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It may have been the first time that the company engaged in significant marketing embellishment for a major launch—and it worked. Vivoli made the decision not to trademark “GPU” because he wanted other companies to use the term, the idea being that Nvidia had pioneered an entirely new category. Hyperbole would become reality: the GPU moniker became an industry standard and helped Nvidia sell hundreds of millions of cards in the ensuing decades.
