Softpedia
 

NEWS CATEGORIES:



NEWS ARCHIVE >>
SOFTPEDIA REVIEWS >>
MEET THE EDITORS >>
Home > News > Tags > ION 2

Stories about: ION 2


Ultra HTPC from Xtreamer Sells for 249 Euro

The consumer market might be a bit focused on the new graphics card from NVIDIA at the moment, but Xtreamer figured it may as well use this same time to unleash an HTPC upon the worldwide market. Home-theater personal computers have come to be quite widespread among customers that don't have anything stoppin...

26 March 2011
05:00 GMT

Zotac Mini PC Line Welcomes Two New Members

Zotac has been dealing in small form factor systems for a while now, and it seems that it plans to keep at it for quite some time still, its latest release being the Zbox DVD series.While full-sized desktops are what most consumers look for when buying a computer for multimedia and/or gaming, there is still a market...

11 November 2010
10:50 GMT

Habey Readies Atom Nettop with NVIDIA Ion 2 Graphics

Even though the market for nettops is not nearly as large as that of netbooks, or of most, if not all other sorts of desktops, Habey USA decided it would offer Acer some competition by revealing the ENT-6564.Computers come in many shapes and sizes, can be mobile or non-mobile and can be classified according to the c...

13 October 2010
05:22 GMT

New Acer ION 2 Nettop On Sale in the US, AspireRevo

Though it has, more or less, been focusing on the laptop and full-featured desktop markets recently, Acer still had enough time to put together a new nettop, the so-called AspireRevo, which combines the benefits of the Atom platform with NVIDIA graphics.As end-users may or may not know, nettops are compact desktop P...

28 September 2010
05:20 GMT

Commodore USA Revives Commodore C64 With Atom and ION 2

Those end-users old enough to remember the early days of computing will likely know of the Commodore C64, an old-school computer system shaped like a keyboard, and Commodore USA has just been revealed to be working on a replica of it, only with contemporary hardware such as ION 2 and Pine Trail.End-users interested ...

27 August 2010
07:04 GMT

ASUS Eee PC 1015PN ION 2 Netbook Headed to Europe

ASUS may be working on a drove of slates, but it definitely isn't ignoring its other outlets and has almost finished preparations for the unleashing, on the European market, of the Eee PC 1015PN netbook, an entry-level mobile computer based on the Intel Pine Trail platform.Like Acer, ASUS is one of the major pl...

14 August 2010
05:13 GMT

Jetway Gets into the ION 2 Barebone Business

There are quite a number of different types of computers on the market, each targeted at a certain segment of the consumer base, depending on their pricing, availability and, of course, performance and feature set. Desktops and laptops are, naturally, the more widespread of them all. There, are, however, variations ...

9 August 2010
09:25 GMT

ASUS Completes Product Refresh with EeeBox PC EB1501P

This seems to be one of those days, and weeks, when a company or another decides to refresh more than just one product lineup. In terms of motherboards, the outfit can be seen as more than prepared, having unleashed not just the ROG Rampage III Formula, but also the Sabertooth X58. The PC and hardware supplier is als...

6 August 2010
10:06 GMT

ASUS Eee PC 1215N Combines ION 2 and a Dual-Core CPU

Consumers may have been misled into believing that ASUS would leave its entire ION 2 flank to the recently announced Eee PC 1201PN, but this doesn't seem to be the case at all. In fact, if anything, the PC maker seems all the more eager to push the same project forward, especially if it means it can supply the m...

29 June 2010
09:22 GMT

The Shuttle X350 ION 2 Nettop Is Full of Holes

With the ION 2 graphics processing unit, NVIDIA secured a significant portion of the netbook and nettop market, obviously because this component confers a considerable graphics and multimedia prowess upon whatever device it is placed into. This, of course, goes for the Shuttle XS35, a nettop that, according to a repo...

23 June 2010
04:32 GMT

ASUS Eee PC 1201PN Brings ION 2 to US Stores

No doubt, netbook fans and those especially loyal to Acer will be distraught after finding out that the Aspire one 532G will never see the light of day. Said device was once touted as the first ION 2 netbook to ever be officially unveiled, but driver problems related to the NVIDIA Optimus technology appear to have fa...

