Asustek Lamborghini Eee PC VX6, Acer Ferrari Within Months?

Digitimes has word of a couple of high-end or “luxurious” netbooks from Asustek and Acer that might be launching sometime in the fourth quarter. One of details mentioned about the Asustek netbook is a dual-core Intel Atom. That could be the Atom N550 that Intel … Read more

AMD Fusion to be Demonstrated Next Month?

Fudzilla is reporting that AMD will be demonstrating It’s AMD Fusion technology early next month, at the IFA consumer electronics tradeshow in Berlin. IFA Berlin 2010 will take place from September 3rd – September 8th. Fusion is a response to Intel’s work to integrate CPUs … Read more

Acer Ferrari 1200 Announced

It looks like Acer will soon be launching a sequel to the 12.1″ high-end Acer Ferrari 1100. Like the 1100, the new Acer Ferrari 1200 is also AMD-powered, running on a dual-core AMD Turion X2 Ultra on AMD’s M780G platform. The Ferrari 1200 definitely falls … Read more

NVIDIA CEO Interview – Ion, Netbooks, etc. (LAPTOP Mag)

NVIDIA Yesterday we mentioned that NVIDIA is telling people to speak up if they want to see companies selling products with NVIDIA’s new Ion platform. LAPTOP Magazine has conducted an extensive review with Jen-Hsun Huang, the co-founder, president, and CEO of NVIDIA, and he talked about the ION platform as well as netbooks and the impact on various industries (including the software industry).

No word on when Ion will hit the market, but a very nice bit of information to come out of this is that he believes the target price for an Ion-based device is $399. Good news for those of us interested in the Ion platform – this could very well be the biggest thing since the Intel Atom came out, since it’s adding a GeForce 9400M to the mix. The 9400M would be a huge increase in the graphics power of netbooks and would open up a lot of applications.

I believe the most interesting things that Huang discussed were not about NVIDIA’s plans, but about the competition, VIA, and netbooks in general.

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Intel to Push CULV Platform – 2Q 2009

DigiTimes is reporting on a new platform that Intel is developing, to be rolled out sometime in the second quarter of 2009. Their sources believe that it’s targeted at AMD’s Yukon platform. This Consumer Ultra Low Voltage (CULV) platform is a good indicator of Intel’s … Read more