The market of netbook is very young as it was established in late 2007 and now after one year we are going to see the new generation of Netbooks to come out with better forthcoming GPU with DirectX 10.0 (or beyond) support and CPU in 2009 to blur the lines between themselves and the standard full-featured laptops.
We have just heard about the Nividia’s diligence of making a new Ion platform for netbooks or mini laptops to utilize the much better GeForce M9400 graphics along Atom CPU. I am happy that Nvidia is not the only company that is trying for the improvement of netbooks. Although VIA is collaborating Nvidia for new platform, it has just announced its upcoming platform codenamed “VIA Trinity” to bring better 3D support and performance for mini laptops or netbooks.
“VIA Trinity platform couples a power efficient VIA processor like the VIA Nano processor with one of VIA's highly integrated unified digital media chipsets, and adds the power of an onboard S3 Graphics PCI Express discrete GPU … to provide all the Hi-Def performance and latest x86 technology support in three chips that other vendors require in four, yet uses less power, granting system and board builders an immediate head-start in the SFF market.”
“The VIA Nano processor provides scalable, power efficient performance for a truly optimized computing experience with no compromises. This is coupled with one of the VIA system media processors, all-in-one, highly integrated digital media IGP chipsets featuring the 800MHz VIA V4 front side bus.
The S3 Graphics Chrome onboard graphics accelerator supports the latest DirectX 10.1 and OpenGL graphics architectures, HDMI output and playback of the latest Hi-Def content with the Chromotion™ HD 2.0 video engine. Delivering the full add-in card graphics experience in an extremely low-power onboard package, Chrome brings hardware acceleration for all leading video standards including H.264, MPEG-4, VC-1, WMV-HD and AVS for a stunning visual experience, yet remains within the strictest of thermal envelopes.”
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