RIVA 128
product on 4 shows · 4 statements across 3 episodes · said 37 times in 8 episodes since 2022
Acquired 28 
Founders 5 
How I Built This 3 
TBPN 1
Mentions by year, every show
tap a year for its mentions
Acquired 28Founders 5How I Built This 3TBPN 1
2026 4 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
2025 7 mentions in 2 episodes 4 per episode
2023 17 mentions in 2 episodes 9 per episode
2022 9 mentions in 2 episodes 5 per episode
every mention on every show, scene by scene, with the transcript →
4 statements about RIVA 128, every show
Jensen Huang Ordered Software Built Before Silicon, Saving a Year
“Jensen decree that NVIDIA would have to develop their driver software for the Riva one, two, eight before the prototype chip was completed. This was a reversal of the customary process. This would say shave nearly a year off the production timeline.”
Huang: NVIDIA's RIVA 128 chip design methodology became the industry standard
“The number of smart decisions we made, which are smart to this day, how we design chips is exactly the same to this day. Because, gosh, you know, nobody's ever done it back then, and we pulled every trick in the book in a desperation because we had no other ch…”
Rosenthal: Nvidia spent $1M on emulation hardware during its cash crunch
“They had to spend a million dollars just to get the emulator, you know, hardware and software to do this.”