Intel: Ion Is Overkill, Don't You Know
There’s been a lot of talk about Nvidia’s Ion this week and apparently, Intel doesn’t like when the competition gets a couple of days of good press.
Speaking to the Inquirer, Mooly Eden, Vice President and General Manager of Intel’s mobile platforms group, has spoke to the Inquirer in Taipei this week and when asked about Nvidia’s answer to it’s Atom processor, Eden dubbed the Ion platform for netbooks is "overkill" and unnecessary.
According to the INQ, during a recent Questions and Answers session, Eden said he believed in balancing CPU and GPU performance, but claimed Intel's upcoming Pinetrail platform with the next gen Atom will have a stronger graphics core, rendering Nvidia’s Ion pointless and expensive. Harsh words. In the same Q&A, Eden also said that despite being a “great solution” with “brilliant engineers” Atom would be three times better than any current ARM architecture.
There are 20 manufacturers displaying Ion-based products at Computex this year. This includes offerings from Acer, Asus, ECS, Zotac and MSI.
** and it won't be overkill because it has the Intel logo....
Whatever.
They say it's overkill today, but 6 months from now when they release their own upgrade with an even faster GPU, it won't be overkill? And am I reading that right, is Intel saying Pineview will be more powerful than Ion? Is there any evidence to support this claim?
What a jackass.
sadly ATM i dont thing they care
** and it won't be overkill because it has the Intel logo....
Whatever.
If intel produced a more powerful mobile processor (the SU2700 has potential), the Ion platform would be quite a bit more worthwhile.
Sorry, Computex coverage turning my brain to goo. Fixing it now.
We don't give a f*ck! We need a good performance/power ratio. Plus, the Ion Platform uses a bit less power, thus helping netbooks with longer battery life. So what if it's an overkill? We don't have to upgrade as often. I'm sorry Intel, but I think the 945GSE and 945GC is simply couldn't catch up with Nvidia's "less power, more performance" Ion chipset.
Go ahead, if you wanna give me thumbs up or down, I don't care, this is my point of view.
They are saying the Ion with the current Atom is overkill, since the processor can be a bottleneck. They will be increasing the processor speed as well as the video core with Pinetrail, which is why he points to balance.
I'm not saying I agree with them about Ion, although I won't buy Nvidia stuff. If I did though, and had to buy an Atom based solution for whatever reason, I certainly would not consider the performance or low energy use "overkill" by any means. Intel has a crappy chipset for the processors, and Nvidia took advantage of the opening. They needed something better, and still do. This nonsense only makes them look small.