NVIDIA + VIA = Low Cost Multimedia PC
A Via CPU, paired with an NVIDIA GPU could be the platform for cheap multimedia computers. The view is simple: with multimedia applications like a Media Center PC, most of the workload is “fixed”. SDTV resolution is fixed, 1080p resolution is “fixed”, Blu-Ray’s decoding workload is “fixed” and so on…
It means that you can tailor a system that is powerfull decent to address these needs, at the lowest possible cost (a $45 design). That’s what NVIDIA is aiming for, and they have a big advantage by the competition: they can produce cheap graphics that actually perform (graphics is the hard part of multimedia). Here, Intel’s huge lead in
The flipside of handling “fixed” operate for NVIDIA is that Intel will eventually catch-up to these basic graphics functions, and whether they want that market badly abundant, they can either try to lower the prices my squeezing their own margins, or use a better manufacturing process to reduce their costs.
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