Netputing » NVIDIA Ion http://netputing.com Puting up with the Net Sat, 31 Dec 2011 18:25:15 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Nvidia’s Chief Executive Publicly Unveils Pricing of “Ion” Core-Logic – X-bit labs http://netputing.com/2009/07/04/nvidias-chief-executive-publicly-unveils-pricing-of-ion-core-logic-x-bit-labs/ http://netputing.com/2009/07/04/nvidias-chief-executive-publicly-unveils-pricing-of-ion-core-logic-x-bit-labs/#comments Sat, 04 Jul 2009 22:32:50 +0000 admin http://netputing.com/?p=164 Nvidia Corp.’s chief executive officer for the first time publicly unveiled pricing of the company’s GeForce 9400M single-chip core-logic better known as Ion. Based on the information provided by Jen-Hsun Huang now and several weeks ago, it transpires that Nvidia’s platform for Intel Atom processors is up to three times more expensive compared to Intel’s own [...]]]> Nvidia Corp.’s chief executive officer for the first time publicly unveiled pricing of the company’s GeForce 9400M single-chip core-logic better known as Ion. Based on the information provided by Jen-Hsun Huang now and several weeks ago, it transpires that Nvidia’s platform for Intel Atom processors is up to three times more expensive compared to Intel’s own platform.

“[The price of Nvidia Ion chip] is between $30 and $35. This is significant, but it is [needed] to have a good high definition video on the screen.” said Jen-Hsun Huang in an interview with La Tribune news-paper.

Earlier this year Jen-Hsun Huang said that Intel sold its Atom processors for $45 a unit, however, if a customer wanted to get Atom chip and compatible core-logic set, it would get if for $25, which automatically reduces Nvidia’s availability to compete against Intel in the Atom-compatible core-logic market. If the GeForce 9400M/Ion costs from $30 to $35, then the whole bundle consisting of Intel Atom and Nvidia Ion costs from $75 to $80, which is up to 3.2 times higher compared to the cost of Intel’s default Atom package. Still, Nvidia’s core-logic set is much more advanced than Intel’s.

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]]> http://netputing.com/2009/07/04/nvidias-chief-executive-publicly-unveils-pricing-of-ion-core-logic-x-bit-labs/feed/ 0 ION 2 has 2X+ more shaders http://netputing.com/2009/07/02/ion-2-has-2x-more-shaders/ http://netputing.com/2009/07/02/ion-2-has-2x-more-shaders/#comments Thu, 02 Jul 2009 11:48:32 +0000 admin http://netputing.com/?p=144

ION 2 should launch toward the end of the year, but Nvidia doesn’t want to talk too much about it, as it still plans to sell many original ION chips.

Our industry sources have told us that the new, shrunk version of ION, probably branded as ION 2, should have much faster graphics and much more shaders. [...]]]> Image

ION 2 should launch toward the end of the year, but Nvidia doesn’t want to talk too much about it, as it still plans to sell many original ION chips.

Our industry sources have told us that the new, shrunk version of ION, probably branded as ION 2, should have much faster graphics and much more shaders. We don’t believe that the thermals will change that much, but we’ve heard that ION 2 will have more than double the number of shaders of the original Geforce 9400M /MCP79 /ION chip.

Since ION has 16 shaders , or processors as Nvidia calls them these days, you should expect that the new one has more than 32. This will get much better gaming to netbooks and nettops based on ION 2 which is definitely something you cannot say no to and at the same time Cuda applications might run faster, in case you found one that matter to you.

ION 2 should be launching by the end of the year.

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