Nvidia is going to tweak its GeForce 9400M chipset to work with Intel’s Atom processor. The Nvidia chipset already works with Intel’s Core 2 Duo mobile and Core 2 Extreme CPUs, and now Nvidia has signed a deal with Intel to add cheap and low power Atom support to powerful graphics chipset. The newest Nvidia chipset can be found on new Apple notebooks, and soon on many modern laptops.

The Intel deal comes after alleged Via and Nvidia project for developing cheap but powerful netbook platform based on GeForce 9400M chipset and new advance VIA Nano processor technology.

Intel Atom now use Intel D945GC chipset with GMA950 graphics that are a serious restriction for many tasks. With the new GeForce 9400M chipset it would boost performance across the board, the system will use less power so the battery autonomy will last longer and the cheap netbook (Asus Eee, Acer One, Dell Mini and others) or desktop (Asus Eee Box, Shuttle X27D, or maybe the feature Atom based Dell Studio Hybrid) can be used as Media Center for watching Full HD movies across HDMI, playing games or using other graphically hungry applications.

Interesting idea, having cheap, silent, efficient and powerful netbook as media center on the GO and beautiful, small, eye-candy designed home desktop for most of the regular user needs.. In other words its time to say good bye to big and bulky desktop computers.

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