Nvidia ION 2 Official Specs Released

[Chris]

Nvidia has officially announced it's ION 2 specs. It will still be branded as Nvidia ION and numerous netbooks have already been announced that will run on it including the Acer Aspire One 532G (10-inch) and ASUS Eee PC 1201PN (12-inch) which are expected to be the first new ION netbooks to be introduced. In [...]

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[ThisIsNot]

I wonder what is at the core of the ION 2. The ION was essentially the Nvidia 9400M. Is the ION 2 a 100, 200, or 300 series Nvidia chip? I have a hard time seeing that it is a 300 level chip at the core as those are found in high end gaming notebooks. Maybe a 100 level chip, I don't know. I stopped paying attention to Nvidia's naming after I purchased a gaming notebook in 2005 with the GeForce Go 6800 Ultra. It seems like Nvidia keeps changing the letters before and after their numbering schemes. I can keep up with ATI but not Nvidia.

Engadget: It hasn't been a secret that Ion 2 uses NVIDIA's new Optimus GPU switching tech to automatically toggle between the Pineview chipset's integrated GMA 3150 and a discrete NVIDIA Ion GPU, but we can now confirm that both the 16-core Ion chip for desktops and eight-core unit for netbooks are based on the GeForce G210 GPU.

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