Nvidia pressures Intel with Ion - bit-tech.net Forums

Tim S · 11th Jan 2009, 19:44

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2009/01...tel-with-ion/1

CES 2009: Drew Henry, Nvidia's General Manager of MCP products, has said that Intel will allow partners to build netbooks based on Nvidia's Ion platform.

yakyb · 11th Jan 2009, 20:28

heres hoping to ion being availible on its own (for system builders)

bowman · 11th Jan 2009, 21:12

Oh yeah, 16 execution pipes in the 9400M.. That's gonna 'harness' a lot of CUDA applications alright!

http://techreport.com/articles.x/15940

Tech Report found in their testing that the Atom bottlenecks even a 9300M dedicated card. This is pointless!

The Poulsbo chipset is great for HD media, and that's what the Atom needs. Not this.

Goty · 11th Jan 2009, 22:41

Shouldn't the tag-line be "wants to ionize the atom"? =P

s3v3n · 12th Jan 2009, 01:28

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they will pay the same for the Atom processor on its own as it would for the full Menlow kit and just not ship the chipset with the CPU

So what's keeping them from doing it now? Just throw away the chipset, or are they afraid of not being green?

steveo_mcg · 12th Jan 2009, 09:46

Quote:

Originally Posted by s3v3n

So what's keeping them from doing it now? Just throw away the chipset, or are they afraid of not being green?

Cost. They're worried they would be uncompetitive with intel and they are correct given they have paid the same as any one else for their atom platform then they need to add more bits to it. The product wouldn't just command a premium it would be expensive. Now while you and I might see the advantages and spend the money for the better unit, you and I are not were the money is, they need to sell these competitively to oem/system builders.

Saivert · 12th Jan 2009, 22:59

I still wonder what Intel is doing with so many outdated chipsets in stock. Haven't they used them up already back when they were used in laptops? (rhetorical question) Is Intel always overmanufacturing chipset parts?

I know Intel doesn't want to lose profit on pairing up Atom with NVIDIA but this deal is just silly. Please give the customers what they want. Anything else would be horrendously stupid.

bigsharn · 12th Jan 2009, 23:11

It'd still be a LOT better a computer if Intel let them use dual core Atom chips... that, in the EeeBox would be brilliant

bigsharn · 12th Jan 2009, 23:28

Sorry, firefox crashed, restarted, re-posted, delete appreciated?

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12th Jan 2009, 22:59	#7
Saivert Multimodder Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Norway Posts: 203	I still wonder what Intel is doing with so many outdated chipsets in stock. Haven't they used them up already back when they were used in laptops? (rhetorical question) Is Intel always overmanufacturing chipset parts? I know Intel doesn't want to lose profit on pairing up Atom with NVIDIA but this deal is just silly. Please give the customers what they want. Anything else would be horrendously stupid. __________________ - I'm the troll who bumps page 2 topics - Last edited by Saivert; 12th Jan 2009 at 23:02. Reason: more to the point

11th Jan 2009, 21:12	#3
bowman Multimodder Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 249	Oh yeah, 16 execution pipes in the 9400M.. That's gonna 'harness' a lot of CUDA applications alright! http://techreport.com/articles.x/15940 Tech Report found in their testing that the Atom bottlenecks even a 9300M dedicated card. This is pointless! The Poulsbo chipset is great for HD media, and that's what the Atom needs. Not this.

11th Jan 2009, 22:41	#4
Goty Supermodder Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Dacula, GA USA Posts: 302	Shouldn't the tag-line be "wants to ionize the atom"? =P