Published: Tuesday 9th December, 2008 | Author: Parm Mann
Companies: Intel (All Intel content), NVIDIA (All NVIDIA content)
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According to Chinese newspaper DigiTimes, PC vendors have suggested that Intel and NVIDIA are hard at work in an effort to bring support for Intel's Atom processor to NVIDIA's MCP79 chipset.
It is believed that such configurations will first appear in nettop form from the likes of ASUS, GIGABYTE and MSI. Looking further on, the surprise collaboration could ultimately result in netbooks with far-greater graphics capabilities than the current crop.
NVIDIA's MCP79 chipset provides integrated graphics based on NVIDIA's GeForce 9300 or GeForce 9400 series GPUs. If it manages to shrink the technology into a form factor suitable for today's netbooks, it'd offer graphics power far beyond that available on Intel's current Atom-based chipsets.
It isn't likely to bode well for battery life, but a 10in netbook with a GeForce GPU and Intel Atom processor would be far more potent and lift some of the restrictions on today's netbook solutions.
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Then again, there's the Athlon 64 2000+ which might hold that role already.Quote
Although I dread to think what that'd do to the price :(Quote
How much can this chipset deal with - would they still need the intel 945 inefficient brute? Atom+IGP+low power chipset = win.
thats the sticker, if the 945 is still in there then its just another asus N10, if this is a full nvidia chipset then it has potential to become the "must have" for people looking for netbooks.
lets see them do it on a mini-itx while there at it :)Quote
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