Thread: Nvidia ion

It looks strange that a little over a year ago we acquired our initial seem at NVIDIA’s ION a product intended to contribute satisfactory video performance to an all generation of net books and little form factor computers. By using the quality of Intel’s then new Atom processors, the ION was capable to spring onto the public’s radar screen and it remained there for the portion of the year

While we initial checked it the stage was yet in its infancy and was making up introduced in a black NVIDIA-branded box that supported some very base display outputs and graphics practicality. This mention pattern was then sophisticated and elaborated on by many producers like ASUS with their Eee PC 1201N, Zodiac's MAG All in One PC and incalculable others.

The all cause behind the ION is to furnish best video, graphics and practicality than the basic Intel Atom configuration can provide. It was never intended to make the eye-popping vital of higher-end committed graphics cards later the little form factor market simply isn’t pertained with cutting off edge performance.

Consumers seeming for net books and small form factor computer need long battery life and high efficiency matched with satisfactory performance in the relations they utilized most. NVIDIA supposed the Atom rendered everything but the latter of these and so, the ION was born to fill that perceived gap. With high explanation YouTube videos, requiring Flash-based content and other applications requiring more and more of a so soon-overtaxed Atom.

The new ION combined the parts of both a chip set and graphics core into a simple to utilize and cost efficient solution which granted the Atom processors to help to a broader market.

Unluckily, while NVIDIA had a license to develop chip sets for Intel’s FSB structure, the new Pine view-series Atom processors moved towards utilizing the DMI interface when directing most of the I/O operates onto the CPU package. This matched with NVIDIA’s need of a license to produce DMI chipsets in effect defeated off any chance of the first generation ION supporting the newer Atom processors. NVIDIA required coming up with some other plan.