Acer Already Planning Builds Based on Nvidia Ion 2 Platform
Acer Already Planning Builds Based on Nvidia Ion 2 Platform
Posted 12/07/2009 at 9:30am
| by Paul Lilly
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According to some chatty sources in the PC industry, Acer has placed orders with Nvidia for the company's upcoming Ion 2 chips, which are being designed to support Intel's Pineview parts (Atom N450, N470, D510, and D410 processors).
This is a somewhat different scenario than with the original Ion platform, which was a chipset with IGP. But Intel's Pine Trail-M (netbooks) and Pine Trail-D (nettop) chips have changed things around by moving the northbridge duties -- memory controller and IGP -- onto the CPU. So this time around, Nvidia's Ion 2 part will be more like a discrete GPU, the sources say.
It's a win-win combo for both sides. Acer's Ion-based AspireRevo nettops have been well received by consumers, and Acer expects the same to be true with its Ion 2-based builds.
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igoka
December 07, 2009 at 10:25am
This is really good news !!!!! I love my AspireRevo very much and it is the cheapest PC . I bought mine for 180 bucks . It has HDMI output so what I did was upgraded to windows 7 Home Premium and then connected it to TV . Now I use it as mediacenter PC.
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