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Nvidia CEO Sounds Off on Netbooks, Ion Platform, Tegra, and MIDs
Nvidia CEO Sounds Off on Netbooks, Ion Platform, Tegra, and MIDs
nvidia_sh2 Just over a month ago, we sat down with Nvidia’s product manager, Dave Ragones, to discuss the company’s freshly announced Ion platform , which pairs Intel’s netbook-friendly 1.6-GHz Atom processor with Nvidia’s GeForce 9400M GPU. In that conversation, we discussed Ion’s cost, ...
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The Official ASUS Eee PC Group
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NVIDIA Graphics Update 2009
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Intel will design PlayStation 4 GPU
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CEO of NVIDIA talks netbooks
CrunchGear — ... In an interview with Laptop Magazine, NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang talks about the current state of netbooks, his company’s new Ion platform, rumors about Intel’s supposed strong-arming of device manufacturers, and other netbook and MID platforms from AMD, VIA, along with the probability behind netbooks powered by NVIDIA’s own Tegra platform. ...

NVIDIA CEO: Netbooks are just crippled computers
Liliputing — ... think if you ask most of the people who read this blog regularly, they’ll tell you that a netbook is a small, light, and low cost computer. But companies that make a lot of money by selling state of the art computer components have a tendency to say that netbooks don’t work very well as computers. The latest person with a vested interest in making you believe that is NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang, who tells Laptop magazine that mini-laptops with the Intel Atom processor don’t run “anything well” from Electronic Arts, Adobe, or Microsoft. ...

Ion netbooks from $399; AMD Neo could ‘crush’ Atom says NVIDIA CEO
SlashGear — ... - that couples an Intel Atom CPU with a NVIDIA GPU - have a target price of just $399, and will give customers the “full PC experience” rather than the “inferior” performance of current devices.  That’s the opinion of NVIDIA’s plain-talking cofounder, president, and CEO, Jen-Hsun Huang, who has been talking with LaptopMag about the proliferation of mobile devices and ultra-low voltage chipsets.  According to Huang, today’s netbook is “a low-cost PC that doesn’t work that well” and that is in fact ...

Every OEM Is Doing a Design Around Nvidia Ion - Nvidia's Chief Executive
X-bit labs — ... The buzz around Ion is really high, almost every single OEM in the world is exploring it. The experience is so dramatic compared to an Atom platform without it. And the incremental investment is so low that every OEM is doing a design around it. It s a disruptive platform in lots of different ways. We re excited about it, the market is super excited, and the buzz is really high, said Jen-Hsun Huang, chief executive officer and president of Nvidia Corp., in an interview with LaptopMag web-site. Nvidia GeForce 9400M is a single-chip core-logic with DirectX 10-compatible ...

Nvidia CEO says Intel's Atom could hurt the hardware and software industries
TG Daily - Trendwatch News — ... entire market. What the industry needs are products that really excite consumers, so that even in these difficult times they'll come back to buy PCs. I would hope that Intel isn't doing anything to prevent consumers from getting the most innovative products, in this case, built around Atom, their own processor. I think consumers would be really disappointed if they learned that Intel is sabotaging their ability to get access to breakthrough technologies." See LaptopMag.com's full interview blog . busy

Nvidia CEO believes Intel's Atom platform will hurt PC software industry
PalmAddicts — ... One in particular is Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang, yesterday he sat down with LaptopMag for a lenghty interview. But there are interesting answers from Huang, which once again were punching at Intel. ...

Nvidia CEO: Intel Atom could hurt the hardware and software industries
Asus Eee News, Mods, and Hacks — ... in this case, built around Atom, their own processor. I think consumers would be really disappointed if they learned that Intel is sabotaging their ability to get access to breakthrough technologies." Hmmm. Those are pretty strong words. I wonder what Intel's reaction will be. Of course, we have to keep in mind where Mr. Huang is coming from, he being the CEO of Nvidia, which makes products typically found only in full-featured models. You can read the full interview here. ...

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