Recently, there has been so much talk about NVIDIA's upcoming next-generation graphics cards that we almost forgot that there was also a notebook GPU lineup we should have paid attention to. A product lineup which, as of today, has received new members, with the release of GeForce 9M Series of graphics processors.

The Santa Clara based company has released its new notebook-ready graphics solution to satisfy the increasing demand for high-performance graphics for portable computer systems. The GeForce 9M Series comes with NVIDIA's Hybrid SLI Technology and has been designed to provide notebook users with a high-performance solution capable of powering today's visual applications. As we know, these applications, which include the latest operating systems, photo editing, mapping software, games and HD movies, require powerful graphics processing units.

"Beginning this summer, GeForce 9M GPUs and Hybrid SLI, paired with AMD and Intel CPUs, will enable a new breed of notebooks," said Jeff Fisher, senior vice president of the GPU business at NVIDIA. "These new notebooks will be optimized to deliver a visual experience and raw computing performance that traditional cookie-cutter notebooks with integrated graphics simply can't touch," he added.

The release of the new GeForce 9M Series of notebook GPUs marks NVIDIA's supremacy when it comes to providing users with some of the world's fastest notebook GPUs. The new series will also offer support for the world's first notebooks to feature NVIDIA's Hybrid SLI technology. Thanks to it, one low-power GPU paired with one high-performance GPU will bring to the user two new features, namely GeForce Boost and HybridPower.

Other features of NVIDIA's new mobile GPU lineup include: a new graphics engine designed to deliver up to 40% faster performance than previous generation GeForce 8M notebook GPUs, full support for the latest Blu-ray Profile 2.0 features and Blu-ray Live, and extra display connectivity.

"With the recent addition of advanced features to Blu-ray Live and complexity of DirectX 10 games like Crysis, PC users need more graphics processing performance than today's generic integrated graphics can deliver," said Rene Haas, general manager of the notebook business at NVIDIA.

These new mobile GPUs are expected to power the visual computing experience of the notebooks waiting to be released this summer.