http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/12/nvidia-ion-platform-gets-demonstrated-at-ces/ Engadget Comments for NVIDIA Ion platform gets demonstrated at CES http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2010 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/12/nvidia-ion-platform-gets-demonstrated-at-ces/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/12/nvidia-ion-platform-gets-demonstrated-at-ces/Jan 12th 2009 9:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/12/nvidia-ion-platform-gets-demonstrated-at-ces/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/12/nvidia-ion-platform-gets-demonstrated-at-ces/
This would be great for a CarPC..

Im gunna be keeping my eye on this...]]>Jan 12th 2009 10:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/12/nvidia-ion-platform-gets-demonstrated-at-ces/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/12/nvidia-ion-platform-gets-demonstrated-at-ces/Jan 12th 2009 11:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/12/nvidia-ion-platform-gets-demonstrated-at-ces/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/12/nvidia-ion-platform-gets-demonstrated-at-ces/
Read the article... they played COD4 Story Chapter at 27 FPS. ]]>Jan 13th 2009 1:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/12/nvidia-ion-platform-gets-demonstrated-at-ces/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/12/nvidia-ion-platform-gets-demonstrated-at-ces/Jan 12th 2009 9:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/12/nvidia-ion-platform-gets-demonstrated-at-ces/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/12/nvidia-ion-platform-gets-demonstrated-at-ces/
I had an laptop with a ATI 200M chipset in it that played those games just about at a higher res, and it was a lot slower than this!

]]>Jan 12th 2009 9:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/12/nvidia-ion-platform-gets-demonstrated-at-ces/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/12/nvidia-ion-platform-gets-demonstrated-at-ces/Can't say about L4D but should be the same, both games are made on Source engine.
Yes you can play simple 3D games on it.

The half liter box PC is awesome but now I want to see how well it does when it comes to pricing.]]>Jan 13th 2009 1:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/12/nvidia-ion-platform-gets-demonstrated-at-ces/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/12/nvidia-ion-platform-gets-demonstrated-at-ces/Jan 12th 2009 9:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/12/nvidia-ion-platform-gets-demonstrated-at-ces/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/12/nvidia-ion-platform-gets-demonstrated-at-ces/Jan 12th 2009 10:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/12/nvidia-ion-platform-gets-demonstrated-at-ces/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/12/nvidia-ion-platform-gets-demonstrated-at-ces/
Yuh, it had purplish plastic replaced with white,
wide, trapezoidal interface hammered down to just a narrow rectangle,
and oh, it had its name changed to DVI.


