NVIDIA Ion 2 platform will support VIA Nano

Posted on Friday, February 20 2009 @ 22:50 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck

NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang told DigiTimes that his company is working on a next-generation Ion platform that will support the VIA Nano processor. Products based on the first Ion platform should arrive within a couple of months, and the Ion 2 platform is expected later this year.

The two companies have reportedly been discussing such a partnership since early 2008, with Drew Henry, general manager of MCP business at Nvidia recently revealing that Nvidia is considering cooperation with VIA Technologies on a low-cost PC platform.

Henry indicated that the first Ion-based PC product for Intel's Atom CPUs will be a nettop priced at US$299, and it will be launched before June this year.

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