A while ago NVIDIA indicated that it was keeping an eye on the netbook market which through Intel’s Atom platform has continued to grow at an unexpected rate. They pointed out at the chipset used by Intel was sub-par and left doors wide open for others to step up. It seems NVIDIA has already decided to take things into their own hands as VR-Zone claims it is working on a special Atom version of the MCP7A chipset, and that is developing the MCP79 chipset for Atom that with the Pico-ITX format will be targeting the Nettop platform.
MCP7A is the chipset NVIDIA managed to win over Apple with. In its “Atom suit” it will bring a GeForce 9300/9400 graphics circuit, DDR2-800 support, HD audio, PCIe x1, PCI, Gigabit LAN and IEEE 1349. But the most astonishing is perhaps that the chipset supports the multi-GPU technology SLI with two PCIe x8 channels.
MCP79 will in turn focus on SO-DIMM DDR3 memory, HDMI output, SATA and much more. So far NVIDIA hasn’t revealed any direct plans to attack the netbook market but mainly the stationary equivalent, Nettops, but never say never.
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