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=== 2019 acquisition of Mellanox Technologies ===
{{See also|Mellanox Technologies}}[[File:Nvidia Yokneam Office.jpg|thumb|right|Nvidia Yokneam office (former [[Mellanox Technologies]]) in [[Yokneam Illit]], [[Israel]], March 2023]]
On March 11, 2019, Nvidia announced a deal to buy Mellanox Technologies for $6.9 billion<ref>{{Cite web |date=March 11, 2019 |title=Nvidia to acquire Mellanox Technologies for about $7 billion in cash |url=https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/11/nvidia-to-acquire-mellanox-technologies-for-about-7-billion-in-cash.html |access-date=March 11, 2019 |website=www.cnbc.com |archive-date=November 8, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201108031917/https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/11/nvidia-to-acquire-mellanox-technologies-for-about-7-billion-in-cash.html |url-status=live}}</ref> to substantially expand its footprint in the high-performance computing market. In May 2019, Nvidia announced new RTX Studio laptops. The creators say that the new laptop is going to be seven times faster than a top-end MacBook Pro with a [[Core i9]] and AMD's [[Radeon Pro Vega]] 20 graphics in apps like [[Autodesk Maya|Maya]] and RedCine-X Pro.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Byford |first=Sam |date=May 27, 2019 |title=Nvidia announces RTX Studio laptops aimed at creators |url=https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/27/18641152/nvidia-rtx-studio-laptops-creators-software-computex-2019 |access-date=May 27, 2019 |website=The Verge |archive-date=January 16, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210116225311/https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/27/18641152/nvidia-rtx-studio-laptops-creators-software-computex-2019/ |url-status=live}}</ref> In August 2019, Nvidia announced ''[[Minecraft RTX]]'', an official Nvidia-developed patch for the game ''[[Minecraft]]'' adding real-time DXR ray tracing exclusively to the Windows 10 version of the game. The whole game is, in Nvidia's words, "refit" with [[path tracing]], which dramatically affects the way light, reflections, and shadows work inside the engine.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Minecraft with RTX: The World's Best Selling Videogame Is Adding Ray Tracing |url=https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/news/minecraft-rtx-trailer-screenshots-partnership/ |access-date=April 25, 2020 |website=www.nvidia.com |language=en-us |archive-date=December 13, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201213140636/https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/news/minecraft-rtx-trailer-screenshots-partnership/ |url-status=live}}</ref>