NVIDIA and general chip manufacturer VIA have halted their plans to develop a netbook platform, say company sources. Both companies had signed the deal back in April which could have seen the NIVDIA GeForce 9400M coupled with VIA’s C7 and Nano CPU.

The NIVDIA GeForce 9400M made its debut in Apple new MacBooks and is expected to become established in the notebook industry, and thus replacing the graphics accelerarot built by Intel such as the Intel Atom processor.

As yet it is unknown as to why NVIDIA and VIA have halted their netbook efforts, so does this now mean Intel will have an open field with the Intel Atom processor and if so is this then the future of netbooks?

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