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Written by Fuad Abazovic
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Monday, 08 February 2010 19:37 |
 
Power saving technology
Nvidia will soon launch its Optimus (non-Prime. sub.ed.) technology and we've learned that Intel really likes what Nvidia did
this time. The technology is basically Hybrid SLI done right, but it works
really well this time around.
Nvidia will soon launch it, but the key
point is that Optimus needs Intel’s IGP and lives in symbiosis with the GPU. Once
Nvidia launches this technology, it won’t go against Intel’s IGP and will stop
preaching that Intel’s HD IGP is bad.
Since many Arrandale equipped notebooks are
on the way, and Arrandale has an IGP inside the CPU socket, this was a logical
decision for them to make. Jensen is a feisty player but he also knows when it is
good to stop and simply make money.
Intel’s advantage will be that Optimus only
works with Intel IGPs and that Intel can defeat AMD even in GPU power, of
course with the help of Nvidia GPUs and Optimus.
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