21 June 2010
04:29 GMT

NVIDIA ION 2-Based ASUS Eee PC 1201PN Up for Pre-Order

There has been much talk of netbooks lately, for several reasons. For one, sales are still growing, but not as rapidly as expected because the market is getting saturated. To remedy this, PC suppliers and chip makers have been doing their best to bring a better performance to next-generation models. One means of achi...

17 May 2010
06:39 GMT

Shuttle Readies ION 2-Based Barebone Nettop

While there are indeed hard-core gamers and enthusiasts that constantly look for top-tier desktop parts, there are also consumers that want decent machines for web browsing and basic office tasks. Nettops are generally employed by such end-users, as they provide the intended functionality without unnecessary but cost...

26 February 2010
10:51 GMT

Pioneer Plans ION 2-Powered Netbook

Pioneer Computers has already tackled the mobile-computing front, having made available an ARM-powered smartbook not long ago, but it seems that the company isn't going to limit itself to just that one small device. Aiming to tackle a larger part of the mobile computing segment, the PC vendor has started working...

22 February 2010
05:11 GMT

Acer Showcases World's First ION 2 Netbook

Just a short while ago, reports emerged stating that Acer would be showcasing the world's first NVIDIA ION 2-powered netbook at the Mobile World Congress and, sure enough, the company did not tarry long in making the official announcement. Just as the reports said, the device is dubbed the Acer Aspire One 532G a...

16 February 2010
02:50 GMT

ASUS Preparing ION 2 Eee PC

NVIDIA has been hard at work developing the ION 2 mobile platform and hardware makers are already being revealed as hard at work implementing the new chipset. The upcoming platform has been described as superior in performance and features to the Pine Trail. Acer was implied to be working on systems based on the ION ...

20 January 2010
08:50 GMT

ASUS Reportedly Plans ION 2 All-in-One

ASUSTek, one of the world's leading vendors of computer hardware and computer systems is looking to update its line of NVIDIA-based nettop systems, with the addition of a new ION 2-based system. The Taiwanese company will adopt NVIDIA's next-generation, low-power ION platform for one of its upcoming all-in-...

19 January 2010
03:47 GMT

Zotac MAG Nettop Reportedly Packs ION 2 Platform

At this year's Consumer Electronics Show, in Las Vegas, Nevada, NVIDIA had a number of new announcements, mainly focusing on its next-generation Tegra processor, designed for small-sized computer systems that pack an impressive performance potential. However, the Santa Clara, California-based graphics chip maker...

13 January 2010
08:08 GMT

ION 2 Ships in 2009 with Support for VIA's Nano Processors

Since earlier this year, there have been reports according to which NVIDIA is planning on releasing the second generation of its ION platform, which is essentially a chipset that allows PC manufacturers to develop low-power and compact computer systems that deliver the necessary performance to run some of today'...

9 October 2009
06:06 GMT

ION 2 to Include Twice the Number of Shaders in ION

According to the latest news on the Web, Santa Clara-based graphics chips maker Nvidia will release the second iteration of its ION platform with two times more shaders than the number featured on the current version. As many of you might already know, ION 2 should land on the market sometime in the fourth quarter of...

3 July 2009
09:03 GMT

NVIDIA CEO Puts an End to VIA Takeover Rumors

Over the past months, there have been a series of rumors surrounding a possible VIA takeover by the Santa Clara, California-based graphics chip maker NVIDIA. The alliance between the two companies is said to be directly aimed at Intel, which currently dominates the market for x86 processors and will soon enter the di...

24 April 2009
06:16 GMT


WindowsGamesDriversMacLinuxScriptsMobileHandheldNews

SUBMIT PROGRAM   |   ADVERTISE   |   GET HELP   |   SEND US FEEDBACK   |   RSS FEEDS   |   UPDATE YOUR SOFTWARE   |   ROMANIAN FORUM