In 2000, Nvidia, Jensen Huang, and Bill Gates, quietly announced Nvidia's new GPU, a second generation: Kelvin architecture.
fabricated on the same TSMC 150nm.
The NV2a chip featuring a new two vertex shader unit.
directx 8.1 new programmable shaders
xbox NV2a chip is the same GPU Architecture of its PC flagship part, the Geforce 4600 ti.
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