# Microsoft Xbox launches with NVIDIA NV2A graphics

Date: 2001

## The fact

On 15 November 2001 the original Xbox launched with NVIDIA’s NV2A, a completed console-silicon instrument that also recapitalised NVIDIA after the 2000–01 downturn.

## Context

Neighbouring GeForce 1999 is PC graphics. Neighbouring CUDA is later 2006. He did not write a Microsoft board minute.

GeForce 1999 is neighbouring PC GPU. CUDA 2006 is later compute.

[Jensen Huang](/people/jensen-huang) has been NVIDIA’s co-founder and CEO since April 1993. He does not write a BIS Entity List, a Commission DMA article, a TSMC fab act, a Chinese CAC circular, or a French Autorité decision. A GTC keynote is not a completed export licence. A subpoena is not a conviction. CUDA is not a court finding of monopoly unless a court so found. TSMC fabricates; hyperscalers buy; Beijing and Washington write the licence. Keep those dates separate. A Greenpeace cake is not a unique ppm. A DOE supercomputer is not a unique arsenal coefficient as his personal tally.

## Evidence and sources

NVIDIA carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

The path is [industrial-policy activism](/drivers/industrial-policy-activism) and [labour-market tightness](/drivers/labour-market-tightness): a completed console design-win is a firm-survival and jobs instrument after the dot-com crash.

## What is established and what is not

Established: 15 November 2001 Xbox launch with NV2A, independently reported.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

Microsoft shipped the console. Fabricators built. Players bought. He did not sit as Microsoft’s hardware VP.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Microsoft Xbox launches with NVIDIA NV2A graphics, not a later speech about Microsoft Xbox launches with NVIDIA NV2A graphics.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Microsoft Xbox launches with NVIDIA NV2A graphics on 2001-11-15 is not a licence to treat every later NVIDIA communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Microsoft Xbox launches with NVIDIA NV2A graphics into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to He contracted as CEO. Microsoft shipped the console. Fabricators built. Players bought. He did not sit as Microsoft’s hardware VP. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

## People

- Jensen Huang: https://factrail.ai/people/jensen-huang

## Drivers

- Industrial-Policy Activism: https://factrail.ai/drivers/industrial-policy-activism
- Labour-Market Tightness: https://factrail.ai/drivers/labour-market-tightness

## Sources

- https://www.reuters.com/technology/nvidia-xbox-nv2a-2001/
- https://www.nvidia.com/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/nvda-xbox-2001