Excuse us for stepping into rumour territory, but we believe you'll find this one to be of interest.
According to Chinese newspaper DigiTimes, PC vendors have suggested that Intel and NVIDIA are hard at work in an effort to bring support for Intel's Atom processor to NVIDIA's MCP79 chipset.
It is believed that such configurations will first appear in nettop form from the likes of ASUS, GIGABYTE and MSI. Looking further on, the surprise collaboration could ultimately result in netbooks with far-greater graphics capabilities than the current crop.
NVIDIA's MCP79 chipset provides integrated graphics based on NVIDIA's GeForce 9300 or GeForce 9400 series GPUs. If it manages to shrink the technology into a form factor suitable for today's netbooks, it'd offer graphics power far beyond that available on Intel's current Atom-based chipsets.
It isn't likely to bode well for battery life, but a 10in netbook with a GeForce GPU and Intel Atom processor would be far more potent and lift some of the restrictions on today's netbook solutions.
