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Atom is not for Nvidia, says Intel
TG Daily - Hardware News —
... by Nvidia to garner system maker support to help force Intel to open up the Atom platform to competing products from Nvidia (and others), Intel says "No, it's just for Intel chipsets. Period. End of discussion." DigiTimes is reporting that an "internal statement distributed to hardware makers recently" reiterated that Atom CPUs for notebooks and nettops are only available with the bundled i945GSE and i945GC chipsets. There will be no third party chipsets that use Atom. This leaves Nvidia out in the cold with their MCP79 chipset designed for Atom. It seems its up to us ...
Intel says no to Atom for Ion
Fudzilla —
... the chipset in favour of the Nvidia solution, at least not unless Nvidia is footing the bill for the extra Intel chipset. We have a feeling Nvidia is going to have to go back to VIA and beg them for forgiveness for dumping them a little while ago and maybe we'll see an MCP79/VIA Nano system in the future. We wouldn't hold our breath, but Nvidia really needs to find some new markets into which it can sell its products before they lose too much ground in the chipset market. More here
Intel Says, "No Room In The Inn"
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nVidia finds out Intel doesn't want to share. As you probably already know, nVidia has come up with a chipset for Atom processors called Ion. It provides a good deal more video oomph than the Intel 945 chipsets that now gets packaged with every Atom sold, enough to handle HD. Well, Intel is definitely not in the holiday spirit, and has said that it will not sell any Atom without a 945 chipset or cooperate in the least with nVidia when it comes to Atom. The Intel comments do sound like they were drafted by Pre-Ghost Scrooge. nVidia will no doubt try to spin themselves into ...
Intel doesn't want to share Atom with NVIDIA
DV Hardware —
... platform that was shown off last week. DigiTimes reports Intel wants to keep Atom for itself, and refuses to validate the NVIDIA MCP79 chipset for Atom-based nettop or netbook platforms. Intel told hardware makers the Atom CPUs are only to be bundled with its 945GSE and 945GC chipsets. ...
Rumor: Intel Keeping Atom for Itself, Won't Share with Nvidia
Maximum PC —
... to release its Ion platform, a low power netbook solution which would pair the company's GeForce 9400M chipset with Intel's Atom processor. According to Nvidia, users would be able to play popular games on the Ion platform, like Call of Duty 4. The only problem is Intel doesn't appear to have any intention of sharing its Atom processor with Nvidia. According to DigiTimes, an internal statement distributed to hardware makers reiterated Intel's stance that its Atom processors would only come bundled with the chip maker's 945GSE and 945GC chipsets. The news site also claims ...
Christmas Eve Shortbread
The Tech Report: News —
... ) DigiTimes reports Intel insists Atom only for Intel chipsets , does not want to share Nvidia's Ion and AMD RV740 GPU 40nm tape-out ...
Atom Not For NVIDIA: Intel
techPowerUp! —
... too expensive to fit in the market segment originally conceived. NVIDIA's executives have been lobbying with Taiwanese PC makers to garner support for the Ion platform. Intel responded to the report, saying that it had no plans to validate NVIDIA MCP79 on netbook or nettop platforms. Intel also has no plans to form a partnership with Nvidia to support nettop or netbook platforms based on the Intel Atom CPU, the company added. A response is awaited from NVIDIA.
Source: DigiTimes
Intel says no to Nvidia's Ion
bit-tech.net News Feed —
... - Nvidia's plans to pair the infectiously popular Atom CPU with the superior GeForce 9400M integrated graphics chipset. Intel told Digitimes that it has no plans to validate the Nvidia MCP79 chipset on Atom-based nettop or netbook platforms and also said it isn't looking to form a partnership with Nvidia to support nettop or netbook platforms based on the Intel Atom CPU. Considering the almost unanimously positive feedback we have had from our community on Ion's potential following the announcement, this is a very sad situation for potential consumers, modders and PC ...
Intel Atom not inside Nvidia Ion?
Tech-it-On —
... which will combine the power of Nvidia's graphics and Intel's Atom processor for making small power packed PCs. A news article reported by Digitimes says that Intel is knocking back their support by selling Atom processors only with their Intel chipsets and not in a separate single bundle. ...
Intel Denies Trying to Kill NVIDIA's Ion Platform
Tech-Ex —
... The rumor was started by DigiTimes, who said that it had been told by OEMs that Atom CPUs were only available bundled with Intel chipsets. However, ...
Intel have no issue giving NVIDIA Atom CPUs
TweakTown News RSS Feed —
... today that Intel apparently weren't going to allow NVIDIA its break into the Atom market as easily as the green giant first thought. The impression was given that Intel were not going to allow NVIDIA (or any other company) to purchase Atom processors without buying as a bundle, paired with a 945GSE or 945GC chipset. This would be a nasty obstacle for NVIDIA if it were true as the Intel chipsets would be a significant extra expense yet completely useless to them. Further to that, this report at Digitimes stated that Intel also had no desire to validate NVIDIA's Ion platform ...
