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Sorry but from what I read elsewhere (Pharonics?) they are indeed talking to Via. Gaaah!
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Nvidia has been trying to go with VIA for quite awhile. AFAIK nvidia doesn't need Intel's support to continue the ion platform. I suspect Intel wants nothing to do with it because 3 steps down the Atom roadmap is an integrated GPU.
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Well actually they do sort of need Intel's support. It seems that they will not "certify" this chipset for use with the Atom and on top of that only sell Atom CPUs bundled with this crappy chipset of their's. So, in order to get this better chipset a manufacturer would have to be willing to sell a system that Intel won't certify and throw away the unused chipsets that show up with it in order to use NVIDIA. Yes, that sux!
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Nice, I just wish that the Intel exec in question could have at least been named! <cough> I guess we'll see what happens and if the price of the standalone chip vs chip\chipset is competitive or not. I'd like a netbook setup like this and maybe in the future a low powered STB using this config. We'll need VDPAU in ffmpeg first though <sigh>
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OK at the risk of resurrecting a zombie thread, I'm surprised there were no further updates. To those who are subscribed to this thread, has there been a good pre-built box built yet? I'm running an ATV2 and finding that it is running out of "juice" and choking on thumbnails, running out of memory, and requiring frequent relaunches. (all my content is coming from a Synology NAS hardwired on the network).
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Well 5-6 years ago I built my HTPC from several parts, cost me like 400$. It still performs great today, even works with my Logitech Harmony. But even if there is no pre-build box available, nowadays you can simply buy a Raspberry Pi and I guess FLIRC or how this infrared receiver for USB is called and boom you got yourself something which is suposed to decode 1080p (I honestly still can't believe it, might have to order a Pi to test it out).
Other then that, all pre-build HTPCs are quite expensive, lack infrared most of the time, got noisy fans or some other reason I dislike them. Haven't found anything else yet that looks nice out-of-the-box.
