NVIDIA Company charged Intel with the artificial overstating of atom processor prices for the producers, who desire to use NVIDIA chipset. This hold the increase in the popularity of ION platform first generation.
One of the strong ION 2 sides is considered the ability to accelerate at the hardware level HD video decoding up to 1080p. The built-in graphic system of atom processors last generation support only 720p video decoding . For video systems on base of pineview processors a separate decoder is proposed from broadcom .
Associate reported yesterday that nettop ZOTAC on ION 2 platform in base configuration will cost $249. The announcement of this product is planned on March present year. A similar price policy allows to hope that ION 2 has chances to an improvement in the market positions NVIDIA in the fight with Intel.