NVIDIA Team With VIA For Low Cost Platform
Category: ManufacturersPosted: April 10, 2008 06:10PM
Author: jammin
With Intel pushing out plenty of marketing material to support its new Atom processors, NVIDIA are teaming up with VIA to produce a low cost platform which offers several advantages over current Intel Celeron based platforms using the 945IGP and ICH4 chipset. Just a coincidence that NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang had criticisms for Intel's integrated graphics solutions earlier today then? Flamboyant company bosses aside, the NVIDIA / VIA platform claims to be "The World's Most Affordable Vista Premium PC", with support for Blu-Ray HD and DirectX 10 at a cost less than $45. Word is that VIA's new Isaiah chip is comparable in performance terms to Celeron-M or Pentium-M processors running at similar clock speeds. I guess that would be NVIDIA comparing a new platform to something that has been around for a while (surely they wouldn't want to mislead anyone!), with the real test being how the offering will stack up to Intel's upcoming Atom based equivalents. Either way, it seems that the bottom line is where the action has been recently.. recession anyone?
