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Ion to Outperform Pineview, NVIDIA Claims

According to an NVIDIA representative, the company’s Ion platform, which combines a low-power Atom processor with a GeForce chipset, will be capable of outperforming Intel's next generation of Pineview Atom processors. The upcoming chips are expected to provide computer vendors with the necessary hardware ...

17 June 2009
08:45 GMT

Exclusive: NVIDIA Talks About GT300, 40nm, Ion and Tegra

During this year’s Computex 2009 show, NVIDIA took the stage with a number of new Ion- and Tegra-based products, showcased by some of the company’s partners. Despite rumors prior to the debut of the computer show in Taiwan, the Santa Clara, California-based graphics maker didn’t reveal any details r...

13 June 2009
04:38 GMT

Lenovo to Launch First Ion Netbook, New CULV Laptop

Lenovo, a leading PC maker that is mostly recognized for its line of business-focused ThinkPad portable computer systems, is expected to announce a couple of new models, including the world's first netbook to be powered by NVIDIA's Ion platform. In addition to this upcoming netbook, the Chinese PC maker wil...

25 May 2009
04:18 GMT

Zotac ION Motherboard Officially Launched and Benchmarked

Since the official debut of NVIDIA's reference Ion platform, there has been a considerable media buzz around this solution, especially since this product is one of the reasons behind the ongoing Intel and NVIDIA dispute. The release of the first desktop PC to incorporate NVIDIA's ION was highly anticipated ...

13 May 2009
04:20 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

Zotac Rolls Out Ion-Based Motherboards

Earlier this month, Acer has officially unveiled the world's first computer system designed to accommodate NVIDIA's highly appreciated Ion platform. It now appears that yet another company has decided to provide its support for the Ion, by releasing a motherboard that will enable users or system makers to p...

21 April 2009
11:02 GMT

Meet Acer's AspireRevo, World's First Ion-Based PC

Early this morning Acer has announced the first nettop computer system that has been designed to incorporate NVIDIA's Ion platform, which combines a low-power Intel Atom processor with an NVIDIA GeForce integrated graphics solution. Despite early rumors that claimed the first Ion-based nettop would be called Hor...

8 April 2009
02:58 GMT

Google, Microsoft, EA Support NVIDIA's ION

Santa Clara, California-based NVIDIA has announced that its ION platform, released late last year, has managed to draw the attention and support of analysts and world's leading software companies, such as Google, Microsoft and Electronics Arts. According to the chip maker, the performance potential of its ION pl...

1 April 2009
09:01 GMT

Intel Goes Against NVIDIA's Ion in Recent Document

Last last week, Santa Clara, California-based NVIDIA released a statement in relation to a recent argument with chip maker Intel, regarding the chipset license agreement between the companies. It now appears that leading chip maker Intel has come up with its own response to the statement NVIDIA released on Wednesday,...

24 February 2009
11:08 GMT

Ion 2 Platform to Support VIA Nano in 2009

With the launch of the Ion platform, NVIDIA has certainly managed, one more time, to catch the attention of the world, as this product is capable of providing the best netbook experience for Atom-based systems. In doing so, the chip maker has gained the appreciation of most netbook fans out there, but has probably en...

20 February 2009
06:41 GMT

Lenovo Planning NVIDIA Ion-Based Netbooks

NVIDIA's Ion platform is apparently just days away from making its debut in the netbook and nettop market, as recent reports indicate at least one system vendor planning the launch of several Ion-based netbooks. According to a Chinese-language Commercial Times report, cited by Digitimes in a recent news-article,...

18 February 2009
05:11 GMT

NVIDIA Enables $99 HD MID, Offers Support for Android

After having announced its support for the increasingly popular netbook category, by releasing the Ion platform, Santa Clara, California-based NVIDIA has just announced its support for Mobile Internet Devices, with the introduction of a new platform based on NVIDIA's Tegra 600 Series Computer-on-a-chip. Accordin...

16 February 2009
07:02 GMT

NVIDIA's Ion and Windows 7 Get Along Just Fine

Santa Clara, California-based NVIDIA has been demonstrating the performance capabilities of its recently announced Ion platform using a beta version of Microsoft's upcoming Windows 7 operating system. Drew Henry, general manager of NVIDIA's MCP Business Unit, has demoed the Windows 7 multitasking support de...

12 February 2009
06:59 GMT

Acer Officially Takes Interest in NVIDIA's Ion Platform

NVIDIA's Ion platform, designed to combine an Atom processor with the graphics capabilities of a GeForce 9400M graphics chip solution, has certainly drawn the attention of many, when it was first released back in December 2008. It also made some heads turn, when it was showcased at this year's Consumer Elec...

12 February 2009
06:23 GMT

NVIDIA Ion Gets Windows Vista Certification

NVIDIA, the world's leading manufacturer of graphics solutions, has just announced that its recently introduced NVIDIA Ion has now been certified for Microsoft's latest operating system, Windows Vista. With the announcement, NVIDIA's small form factor, low-power computer system will now be ready to pro...

12 February 2009
04:08 GMT

NVIDIA CEO Talks of Atom, Ion, Tegra and Netbooks

NVIDIA's CEO, Mr. Jen-Hsun Huang, has recently talked about some of the new technologies that have emerged in the computer system market, including Intel's Atom, VIA's Nano and NVIDIA's very own Ion platform. In a more extensive interview with Laptop Magazine, Mr. Huang talks about the future of t...

