NVIDIA approach to the market NETBOOK

"The phenomenon of the market in 2008 analyzed by NVIDIA depending on the use of its chipset with integrated video in these portable devices"

NVIDIA would be watching with interest to the market solutions NETBOOK, but so far no specific strategies for entering this market by the American producer, or at least were not anticipated in public. NVIDIA currently seems to prefer an approach from the viewer, perhaps to better understand in which direction this new market will evolve.

NETBOOK the solutions are, in many ways a surprise, the real news computing the framework of 2008. This type of device was created in late 2007 with the first systems Asus Eee PC thanks to the combination of small size, simplicity of construction and low cost of purchase.

I NETBOOK are not offered as direct substitutes for notebook solutions in all areas or used, and the rest could be difficult: the small size and performance velocity limit the scope of use to access web tool when you are out, notwithstanding the need to have a web connection.

NVIDIA's interest in this area is related to the provision of solutions chipsets compatible with Intel Atom processors, which are equipped with integrated video subsystem. Asus suggests, with the model N10J, a solution NETBOOK equipped with Intel Atom chipset paired with NVIDIA GeForce 9300M GS, which is velocistiche performance with 3D applications that playing video flows well above the proposal typically combined with Intel CPU Atom.

One might ask what could be the actual value in a NETBOOK system, an integrated video subsystem capable of high-performance 3D, given that these solutions are typically combined with reduced performance processors and display up to 10 inches the diagonal is a limit in terms of productivity rather high. The notebole portability solutions NETBOOK puts limits in ease of use with multimedia applications: the NETBOOK are certainly preferable to areas of personal productivity of traditional

The same NVIDIA seems to be not even particularly convinced about its own direct involvement in the NETBOOK in spring NVIDIA announced its own platform compatible processors VIA Nano, low consumption solutions that may find their systems NETBOOK a Ideal for use. In recent months, NVIDIA and VIA have in fact ended this relationship, but had materialized into products on the market.