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Intel suffering from "Not Invented Here Syndrome"

I thought it was a stroke of genius when after Intel released the Atom processor, Nvidia released their Ion graphics chipset for the Atom. Take a low-power cpu that is just about capable for everyday computing and extend this into a genuinely useful platform by adding a little graphical grunt. Both companies do well as a result. Not competition, symbiosis.

But that's not good enough for Intel, so come the next iteration of their product, they shut out third parties like nvidia by putting their own graphics and chipset on the same die as the cpu. The result, a more sterile ecosystem that won't result in innovative products people actually want.

Intel need to realise that they are bad at graphics (to put it mildly) and that leaving the door open for third parties, who have the graphical know-how, to build upon their platforms is good business sense. Add to this the squeezing of AMD out of the market by under-hand tactics, Intel are behaving like the Microsoft of yesteryear, when MS were at their most predatory.

By iclbmc1 on 28 Jan 2010

Let nVidia in.

Spot on iclbmc1. Intel need to stop the 'we must do everything' view and let Atom based systems really fly with some proper graphics from nVidia.

Until these netbooks can handle HD content properly, I'm just not interested.

By Grunthos on 29 Jan 2010

Small CPU + HD Graphics please!

Agreed, the CPU is fine, just needs a decent HD chip to drive video, and Intel can't do that!

By Wilbert3 on 30 Jan 2010