Posted on Wednesday, December 23 2009 @ 21:02 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck
Engadget
received confirmation that NVIDIA's ION 2 will be released in Q1 2010 and that the platform will be compatible with Intel's new Pine Trail platform.
Though we got NVIDIA to confirm that it'll improve some of the battery life concerns we've had, we couldn't get much out of them in terms of how Ion 2 will play with the Intel GMA 3150 GPU that's now integrated into the Atom N450 die. NVIDIA also didn't hold back when it came to Intel's reliance on third-party HD accelerator chips for video duties -- they think customers want richer gaming and multimedia experiences on netbooks than Atom alone can offer, and they don't seem to care that Intel keeps calling Ion "overkill."
