A 3 minute presentation on Nvidia to business students. Help!

[Apocalypse23]

Hey guys, just wondering what i could cover in the presentation on nvidia. I was thinkin of company history, range of products and what products may be suitable for business users, and lastly nvidias competition and conclusion. What could I say exactly in 3 minutes and should I use any visuals?

P.S- this is a individual presentation for my finance reports class at BCIT, but our only requirement for the topic is to be business related. I don't know if i should bother mentioning nvidia's stock, or should I? For 3 minutes I wanted to focus more on video cards...anyhow business students rarely know about video cards in my class anyways, so this would be an intro to them all...

Thanks

 

[her209]

Talk about how they rape their customers with high prices and "new" products every 6 months.

 

[Extelleron]

Things you should mention:

-TWIMTBP program signs many developers on to support nVidia
-TWIMTBP program also is often a way for nVidia to pay off developers to make the consumer believe nVidia's cards will perform better in a certain game, or disable features that other companies have, but nVidia does not (such as no HDR+AA in Oblivion)

Just some examples.

 

[Jules]

Originally posted by: her209
Talk about how they rape their customers with high prices and "new" products every 6 months.

lol

 

[Mday]

cost of doing business - nvidia remains an IP company. their manufacturing capabilities are outsourced. this recently changed with certain acquisitions. but their bread and butter remains video graphics, which are not made by them, but designed by them.

diversity - they are primarily computer hardware, and that has not changed at all. they have diversified within their domain of CONSUMER products into PROFESSIONAL\COMMERCIAL graphics. They have also entered into systems with their nForce products and their "set top" box designs.

economies of scale - low end, to high end, charging varying prices for their products end users.

ATI remains nVidia's biggest competitor: video card, set top, embedded video, and mobo chipset.

 

[PingSpike]

Well, if the video forum has taught me anything you should talk about how ATI's cards run hot and have loud coolers and call the other people fanATIcs. Or something like that. You should also take any disagreement with your position as a personal insult.

The video forum is a lot like P&N sometimes.

 

[Mo0o]

Originally posted by: PingSpike
Well, if the video forum has taught me anything you should talk about how ATI's cards run hot and have loud coolers and call the other people fanATIcs. Or something like that. You should also take any disagreement with your position as a personal insult.

The video forum is a lot like P&N sometimes.

You forgot the most important part. Complain to forum issues wheneever someone disagrees with you and call him a bigot

 

[TraumaRN]

Originally posted by: Extelleron
Things you should mention:

-TWIMTBP program signs many developers on to support nVidia
-TWIMTBP program also is often a way for nVidia to pay off developers to make the consumer believe nVidia's cards will perform better in a certain game, or disable features that other companies have, but nVidia does not (such as no HDR+AA in Oblivion)

Just some examples.

I know you like to slam nVidia but that's business for you. They are in the market to make money, if they deceive joe shmoe customer it's not a problem for nVidia(or any company for that matter)

 

[LostWanderer]

Originally posted by: PingSpike
Well, if the video forum has taught me anything you should talk about how ATI's cards run hot and have loud coolers and call the other people fanATIcs. Or something like that. You should also take any disagreement with your position as a personal insult.

The video forum is a lot like P&N sometimes.

Good one I really laughed.

That's hillarious and dead on.

:thumbsup:

 

[Jules]

Originally posted by: Mo0o

Originally posted by: PingSpike
Well, if the video forum has taught me anything you should talk about how ATI's cards run hot and have loud coolers and call the other people fanATIcs. Or something like that. You should also take any disagreement with your position as a personal insult.

The video forum is a lot like P&N sometimes.

You forgot the most important part. Complain to forum issues wheneever someone disagrees with you and call him a bigot

wrong LostWanderer. This is dead on. ha.

 

[tuteja1986]

Talk about the one of the most profitable marketing strategies that NVIDIA uses for Gaming high end Video card. ?Viral Marketing AEG program? .

 

[Sphexi]

Only 3 minutes? Is this a junior high class or something, because in my public speaking class in college I had to give a full 45 minute presentation. 3 minutes would've been a blessing back then.

You could cover NVIDIA's product lines, talk about the different cards and their offerings to the different "levels" of gamers (low-end, middle, hardcore, etc.), or talk about their technical development timelines and how long it takes them to develop brand new technology. Lots of stuff you could cover, you could do hours and hours, much less 3 minutes.

 

[kranky]

If it's for a finance class, don't spend the whole time talking about technical crap. Relate the content to finance!

What business areas are they in?
Do they have products for the entire range of potential customers?
What differentiates them from their competitors?
Where are they a market leader? An also-ran?

 

[0roo0roo]

they rose from just some company to the company that was pushing 32bit color slightly ahead of its time and in theend they were right and pwned 3dfx

 

[Munky]

Oh, be sure to mention how many TWIMTBP games actually run better on other cards, and that their high end cards are always in high demand and/or tight supply, even at $1000 a piece.

 

[Apocalypse23]

I was wondering what I could say about their stock, atleast mention that they are traded on the NASDAQ under NVDA and...what are the prospects of their stock? Would it be advisable to invest just as a last note in the presentation, considering perhaps with the rise of PS3 and a rise in nvdias stock?

 

[Apocalypse23]

bump

 

[tfinch2]

<obligatory>Do your own homework!</obligatory>

 

[EyeMWing]

THREE MINUTES? And you need HELP with that? That's not even enough time for one of my seat-of-my-pants I-didn't-prepare-for-this-at-all introductions while I secretly think up ****** to say about the rest of my slides.