New Ion platform will feature more shaders

nVidia has tapped into a new market with its Ion platform. By linking their chipsets to the economic Intel Atom processor, the platform is far more versatile in the graphics department. The integrated 9400M videochip that is used on the chipset not only has more power than Intel's chip, but also sports the featuresets for HD video and support for DirectX10 and nVidia's CUDA.

The current Ion is to serve the market until the fourth quarter, later this year. After that it'll be followed up by the Ion 2 chipset, which will feature significantly more graphics power. Where the GeForce 9400M from the first Ion featured 16 stream processors, its successors is to receive 32 or even more. This would make games and CUDA applications run a lot more smoothly. It does however form a new problem: to which extent is Intel's Atom processor capable of keeping up with better-performing graphics chips?

Successor nVidia Ion to feature more shaders

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