Nvidia Ion

jellybeard999 · 15 Feb 2009 at 20:03

http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/03/nvidia-ion-platform-review-roundup/

Anyone heard of this before ? Looks awesome for a HTPC setup, with an SSD and fileserver elsewhere.

If the claims about HD etc are true that is.

Kanifee · 15 Feb 2009 at 20:15

That looks quite impressive and should be a great step forword for htpc's. something to blow the popcorn hour out of the water?

gt_junkie · 24 Feb 2009 at 19:36

Just saw these on the NV site!

Look absolutely awesome.

Might even game fairly well too!

Wonder what the power figures @ 100% load are? It states 18w on the NV site so if that's anywhere close to accurate i would be very happily amazed!!! :cool:

gt

Arcane · 24 Feb 2009 at 20:31

Anandtech reviewed it a while back, it'd be great for a netbook.

Invictus · 7 Mar 2009 at 00:10

its not going to be on its own for long as i expect Intel to refresh its line of motherboards, especially with the atom processor so popular with netbook and small form factor manufacturers.
Its been a nice earner for Intel so far and they wont want nvidia spoiling it

nightmare99 · 7 Mar 2009 at 08:16

I wouldn't say Atom has been a nice earner for Intel, they don't want people buying Atom over proper PCs and notebooks. That is the issue I believe they have with Nvidia's Ion, it would make the Atom platform more attractive and would move sales more towards Atom CPUs and away from Celeron/Pentium/C2D/C2Q/i7 processors and chipsets, this is what they fear.

ShaolinDreams · 7 Mar 2009 at 10:06

nightmare99 said:
I wouldn't say Atom has been a nice earner for Intel, they don't want people buying Atom over proper PCs and notebooks. That is the issue I believe they have with Nvidia's Ion, it would make the Atom platform more attractive and would move sales more towards Atom CPUs and away from Celeron/Pentium/C2D/C2Q/i7 processors and chipsets, this is what they fear.

someone's on the ball

Talrinys · 7 Mar 2009 at 10:14

Ion looks awesome, with the next die shrink the Atom processors will be a serious contender in the market, as of now they're just a bit too weak. With DDR3(lower power consumption), SSD(lower power consumption), improved architecture and around 2ghz speeds they should really get up there, and that would probably still bring lower power consumption.

nightmare99 · 8 Mar 2009 at 08:13

Ion looks awesome, with the next die shrink the Atom processors will be a serious contender in the market, as of now they're just a bit too weak.

But they will have horribly crippled integrated Intel GMA whatever, the next generation of Atom (Pineview) will have the northbridge integrated onto the CPU so Nvidia (or anybody) won't be able pair up thier own chipset with it.

someone's on the ball

Err lol I'm confused did I miss something?

james.miller · 8 Mar 2009 at 10:07

nightmare99 said:
But they will have horribly crippled integrated Intel GMA whatever, the next generation of Atom (Pineview) will have the northbridge integrated onto the CPU so Nvidia (or anybody) won't be able pair up thier own chipset with it.

the only repots ive seen so far mention the memory controller and an onboard gpu of some kind. that doesnt stop nvidia add whatever they want to it unless intel go out of their way to disable external gpus and such.

nightmare99 · 8 Mar 2009 at 11:01

What I have seen suggests the whole NB will be integrated with some low power version of ICH7 (tigertown or tigerton?) the only external chip, I'm not sure what PCI-E or PCI lanes will be available for connecting external graphics.

Invictus · 28 Apr 2009 at 00:31

what do you mean not a nice earner

nightmare99 said:
I wouldn't say Atom has been a nice earner for Intel, they don't want people buying Atom over proper PCs and notebooks. That is the issue I believe they have with Nvidia's Ion, it would make the Atom platform more attractive and would move sales more towards Atom CPUs and away from Celeron/Pentium/C2D/C2Q/i7 processors and chipsets, this is what they fear.

Atom has no serious contenders in the netbook arena and it doesnt have the power to beat even an entry level desktop processor. if you look at every netbook on the market then most if not all have atom 270.
Ion only works well with atom as a package, any other processor cancels out the power savings of the motherboard
so with no competition at the moment its a very nice niche market for intel
Intel doesn't fear a move away from the mainstream processors at the moment. It fears not having a strong lineup in any market segment it engages.
what it needs is its gpu to come in and put it together with Atom and produce a fantastic low power high performance nettop solution to fight nvidia Ion.
It has a strong lineup for the foreseeable future