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  Consumers wanting to take advantage of Nvidia’s ION 2 platform without spending much can take a look at the new Lenovo C200 all-in-one PC. The 18.5-inch touchscreen AIO has got official in USA and it gives the ION 2 advantage at an affordable $499 price tag. There’s Intel dual-core Atom CPU onboard, a GeForce [...]

  Nvidia has officially acknowledged the next-generation ION graphics, infamously known as ION 2 at the CeBIT expo. It’s a discrete GPU that attaches via a PCI Express slot and supports Intel’s latest Pine Trail CPUs. Nvidia touts the next-gen ION is able to crank out graphics 10 times faster and has a huge 10 [...]

  The last we heard about Ion 2 was Acer cornering number of chips from Nvidia and was ready to be launched at CES. However, Fudzilla has now heard directly from the chipmaker that they won’t officially launch the chipset at the CES but only showcase. Nvidia’s senior manager confirmed the launch will be in [...]

  Nvidia is yet to detail its Ion 2 platform but the Taiwanese rumormonger is claiming they’ve already landed orders from Acer. Ion 2 supports Intel’s Atom N450, N470, D510 or D410 CPUs and seemingly Acer wants to gain on this by integrating the Ion solution to make the netbooks (or nettops) more powerful. Intel’s [...]

  We are yet to see a decent number of Ion-based computing devices but Nvidia is already preparing to launch the second generation of Ion by the end of this year. Fudzilla, who claims to have got the scoop, says that the next Ion generation will be faster as well as powerful than the current [...]

  Nvidia’s relationship with Intel relationship is on the verge of a breakup, but before the GPU maker starts searching for love, they have found it already – in VIA. Jen-Hsun Huang, CEO of Nvidia has confirmed that Nvidia is on the way to produce ION 2 platform that will support Via Technologies’ Nano processor. [...]