14 DAY TRIAL // Acer, one of the world's leading vendors of personal computer systems, is the first company to officially introduce a new product that is based on NVIDIA's ION platform, known as the AspireRevo. However, the Taiwanese company will certainly not be the only player in the market to provide its customers with a considerable graphics boost in the netbook and nettop segment. According to the latest details in the industry, leading PC vendors are expected to roll out their own designs, based on the widely acclaimed NVIDIA platform. These will apparently make their debut as early as June, in time for the Computex 2009 show in Taipei, Taiwan.
As you have probably already found out, NVIDIA's foray in the increasingly popular market for low-power, low-cost and small-sized computer systems, has been enabled by the chip maker's ION platform. This design combines an Intel Atom CPU with an integrated NVIDIA graphics solution that offers roughly the same power specifications as current Intel-based solutions, but delivers a considerable performance boost. The NVIDIA chipset enables system builders to enhance the PC's performance and allow the end-user to take advantage of a higher visual quality.
According to a recent article on pocket-lint, NVIDIA ION-based netbooks should make their debut during this year's Computex show, starting on June 2 in Taipei, Taiwan. Despite no details on the names of the “key” players that will be announcing their own NVIDIA ION designs, it appears that new NVIDIA Ion-based netbooks will be available to users as early as July.
Unlike similar products currently available on the market, these new NVIDIA ION-based PCs will enable users to enjoy 1080p content and play games, all within a solution that is expected to cost below the US$500 mark. If successful, these new PCs will provide the chip maker with a new market segment and leave Intel out of the netbook chipset business it has been dominating for a while now.