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Nvidia to give $100K prize to most innovative GPU startup

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Hardware powerhouse Nvidia is announcing today it will offer a $100,000 prize to a startup with the most disruptive innovation when it comes to using graphics processing units (GPUs).

A contestant from last year's Nvidia GPU startup competition.
A contestant from last year’s Nvidia GPU startup competition.

The Santa Clara, Calif.-based graphics-chip maker holds an Emerging Companies Summit every year at its GPU Technology Conference, which will take place on March 26, 2014, in San Jose, Calif.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.