28 January 2009
06:48 GMT

NVIDIA Says Ion-Based PCs Are on Their Way

Rumors of upcoming NVIDIA Ion-based PCs have started since the Santa Clara, California-based company first introduced the product, back in late December 2008. Such systems are expected to combine Intel's highly-successful Atom processor with NVIDIA's MacBook-friendly GeForce 9400M graphics chipset. The plat...

23 January 2009
04:56 GMT

NVIDIA Ion Recognized as “Best Enabling Technology”

One of the biggest innovations showcased at this year's International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada was NVIDIA's Pico ITX Reference PC, designed to take advantage of the company's Ion platform. The small-sized platform is capable of delivering an impressive performance, while it uses c...

20 January 2009
11:01 GMT

NVIDIA Ion Is Heading to Apple's Mac Mini

According to a recent news-article on Tom’s Hardware, NVIDIA could be powering another Apple system, namely the highly-anticipated Mac Mini. It appears that said system will be built on the chip maker's Ion platform, which combines the highly-successful Intel Atom processor, designed for netbooks, and the ...

16 January 2009
06:44 GMT

Mac Mini Upgrade Still On, NVIDIA Partner Confirms

Apple is expected to refresh its line of mini desktop computers sometime around March this year, NVIDIA insiders have confirmed to the folks at tom's hardware. The device is allegedly smaller in size, thanks to the Ion platform it employs. Apple is also believed to have gained preferential treatment from NVIDIA,...

16 January 2009
06:35 GMT

NVIDIA Unveils Performance Stats for the Ion Platform

Back in late 2008, we caught a glimpse of NVIDIA’s response to the increasingly popular market for low-power, low-cost computer systems. The Ion is a small-form factor PC platform that basically combines Intel’s highly successful Atom processor with an NVIDIA GeForce 9400M graphics chip, delivering the pe...

13 January 2009
02:59 GMT

NVIDIA's Ion Sees No Love from Intel

The recently unveiled NVIDIA Ion platform for Intel's Atom processor is said to be unable to gain too much attention from the giant chip manufacturer. It seems that Intel does not plan to offer support for other chipsets than its 945GSE and 945GC, the power efficient CPU comes bundled with. Moreover, the world&#...

28 December 2008
03:00 GMT

NVIDIA, Intel and the Netbook Market

Last week NVIDIA announced the debut of its ION platform, which essentially drove the chip maker into the world of small-sized, low-power computer systems, also known as netbooks and nettops, a market that, up until now, has been the playground for Intel's highly successful Atom processor. However, the two Santa...

22 December 2008
03:23 GMT

Hands On with the NVIDIA ION

Despite the fact that we are already in Q4, it looks like NVIDIA is really having a busy end of the year. The chip maker is getting ready to launch some highly anticipated products, the GTX 285 and the GTX 295 to be more specific, which are to become the company's highest-performance desktop computer graphics ca...

17 December 2008
09:46 GMT

Sun's Hydrogen Atom Weapon

Perhaps not many of you remember the agitation caused two years ago by a massive solar flare on December 5, 2006. It was an X9 event on a scale where an X1 is still considered very powerful, but X20 phenomena have been observed, fortunately scarcely enough. The one in 2006 was the most powerful in the last three deca...

17 December 2008
06:41 GMT

Plasma Cloak Region of the Magnetosphere Found

A new research performed by a team of specialists led by Charles Chappell, research professor of physics and director of the Dyer Observatory at Vanderbilt University, collected and analyzed the data resulted from the observations of five different satellites. The data were related to the composition and behavior of ...

13 December 2008
19:01 GMT

NASA's Dawn Spacecraft Shuts Down Engines

The Dawn spacecraft, a NASA mission to the main asteroid belt, recently shut down its ion engines, according to the schedule, NASA officials announced. The three top notch propulsion systems may be switched on again in January in order to adjust the craft's orbit as it will near Mars, its first target during the...

22 November 2008
18:31 GMT

Insects Have an Alien Type of Olfaction

Many aliens in the SF movies are inspired from insects; or perhaps vertebrates represent strange aliens for them. A new study to be published in "Nature" by a team of researchers from Rockefeller University and the University of Tokyo adds another proof of the fact that insects have evolved very differently from othe...

14 April 2008
04:49 GMT

Mystery Solved: How Anesthetics Work

This is a great mystery that has been finally solved: how do most anesthetics work. And it started with almost the only anesthetic our grandparents could name, the chloroform, which has been used for over 150 years. The discovery was made by accident by Leeds University Dr. Yahya Bahnasi."We take general anesthesia f...

2 April 2008
02:41 GMT

High End Gaming Computers - Uberclock, Uberperformance, Uberprice

Most users that decide to replace their older machines with new computers are going to some dedicated system integrator and choose from a wider or narrower selection of products that, when it comes to price and performance, may range from low end systems that are available for petty change to state of the art gaming ...

13 September 2007
05:00 GMT

How to Protect Astronauts from Sun's Radiations

One of the most important dangers of outer space missions, invisible and highly lethal, prevents humans from reaching Mars. It's not an alien creature lurking in the darkness of space, but maybe just as bad. Radiation is one of the biggest dangers to long-distance space travelers. The sudden, unpredictable occu...

28 May 2007
04:26 GMT

New Materials For Twice as Powerful Lithium Batteries

The biggest drawback of most portable electronic devices, such as notebooks, cellphones, PDAs and many others is the fact that they become useless after the rechargeable batteries completely discharge.Unfortunately, the devices themselves have known huge developments, while their batteries remain a source of discon...

8 May 2007
04:02 GMT


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