No More Waiting, Nvidia Officially Unveils Ion 2
No More Waiting, Nvidia Officially Unveils Ion 2
Posted 03/02/2010 at 6:11am
| by Paul Lilly
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We've been talking about it for quite some time now, and at long last, Nvidia today officially announced its next generation Ion graphics processor. According to Nvidia, Ion 2 "will supercharge netbooks" in a big way, offering 10 times the performance of standard netbooks and enabling up to 10 hours of battery life courtesy of Nvidia's Optimus technology.
What exactly is Optimus? Put simply, this is Nvidia's intelligent hybrid graphics technology. Without any user intervention, Optimus-equipped netbooks will select the appropriate graphics engine for the task at hand, switching between the integrated Intel chipset and discrete Nvidia GPU.
Nvidia says there are more than 30 products equipped with Ion 2 expected to launch by this summer. This will not only include netbooks, but small form factor desktops, barebones setups, motherboards, and discrete add-in cards.
The first Ion 2-based system will be Acer's Aspire One 532G netbook, which will be available in April.
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Neufeldt2002
March 02, 2010 at 9:54am
Really? I thought these things were out already? At least the way everyone was talking about them sure made me think so.
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Keith E. Whisman
March 02, 2010 at 8:53am
Ten times faster than slow as paint drying is still pretty slow. But at least you can play some of your games with your graphics settings reduced. I want to see Ion 5 or 6. That is when Netbook graphics will really start to get good.
zakn
March 02, 2010 at 8:45am
In other news ATI continues to kick nVidea's ass in the graphics card front
Scootiep
March 02, 2010 at 6:58am
Hmmm, nVidia using Ion2 to distract from the lack of Fermi much? COME ON nVidia! Make with the products people actually care about. Six months past the original planned release date and you're still talking limited supply when it does finally launch? I am SOOO glad I switched over to AMD/ATI for this round. Until nVidia gets their %#$@ together, I'm off their band wagon for a good long time.
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