 60 of Reseller Advocate Magazine, William Van Winkle outlines the benefits of using a workstation for digital video editing as opposed to a desktop. “OpenGL is at the heart of why digital video systems benefit from workstation graphic boards over consumer cards. Without question, the most prevalent brand of workstation graphics board in the digital content creation (DCC) and non-linear editing (NLE) markets is NVIDIA's Quadro FX graphic boards.“ Read complete article here. Desktop Engineering Review of NVIDIA Quadro FX 4600 by PNY Technologies New Graphics Power We test the NVIDIA Quadro FX 4600 ultra high-end graphics board based on an all-new NVIDIA graphics processor. By David Cohn NVIDIA recently sent us its Quadro FX 4600, one of two new ultra high-end graphics cards announced in February. Both the FX 4600 and the even more powerful Quadro FX 5600 are based on NVIDIA’s new G80 GPU architecture, first introduced last November in the company’s GeForce 8800 GTS and GTX cards. Both of the new Quadro boards are targeted at high-end users who need interactive display of large, complex models, including automotive and aerospace design, oil and gas exploration, and scientific visualization. Read full article here NVIDIA Quadro by PNY Graphics - Making an impact in Film, HD Broadcast and Science Whether it’s scientists from leading Universities looking for the ultimate advanced visualization graphics solution, producers for high rating cable stations demanding real-time capabilities and HD – SDI output or award-winning studios requiring color work and special effects, throughout 2007 NVIDIA Quadro by PNY graphics solutions have proven once again that they are the # 1 graphics solution of choice. Purdue University’s Envision Center for Data Perceptualization, recognized worldwide as a leader in scientific visualization and human computer interaction, relies on NVIDIA Quadro FX by PNY graphics boards to drive both its large passive stereoscoptic tiled wall display and Flex™ (cave-like) environment. Read more Technicolor® Creative Bridge, a pioneer in location-based production services, chose the NVIDIA® Quadro® SDI by PNY Technologies® graphics boards for its state of the art Mobile Digital Lab and Theatre (MDLT) used in the production of ESPN™’s new HD miniseries “The Bronx is Burning”. Read more Threshold Digital Research Labs (TDRL), a groundbreaking global digital animation and effects production studio, has standardized on high performance NVIDIA Quadro FX by PNY graphics boards to achieve a more efficient method of production on its latest project, Food Fight! a full length animated film. Read more To read more case studies click here 2007 Event Highlights At Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference (I/ITSEC), in the Analytical Graphics Inc (ASI) booth, the immense power of the Quadro Plex model IV was showcased running ASG software with real-time satellite tracking models. Other PNY Partners demonstrating how the NVIDIA Quadro professional graphics solutions can be used for military simulation and training purposes included Barco Simulations, Concurrent, InterSense, Leading Technology Micro, Planar Systems and others. At NAB 2007, visitors experienced why NVIDIA® Quadro® FX by PNY professional graphics solutions have become the industry standard for HD broadcast, television, film and video production. Read more At Siggraph 2007, PNY demonstrated why its ultra high-end scaled graphics solutions are the perfect advanced visualization solutions for animation, on-air broadcast graphics, visual effects, film color grading and scientific visualization. Read more At HD World 2007, visitors learned how the NVIDIA Quadro FX SDI by PNY graphics solutions enhance HDTV broadcast programming with HD-SDI graphics-to air, for a variety of solutions including character generation and real time HD virtual sets for news, sports, and weather. Read more At SC07, attendees witnessed for the first time the revolutionary NVIDIA® Tesla™ high performance computing (HPC) solutions in action. NVIDIA Quadro Plex and the ultra high performance NVIDIA Quadro FX by PNY professional graphics boards were showcased driving sophisticated advanced visualization applications. Read more Newsletter The PNY Quadro Newsletter is a free monthly newsletter that provides you with the latest product news, technical tips, case studies and valuable special offers. Read previous newsletters here If you have friends or colleagues who would like to subscribe to the PNY Quadro newsletter please forward them this link: http://www3.pny.com/Newslettersignup/index.aspx