slashgear.com - 7/1/2009
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Notebooks using NVIDIA’s Ion graphics chipset may still be in short-supply, but that hasn’t stopped the company from developing its replacement . Ion 2 is, according to Fudzilla, expected to launch toward the end of 2009, with a shrunken die, far faster graphics and many more ...
engadget.com - 7/2/2009
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NVIDIA obviously isn't doing much talking about it
itself just yet, but Fudzilla apparently has it on...
good authority that the company is indeed already hard at work on Ion 2, which promises to bring with it plenty of improvements over the already ...
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NVIDIA said to be prepping Ion 2 for late 2009
engadget.com - 6/30/2009
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According to a mag called Netbook Italia (which
might have something to do with computers) Samsung is...
developing a new NVIDIA Ion -powered netbook platform, with the first such device making the scene in Europe as early as July. The N510 boasts a ...
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Samsung to introduce NVIDIA Ion-powered netbook
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Nvidia gearing up for a Q4-end release for Ion 2?
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... faster as well as powerful than the current Ion chip. The Ion 2 will be based on a smaller die and pack more than double the shaders what is present currently in Ion.
The current Ion chip boasts 16 shaders, which effectively means that the Ion 2 will have a minimum of 32 shaders. The Ion-based computers available in the market now can pull off 1080p content but with double the shaders on the next gen rumored Ion chip, expect it to do it with ease.
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NVIDIA said to be prepping Ion 2 for late 2009
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... to bring with it plenty of improvements over the already impressive Ion chipset. Chief among those is a decreased die size, "much faster graphics," and more than twice the shaders of the original Geforce 9400M /MCP79 chipset that the current Ion is based on (which uses 16 shaders). Not many more details than that, unfortunately, but NVIDIA is supposedly looking to launch Ion 2 by the end of this year -- although not before it sells plenty more Ion 1s, of course. [Via SlashGear] Filed under: Desktops, Laptops NVIDIA said to be prepping Ion ...
NVIDIA releasing Ion 2 at end of 2009
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... leaked, whether they are correct or not is yet to be seen.
The Ion 2 is said have almost twice the processing performance of the original Ion, with this improvement graphics should be cleared and faster. The Ion 2 is currently in its early stages of development so these are not hard figures at present, either way it is a good thing for the notebook industry.
As more becomes clear on the Ion 2 we will keep you posted, be sure to check out Engadget and SlashGear for more information.
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