Chipmaker Nvidia offers up fighting words, says Intel's Pineview chip 'won't even be able to do Windows Vista Premium'
Intel may not have officially released the specs of its upcoming Pineview family of Atom CPUs, but that hasn't stopped Nvidia from claiming that its Ion platform will best its Intel counterpart, especially in the areas of high-definition movies and games. In an interview Tuesday, Nvidia product manager Dave Ragones predicted that Ion, a pairing of Intel's Atom CPU with Nvidia's 9400M GPU, will outperform Intel processor-and-graphics bundles by a factor of five to 10 times, as, he said, Ion already does today.
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Intel may not have officially released the specs of its upcoming Pineview family of Atom CPUs, but that hasn't stopped Nvidia from claiming that its Ion platform will best its Intel counterpart, especially in the areas of high-definition movies and games. In an interview Tuesday, Nvidia product manager Dave Ragones predicted that Ion, a pairing of Intel's Atom CPU with Nvidia's 9400M GPU, will outperform Intel processor-and-graphics bundles by a factor of five to 10 times, as, he said, Ion already does today.
More: http://infoworld.com/d/hardware/nvidia-ion-will-outperform-next-gen-intel-pineview-atoms-904