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Eto kako su jednostavno izbacili Nvidiu iz jednadžbe - dodaš grafiku u procesor i bye, bye... Šteta, Ion platforma nije niti zaživjela (pitam se zašto), a već ovo.

Evo zasto ION nije zaziveo: Problem je cijena, nista drugo. Intel prodaje jeftinije CPU+Chipset nego samo CPU.

http://blog.laptopmag.com/nvidia-calls-intel-atom-pricing-unfair-reveals-price-deltas

Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang accused Intel of unfair business practices, because the chipmaker’s policy of charging lower prices for its Atom CPU + Chipset than for the Atom CPU alone, puts the graphics vendor and its ION chipset at a disadvantage.

“That seems pretty unfair,” Huang told Reuters. “We ought to be able to compete and serve that market.”

These allegations against Intel are nothing new. We’d been hearing off-the-record from vendors for several months that it was cost prohibitive to buy the Atom CPU by itself and labor-intensive to remove the CPU when it’s bundled with the chipset.  But last week, in a conference call last week, Intel CEO Paul Otellini confirmed the rumors, telling our own Mark Spoonauer that “we have historically offered better pricing to people who buy more product.”

What we didn’t know, until now, is how much Intel really charges for an Atom CPU by itself and with its chipset. In his interview with Reuters, Huang stated that Intel charges $25 for the CPU and chipset together, but $45 for the CPU by itself. Add the cost of ION, which we do not know, to the $20 premium for the bare CPU and you have a much more expensive netbook or a much lower profit margin for vendors.