Chief executive and president of Nvidia Jen-Hsun Huang said recently that NVIDIA plans to release a new series video cards for laptops , the GeForce 8, in time for Intel’s Centrino Pro laptop platform launch.

“We are ramping production on our GeForce 8 family of laptop GPUs, the industry’s first DirectX 10 and high-definition video GPU for laptops. GeForce 8 will be the only DX10 GPU shipping in the upcoming Santa Rosa laptop launch,” Mr. Huang said.

The DirectX 10 is the Microsoft’s latest suite of multimedia application programming interfaces (APIs), which improves computer’s in-game and multimedia performance, compared to previous DirectX 9. Many of the PC games scheduled for release in 2007 have been designed to exploit the new graphics features of DirectX 10.