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    Nvidia Ion-Powered Cheap PCs Arrive En Masse

    Lenovo and Acer were the first, but now they're not the only ones with cheap computers powered by Nvidia's Ion platform—GeForce 9400M graphics paired with an Intel Atom CPU. Besides Asus's eeetop here, there's 20 others, though you won't find the likes of Dell or HP here:

    NVIDIA ENERGIZES COMPUTEX WITH NEW ION-BASED PC PRODUCTS

    Highly Anticipated Platform Takes Off With 21 New Products for Small PCs

    COMPUTEX, TAIPEI, TAIWAN-JUNE 2, 2009-NVIDIA, the world leader in visual
    computing technologies and the inventor of the GPU, announced broad adoption of its award-
    winning NVIDIA® ION™ graphics processor at the Computex tradeshow today. The new
    products – introduced at an NVIDIA press conference in Taipei and on display at the show –
    include small desktop PCs, thin and light notebooks, all-in-one PCs, and low power motherboard
    solutions which all deliver a full PC experience in a small, low-power system.

    The new products include:
    Acer Desktop AspireRevo
    AsRock Desktop ION 330
    ASUS Motherboard C2N7A-I
    ASUS All-in-one eeeTop ET2002
    Colorful Desktop iHTPC
    ECS Desktop 7AT-3L
    ECS All-in-one Morph-I
    Flextronics All-in-one Cobra-2
    Flextronics Desktop Dove-2
    Funtwist Desktop FION 330
    ICD All-in-one Kitchen PC
    Lenovo Notebook IdeaPad S12
    MSI Desktop Windbox D200
    MSI All-in-one Windtop AE2201
    Pegatron Desktop IPP7A-CP
    Pegatron All-in-one IPP7A-DF2
    Pegatron Motherboard IPX7A-ION
    TCL All-in-one Ruiyi 1010
    Telcast Notebook TL-1000N
    Weibu Notebook N10A
    Zotac Motherboard ION-ITX

    The new NVIDIA ION-based PCs and platform solutions are great for high definition video,
    mainstream gaming, and GPU-accelerated video and photo editing applications that take
    advantage of NVIDIA CUDA™ technology.

    ION also supports DirectX Compute as part of Microsoft's upcoming Windows 7 operating
    system. DirectX Compute running on NVIDIA's CUDA compute hardware architecture delivers
    a major boost for small form factor PCs because it accelerates applications like video editing that
    run poorly or not at all on today's low-powered PCs. Other GPU-accelerated applications like
    vReveal and Badaboom let users quickly edit video and convert it for use on a portable media
    player like an iPod.

    "NVIDIA is really shaking up the small form factor space with ION graphics," said Rob Enderle,
    Principal Analyst for the Enderle Group. "Netbooks and nettops are the hottest selling items in
    the PC space right now, but most are severely limited. ION removes the major chunk of that
    performance limitation allowing PC vendors the perfect blend of design, performance, and value
    that drives sales in hard times."

    "Consumer interest in the Acer AspireRevo featuring NVIDIA's ION graphics has been
    overwhelming," said Gianpero Morbello, senior vice president of corporate marketing for Acer.
    "The Acer AspireRevo clearly demonstrates the power of ION to deliver a full and unique
    multimedia experience for an amazingly low price. We see strong consumer demand in this
    space."

    NVIDIA ION graphics processors deliver big performance from small PCs with up to 10X faster
    graphics than similar systems1. ION graphics support:

    • Windows 7 and Windows Vista Home Premium
    • Low-power CPUs including Intel Atom, Intel Celeron, and Via Nano processors
    • Outstanding 1080p HD video with true-fidelity 7.1 audio
    • Popular games including The Sims 3, Lego Batman, World of WarCraft, and
    Battlefield Heroes
    • DirectX 10 graphics with advanced digital display connectivity
    • Accelerated video enhancement and transcoding using NVIDIA® CUDA™ and
    DirectX Compute technology


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