NVIDIA is trying to get netbook markers to adapt its new Ion platform in favor of Intel’s home made chipset, but it is a pretty long process that is yet to result in any actual consumer products. NVIDIA is decided to remove Intel from the throne and the graphics card makers’ latest project has been to literally replace Intel’s platform. NVIDIA recently showed a special version of HP’s Mini 1000 netbook that beyond its exterior has little in common with the models found in stores.
NVIDIA has namely ripped out the hardware and replaced Intel’s Atom platform with its own ultramobile Tegra MID platform. This is a first attempt from NVIDIA to show its coming Tegra units where it has spoken of MIDs with 1080p playback for less than $100.
NVIDIA’s modded HP netbook is hardly a product for the market, but it still showed the possibilities of the ARM-based platform. Over at engadget they have published a picture of HP Mini 1000 that with the Tegra platform powers the mobile operating system Windows CE.
They also show the circuit board of the Tegra platform, which is about the size of a regular laptop RAM module, which in turn shows how small the devices powered by NVIDIA Tegra could be.
Tegra fits with ease inside any netbook
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