NVIDIA vs Intel... again

The great cage-match of our tech time continues as Nvidia releases a counter-counter-claim backing its ION technology.

In response to Intel's response to an anonymous Nvidia Powerpoint slamming Intel integrated graphics, Nvidia has now released an official Powerpoint, detailing why Intel's slurs on ION are not to be believed.

Abandoning the raw nastiness of its first, unsigned document, Nvidia takes a stab at playing it professional in its latest propaganda attempt, laying out claim to counter claim with no solitaire slides in sight.

Countering Intel's claims the Ion platform is not validated, Nvidia points out it is, in fact "OEM-validated, Microsoft-validated, NVIDIA-validated", although we fail to see how Nvidia validating its own products helps much.

Nvidia says Ion replaces an outdated three chip design with a more contemporary two chip one, taking up 55 per cent less area. Ion, argues the Goblin, also offers a "more feature rich" experience than Intel netbooks, nettops, and notebooks.

As for Intel's declaration that the "Window of opportunity for NVIDIA Ion is very short", Nvidia concludes by reasoning that the next generation Atom (Pineview) "forces customers to use Intel graphics (with minor improvements)", whilst its Second-generation ION - purportedly due out in the fourth quarter of this year - "expands CPU support, performance and features."
So there.