Friday, February 20th 2009

NVIDIA Confirms Ion Platform for VIA

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NVIDIA CEO and president Jen-Hsun Huang has revealed to DigiTimes that in 2009 NVIDIA will launch an Ion platform called ION 2 that will support VIA Technologies' Nano CPUs. Huang also noted that the platform is already in development, and it is only a matter of technological time until the final product arrives. VIA Nano are the first 64-bit, superscalar VIA processors. The VIA Nano chips range in clock speeds from 1 GHz to 1.8 GHz and with a proper video support from NVIDIA we can have a winner in the ultra portable world. This will also give nettop and netbook manufacturers an option of building a non-Intel platforms.
Source: DigiTimes

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15 Comments on NVIDIA Confirms Ion Platform for VIA

#1
xkche
Jajaja a esto le llamo pedir perdon..... :respect:
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#2
ShadowFold
The first step in nvidia's plan to buy out VIA and get their X86? I hope they jump on the CPU bandwagon :toast:
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#3
LittleLizard
xkcheJajaja a esto le llamo pedir perdon..... :respect:
yo creo que nvidia ta desesperdado por conseguir algun mercado que le genere ganancia

In english: i believe that nvidad is desperate in find a profitable market
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#4
Roph
I think there'd be licensing complications if NV did that.

Either way, intel should have seen this coming when they told NV where to stick it at the ION+Atom prototype.
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#5
Keiki
Competition = good!

get it to <$400 and we're good
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#6
btarunr
Editor & Senior Moderator
Nice, I see NVIDIA taking a pinch at Intel by naming an Atom-competitor based platform Ion "2".
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#7
TheMailMan78
Big Member
btarunrNice, I see NVIDIA taking a pinch at Intel by naming an Atom-competitor based platform Ion "2".
I just wish the VIA was a "better" platform. The more competition the better. VIA is like the Ron Paul of the CPU world.
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btarunr
Editor & Senior Moderator
TheMailMan78I just wish the VIA was a "better" platform. The more competition the better. VIA is like the Ron Paul of the CPU world.
If indeed Intel locks NVIDIA out of its next-gen QPI-based Atom successor, it only sounds plausible that NVIDIA-VIA platform emerges as the better option. You will be able to use a VIA + MCP79 based netbook to rip iPod videos using Badaboom quicker than what a Dual-core Atom + < insert predictably crappy Intel IGP here > would. 3D apps and videos will run better anyway, so will even Photoshop. Leaving VIA+NVIDIA as the better netbook/nettop platform.
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#9
xfire
Ion for AMD platform?(whenever AMD will release it)
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#10
PP Mguire
Whatever happend to Nvidia's Tegra for the mobile phone/smart phone devices?
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#11
crazy pyro
I'm pretty sure AMD said they weren't doing netbooks as they weren't worth having, although that wa a few months ago.
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#12
xfire
they do have one for netbook. The one with the 790G
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#14
xfire
RIAAA would be after VIA then. More lawsuits to fill the lawyers pockets.
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#15
AsRock
TPU addict
RophI think there'd be licensing complications if NV did that.

Either way, intel should have seen this coming when they told NV where to stick it at the ION+Atom prototype.
There making the mobos for them not the CPU's so should be a no issue. If i'm right they would only be in trouble if they made cpus.
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