Comments on: Intel Launches New Atom to Beat Down ION

By: Intel’s Results Rocked, But It Can’t Count On the Old Guard – GigaOM

Thu, 14 Jan 2010 22:24:28 +0000

[...] power and cut competitors out of the marketplace. Nvidia wants to make sure vendors can buy and use its Ion processors that accelerate graphics inside netbooks containing Intel’s Atom chips without paying a higher [...]

By: FTC Makes Graphic Claim Against Intel – GigaOM

FTC Makes Graphic Claim Against Intel – GigaOM — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 16:12:25 +0000

[...] one. Nvidia, a relatively new rival for Intel, would like to make sure vendors can buy and use its Ion processors that accelerate graphics inside netbooks containing Intel’s Atom chips without paying a [...]

By: Stacey Higginbotham

Stacey Higginbotham — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 21:33:32 +0000

Jesse, I apparently need both of my cups of coffee before writing in the morning. You’re right it is a chipset. Fixed.

By: Jesse Kopelman

Jesse Kopelman — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 21:21:54 +0000

Stacey, are you sure the GN40 is a core? I’m almost positive it is not. I don’t think it is even on-die with the CPU. Everything I’ve read, including the PCWorld article you link, refers to GN40 as being a chipset and none of them mention it being on-die with the CPU. My understanding is that this is a two chip solution just like Ion — 1 Chip just for CPU + 1 Chip for everything else. The main difference being that GN40 is only being offered bundled with N280, at the moment, while Nvidia 9400M is available for a variety of applications.

By: jkOnTheRun » Blog Archive Bags of Netbook Chips Arriving from Intel, VIA «

Fri, 06 Feb 2009 18:00:04 +0000

[...] Intel is officially shipping their next Atom CPU, the N280-series as of today. Of course, we already knew about that. I guess nobody at ASUS told Intel that pre-orders started for the Asus Eee PC 1000HE earlier in the week. That’s the newest Eee PC (for the next few hours, anyway) which uses said Intel Atom N280. NVIDIA’s ION and AMD’s Yukon competing platforms can drive 1080p video, but I’m not sold that a $400 netbook needs that kind of graphical prowess. Intel must not be sold on that either because the new Atom chipset hardware decodes 720p content. That’s actually something I can’t wait to test since my N270-powered Wind chokes on that sort of stuff. [...]