Newstraders.com meldt dat Steve en Bill in een uitzinnige bui van vrijgevigheid hebben besloten om nVidia een bedrag van 200 miljoen dollar te schenken. Microsoft doet deze betaling om de ontwikkeling van de X-Box video chipset te ondersteunen:
Nvidia (NVDA) will receive $200 million from Microsoft (MSFT) in April as an advance payment for its development of high-performance 3D graphics chips and a multimedia subsystem for the software giant's eagerly awaited X-Box game console, Nvidia said Monday afternoon in a regulatory filing.The cash will function as an advance against graphics chips purchases and for licensing the Nvidia technology, according to Nvidia's Form 10-K, covering the company's fiscal year ended Jan. 30.
After speculation swirled concerning Microsoft's X-Box product, Nvidia announced last week that it would be the supplier of the graphics chip to Microsoft; the chip is said to be able to pull off a trillion operations per second, more than current game consoles on the market.