digitimes.com - 12/17/2008
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Drew Henry, general manager of MCP business at Nvidia, recently visited Taiwan to negotiate with Taiwan PC makers for their support in forcing Intel to allow Nvidia's MCP7A and MCP79 chipsets into the Atom platform ecosystem.
digitimes.com - 12/24/2008
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digitimes.com —
Nvidia's recent move to try to extend Intel's
Atom ecosystem to its recently announced Ion platform appears...
to have been knocked back by Intel, according to a response primarily directed at PC manufacturers as seen by Digitimes.
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Intel insists Atom only for Intel chipsets, does not ...
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DigiTimes writes NVIDIA and Taiwanese PC makers are forcing Intel to make the Atom platform more open, so they can release nettops with NVIDIA's GeForce 9400M chipset. Lots of info about the upcoming NVIDIA Ion platform for ultra-small computer systems was unveiled today, but apparently there are still some problems as ...
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