Not long after NVIDIA revealed the main features of the ION 2 platform, which is set to outmatch even Intel's Pine Trail mobile platform, the latter stepped up to point out those features that may make the former's technology less appealing to netbook buyers. While NVIDIA believes that consumers will be willing to pay for the extra functionality, Intel retorted by saying that there are other ways of running multimedia files, such as third-party decoder solutions. Intel also points out the superiority of Pine Trail when it comes to power efficiency. “To run multimedia you don’t need a huge graphics chip. That’s what those third-party decoder solutions will show in the marketplace. […] In terms of usages, netbooks are not meant for gaming. You can run Internet games fine today with the existing solutions,” said Anil Nanduri, director of netbook marketing at Intel, in an interview with the Laptop Mag website.
NVIDIA may not have been necessarily wrong when it said that end-users would be willing to pay for the extra features boasted by ION. However, what the GPU manufacturer did not succeed in doing was to make the ION power efficient enough to provide a strong enough competition. For instance, the consumption of the GeForce 9400M chip is 18W, significantly more... (read more)
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