NVIDIA
ENERGISES 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 graphics processing unit (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
See the new ION products on display at Computex
at the NVIDIA partner booths in the Nankang
Exhibition Hall.
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
1 Based
on 3D Mark ‘06 results on Atom 230 CPU with NVIDIA ION GPU,
versus Atom 230 CPU with Intel 945 graphics.
NVIDIA
also announced today that ION has
earned the prestigious “Best Choice of Overseas
Enterprise” award from the Taipei Computer Association. ION
was selected from more than 400 products from every electronic product
category including portable devices, displays, and complete systems.
Nominated products were subjected to a rigorous examination by local
and foreign judges from the technology industry and academia who
evaluated them based on technical merit, innovation, and marketability.
