NVIDIA has been pushing its Tesla line of products, which are basically rebranded video cards, very hard in the professional market as a GPGPU. Many processes that used to run on CPUs in the world of computing are able to run much faster using the highly multiple core Tesla GPGPU.
It was only a couple days ago that we outed the upcoming releases from ASUS, which included the Eee Box, where we informed you that the upcoming tech would come stock with a NVIDIA ION GPU. And now, according to an official Eee PC website, that seems to be the exact case. There are some other things that match up really well with that original post, so keep reading to see what this little box has in store for you.
Samsung may be delaying their N510 Ion-based netbook in the US, but someone in Germany obviously didn’t get the same memo. NetbookNews has not only unboxed the 11.6-inch notebook but thrown up some comparison shots between it and the smaller Samsung NC10. There’s also some demo footage showing HD video performance of both systems side-by-side, in case you’re really wondering what difference the GeForce GPU makes.
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Here we go again with another week in review for your perusal. A mystery Android-powered MID tipped up this week looking very much like those renderings of the Apple tablet to my eyes. It’s cool to see android showing up on so many devices. Logitech unveiled an update to the coolest racing wheel ever, the G25, called simply enough the G27. The new wheel promises more accurate force feedback effects and keeps with the slick clutch and gated shifter we loved from the G25.
Hot on the heels of word that Lenovo’s IdeaPad S12 NVIDIA Ion netbook will be delayed until the launch of Windows 7 in late October, comes the news from Samsung that they’re planning the same tactics for their own Ion ultraportable, the N510. The 11.6-inch notebook – which last we heard was set to arrive in the US come September – pairs Intel’s 1.6GHz Atom N270 processor with 1GB of RAM and the GeForce 9400M GPU.
ASUS’ long-awaited Eee Keyboard could land as early as October, according to DigiTimes’ “industry sources”, with pricing set to hover in the $400-500 category. It will follow on from a refresh of several of ASUS’ Eee-breakaway lines, including a new Eee Top all-in-one and an Eee Box nettop, both of which will use NVIDIA’s Ion GeForce 9300M GPU.
It takes something special to get us excited about the netbook segment these days, and Lenovo’s IdeaPad S12 with its added injection of NVIDIA Ion GPU prowess was set to be enough to do just that. However, if laptop-loving new Gizmodo acquisition Joanna Stern is correct, we won’t be seeing the Ion version of the S12 until sometime after Windows 7 launches.
The ASUS EeeTop ET2002T first shown back in June at Computex has apparently made its official debut in France, with Blogeee spotting the full spec-list and some press shots. As expected, the ET2002T brings with it a 20-inch 1,600 x 900 touchscreen display along with a DVD burner and – most interestingly – NVIDIA’s Ion GPU.
One of the watermarks for the notebook industry is how many GPUs are sold in a given quarter. All notebooks sold today sport either integrated GPUs or discrete GPUs to handle graphics, gaming, and movie playback. Typically, the discrete GPU market in notebooks is mostly in NVIDIA’s court, AMD has changed that.
Sure, it’s common knowledge that the Zune HD will be powered by a ridiculously powerful NVIDIA Tegra processor, and that’s one of the many reasons the Zune HD is so anticipated at this point. But up until recently, NVIDIA has been pretty quiet about their powerhouse of a processor, for whatever reason. It wasn’t until the Zune HD went up for pre-order, that NVIDIA’s website began to reflect the upcoming release, and with it, they got down to the nitty-gritty, detailing exactly what we should expect with the Zune HD’s September 15th launch.
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