Nvidia’s solution to the Atom
Posted on 31. Jan, 2009 by Simon Whiston in General News
Carrying on from my previous post The CEO of Nvidia Jensen wanted to provide an alternative to the Atom processor. If I remeber correctly, Nvidia tried to created a processor to beat the Atom within the same market the netbook/ webbook.
Nvidia have gone down a similar route, providing a cheap PC solution. The Ion as he prefers to call it will be priced at $400, adding that the GPU for the platform would range from $30 to $40 and would replace both the north and south bridge! GPGPU maybe? This would bring the cost dont dramatically creating a low cost all round pc.
Husnag continued by explaining that Intel and Nvidia are technology component company’s. “I thought OEMs were supposed to mix and match technical components and build various products as a result”. He then added that Intel have closed their atom to only using Intel Chipsets, which is a totally different affair compared to P.C. Intel uses Nvidia, Nvidia Uses Intel but Intel have tried to dominate that market and restrict their users.
The CEO carried on by introducing the AMD Neo processor. By using the Neo processor along with Nvidias offerings, the platform would crush Intels hardware.
It seems Nvidia have thought about this, by offering alternatives at lower costs with more performance, Intel should see this as a threat to their existing netbook market.
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