Go to town, pal, go to town.]]>Jan 12th 2009 11:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/12/nvidia-ion-platform-gets-demonstrated-at-ces/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/12/nvidia-ion-platform-gets-demonstrated-at-ces/Jan 12th 2009 9:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/12/nvidia-ion-platform-gets-demonstrated-at-ces/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/12/nvidia-ion-platform-gets-demonstrated-at-ces/
I would hope that it shouldn't take to much more than the awful GMA950, but you never know.]]>Jan 12th 2009 9:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/12/nvidia-ion-platform-gets-demonstrated-at-ces/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/12/nvidia-ion-platform-gets-demonstrated-at-ces/
Ion is for SFF PCs. Tegra is for portable devices. Either way, the chipsets should give a huge boost in performance over Intel chipsets at marginal power consumption cost (no point in, say, a 12hr battery if it can't play HD movies, etc).]]>Jan 12th 2009 9:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/12/nvidia-ion-platform-gets-demonstrated-at-ces/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/12/nvidia-ion-platform-gets-demonstrated-at-ces/
And I would have to agree, losing some battery for FAR better visual performance is worth it, as long as there's a good balance.]]>Jan 12th 2009 9:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/12/nvidia-ion-platform-gets-demonstrated-at-ces/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/12/nvidia-ion-platform-gets-demonstrated-at-ces/Jan 12th 2009 9:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/12/nvidia-ion-platform-gets-demonstrated-at-ces/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/12/nvidia-ion-platform-gets-demonstrated-at-ces/Jan 12th 2009 9:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/12/nvidia-ion-platform-gets-demonstrated-at-ces/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/12/nvidia-ion-platform-gets-demonstrated-at-ces/
The current 1.6ghz Atom can handle Hulu with no problems. ]]>Jan 12th 2009 9:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/12/nvidia-ion-platform-gets-demonstrated-at-ces/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/12/nvidia-ion-platform-gets-demonstrated-at-ces/Jan 12th 2009 9:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/12/nvidia-ion-platform-gets-demonstrated-at-ces/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/12/nvidia-ion-platform-gets-demonstrated-at-ces/Jan 12th 2009 9:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/12/nvidia-ion-platform-gets-demonstrated-at-ces/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/12/nvidia-ion-platform-gets-demonstrated-at-ces/
sounds like you need a reformat after you move in with your autie and uncle in bel-air....]]>Jan 12th 2009 9:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/12/nvidia-ion-platform-gets-demonstrated-at-ces/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/12/nvidia-ion-platform-gets-demonstrated-at-ces/Jan 13th 2009 1:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/12/nvidia-ion-platform-gets-demonstrated-at-ces/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/12/nvidia-ion-platform-gets-demonstrated-at-ces/Feb 11th 2009 7:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/12/nvidia-ion-platform-gets-demonstrated-at-ces/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/12/nvidia-ion-platform-gets-demonstrated-at-ces/Jan 12th 2009 9:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/12/nvidia-ion-platform-gets-demonstrated-at-ces/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/12/nvidia-ion-platform-gets-demonstrated-at-ces/Jan 12th 2009 10:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/12/nvidia-ion-platform-gets-demonstrated-at-ces/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/12/nvidia-ion-platform-gets-demonstrated-at-ces/Jan 12th 2009 10:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/12/nvidia-ion-platform-gets-demonstrated-at-ces/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/12/nvidia-ion-platform-gets-demonstrated-at-ces/Jan 14th 2009 9:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/12/nvidia-ion-platform-gets-demonstrated-at-ces/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/12/nvidia-ion-platform-gets-demonstrated-at-ces/Jan 22nd 2009 8:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/12/nvidia-ion-platform-gets-demonstrated-at-ces/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/12/nvidia-ion-platform-gets-demonstrated-at-ces/
The guy in the video said this reference design is for PCs that use laptop technology. Power efficiency is important either way, but this doesn't seem to be a portable device.]]>Jan 12th 2009 9:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/12/nvidia-ion-platform-gets-demonstrated-at-ces/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/12/nvidia-ion-platform-gets-demonstrated-at-ces/
Lets hope that they get out a model for netbooks and the like.]]>Jan 12th 2009 9:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/12/nvidia-ion-platform-gets-demonstrated-at-ces/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/12/nvidia-ion-platform-gets-demonstrated-at-ces/Jan 12th 2009 9:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/12/nvidia-ion-platform-gets-demonstrated-at-ces/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/12/nvidia-ion-platform-gets-demonstrated-at-ces/Jan 12th 2009 9:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/12/nvidia-ion-platform-gets-demonstrated-at-ces/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/12/nvidia-ion-platform-gets-demonstrated-at-ces/
I forget what the clock is on the 9400M, but its got to be todays average if it can handle 1080p video. ]]>Jan 12th 2009 9:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/12/nvidia-ion-platform-gets-demonstrated-at-ces/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/12/nvidia-ion-platform-gets-demonstrated-at-ces/
Would be good if it had integrated Wireless, but I feel like one of "those" guys who always wants one more feature. HDMI out is great.]]>Jan 13th 2009 10:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/12/nvidia-ion-platform-gets-demonstrated-at-ces/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/12/nvidia-ion-platform-gets-demonstrated-at-ces/Jan 12th 2009 9:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/12/nvidia-ion-platform-gets-demonstrated-at-ces/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/12/nvidia-ion-platform-gets-demonstrated-at-ces/Jan 12th 2009 9:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/12/nvidia-ion-platform-gets-demonstrated-at-ces/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/12/nvidia-ion-platform-gets-demonstrated-at-ces/Jan 12th 2009 9:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/12/nvidia-ion-platform-gets-demonstrated-at-ces/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/12/nvidia-ion-platform-gets-demonstrated-at-ces/
Do a google search for it, it's Nvidia's beta Unix driver that offloads the HD decoding to the GPU. The MythTV users list has been on fire about it for the past two months - Users are reporting very stable runs of 1080p H.264-encoded video on very low powered CPUs with Nvidia GPUs attached - Newegg has a little dual core Atom motherboard and adding a $40 Nvidia (fanless!) PCI card enables it to play full HD with almost no CPU usage.

