The platform ION 2, which NVIDIA partners will demonstrate on the future exhibition CES 2010, originally allow to play back HD video with 1080p quality, encode video and work in games. The new generation atom platform uses additional decoder for accelerating video proposes.
Intel Representatives expressed their relation to ION platform, which deserves reference. On their opinion, ION made an excess cost, which does not justify the appearance of additional functional possibilities in the case of netbook. For accelerating HD video it suffices to use a more economical hardware decoder, and in games with heavy graphic among the owners of netbook almost no one is interested . The market, in Intel opinion , already proved the that powerful graphic system in the netbook segment is not claimed.
Smartbook on base of processors with ARM- architecture, in Intel representative opinion , soon will also lose their advantage in the form of battery life in comparison with netbook. Intel actively develops economical processors with x86- compatible architecture, and they are much more universal in the utilization plan of software, then smartbook processors .