Nvidia Watches the NetBook Market, No Jump in Yet

Nvidia has again mentioned its main plan about Netbooks or mini laptops. Although, this market is expanding quickly and has been a good place for chipmakers to earn profit through the economic recession, it doesn’t mean it can be a good field for graphics card companies to involve with. Mini-laptops needed a low consumption CPU that Intel and some other chip makers filled this hole, but they don’t need a discrete or professional graphics card. The job of netbooks is doing light computing and surfing web. For this application, no computer needs a particular graphics card, The Intel’s integrated graphics card has responded well, so far.

Despite these reasons, Nvidia has restated again that it was watching the market of netbook laptops. Thus, if they see a hole in it or if they feel that releasing another integrated graphics card with better performance than the current one will be profitable surely, they will try their best to respond to this need; Like the “Tegra system-on-chip for smartphones”.

Yahoo reported:

The company's most likely move in the netbook arena would be to provide integrated chipsets with better graphics than most netbooks offer now. The graphics giant already provides integrated chipsets for laptops and next year will ship the Tegra system-on-chip for smartphones. Tegra puts an Arm processor core, a GeForce graphics core and other components, including a high-definition video decoder, onto a single chip.

Nvidia is waiting that the market of Netbooks becomes more matured. Interesting thing is that AMD one of the leading chip makers and Apple Inc. have the same idea about this market. The economic recession has pushed Apple to start trying to make a $600 Netbook. So, It is not impossible soon we hear news that Nvidia is going to make a new integrated chip for Netbooks something similar Tegra that it is already doing for smartphones.