Now that Nvidia has delivered on their promise of an on-board GPU to couple to the Atom CPU, it's a game changer in the HTPC world. If this mobo & CPU comes out at a good price (say, sub $100) you're looking at a fully HD capable MythTV (and Boxee and XBMC if they port to it) device!]]>Jan 12th 2009 9:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/12/nvidia-ion-platform-gets-demonstrated-at-ces/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/12/nvidia-ion-platform-gets-demonstrated-at-ces/
I love how the gpu dwarfs the CPU there. The atom is like, huddling over on the side of the mainboard cowering in shame.
...so do they put a heat sink over those components or do they just sit there?]]>Jan 12th 2009 10:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/12/nvidia-ion-platform-gets-demonstrated-at-ces/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/12/nvidia-ion-platform-gets-demonstrated-at-ces/
http://www.hothardware.com/articleimages/item1261/big_sff-reference-design-3.jpg]]>Jan 13th 2009 12:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/12/nvidia-ion-platform-gets-demonstrated-at-ces/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/12/nvidia-ion-platform-gets-demonstrated-at-ces/Jan 13th 2009 10:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/12/nvidia-ion-platform-gets-demonstrated-at-ces/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/12/nvidia-ion-platform-gets-demonstrated-at-ces/It really seems to be setup nice for an HTPC though, but if the price is right, I could use a few of these for different purposes.]]>Jan 12th 2009 10:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/12/nvidia-ion-platform-gets-demonstrated-at-ces/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/12/nvidia-ion-platform-gets-demonstrated-at-ces/Jan 12th 2009 10:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/12/nvidia-ion-platform-gets-demonstrated-at-ces/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/12/nvidia-ion-platform-gets-demonstrated-at-ces/Jan 13th 2009 3:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/12/nvidia-ion-platform-gets-demonstrated-at-ces/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/12/nvidia-ion-platform-gets-demonstrated-at-ces/I want to slap him.... ]]>Jan 12th 2009 10:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/12/nvidia-ion-platform-gets-demonstrated-at-ces/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/12/nvidia-ion-platform-gets-demonstrated-at-ces/This is exactly what I've been waiting for. A tiny laptop with a reasonable amount of grunt. Can't touch the desktop but for general apps on the road, this is gonna be killer. :D
Can't wait to see what nVidia do with this.]]>Jan 13th 2009 6:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/12/nvidia-ion-platform-gets-demonstrated-at-ces/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/12/nvidia-ion-platform-gets-demonstrated-at-ces/
I can't wait for the Ion platform to hit the netbooks!! Finally, some decent video acceleration.

Why do all the pictured reference boards have a single-core Atom while it's mentioned that the board uses the dual-core 330 model?]]>Jan 12th 2009 10:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/12/nvidia-ion-platform-gets-demonstrated-at-ces/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/12/nvidia-ion-platform-gets-demonstrated-at-ces/
I think Atom is a terrific processor from a price/performance/energy usage viewpoint, but coupling it with i945 is just abysmal. Ion brings a faster architecture, with the capability to support more than 1 Gb. of RAM, a decent video accelerator, and a greater system bus.

Atom + Ion + 10" Netbook + Windows 7 = Sold.
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