News - Intel asking NVIDIA to add a little extra spice to Atom-based systems?

[HEXUS]

According to reports, Intel is working with NVIDIA to add Atom support to the green-team's MCP79 chipset. Fancy gaming on your netbook?

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[Biscuit]

can you run cuda from these IGPs? If so then i will have a huge smile on my face when im at the store buying one

[this_is_gav]

Hmm... if this makes it onto the desktop it could become a proper little HTPC. Hopefully it would be more efficient than Intel's 945GC.

Then again, there's the Athlon 64 2000+ which might hold that role already.

[MadduckUK]

asus N10 mk2?

[kalniel]

How much can this chipset deal with - would they still need the intel 945 inefficient brute? Atom+IGP+low power chipset = win.

[Pob255]

now if intell will release the dual core atom for netbooks we'll really be on to a winner

Although I dread to think what that'd do to the price

[MadduckUK]

How much can this chipset deal with - would they still need the intel 945 inefficient brute? Atom+IGP+low power chipset = win.

thats the sticker, if the 945 is still in there then its just another asus N10, if this is a full nvidia chipset then it has potential to become the "must have" for people looking for netbooks.

lets see them do it on a mini-itx while there at it