Zotac's Ion-Based Mini-ITX Board For Atom Debuts

Posted by timothy on Tuesday May 12, 2009 @02:54AM from the underseat-entertainment-box-for-the-subaru dept.

MojoKid writes "There have been a handful of NVIDIA Ion-based products with Intel's Atom processor that have been unveiled recently, ranging from NVIDIA's own reference system, to the Acer Aspire Revo SFF PC. Today Zotac announced an Ion motherboard that will be appealing to the DIY crowd. The design of this IONITX-A model board tested and reviewed here in particular, offers some very interesting features, not the least of which is its DC power input with an external power brick. It also is built on Intel's dual core Atom process for a bit more horsepower to back up NVIDIA's Ion integrated graphics chip."

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Re:In a word: awesome! by mr_mischief · 2009-05-12 07:35 · Score: 0, Flamebait

What your post and the parent to your post both point out is further evidence of unfair anti-competitive practices by a dominant player in the industry. The chip is an x86 compatible chip, and NVidia has paid money to Intel for the rights to build chipsets for x86-compatible CPUs. To refuse to sell the chips just because it opens Intel to competition from NVidia will likely not go so well with the antitrust regulators or the judges in the antitrust suit brought by AMD.