Standalone Notebook GPUs Are Coming Back As ATI and Nvidia Record Design Wins.

Sales of standalone graphics processing units (GPUs) for mobile computers have been decreasing for many years now, but it looks like the recent design wins from ATI, graphics business unit of Advanced Micro Devices, and Nvidia Corp. show that the trend may be over.
According to ATI, among 135 design wins for the Vision 2010 platform, half of the systems can feature discrete ATI GPUs and there are at least twenty of them that do sport standalone graphics processors. Nvidia claims that it has around 50 design wins with its Optimus technology, which dynamically enables and disables modern GeForce M-series graphics chip, which means that this year there will be over one hundred of notebook designs that can sport discrete GPUs.

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