NVidia’s been complaining all week about Intel’s chips giving them an unfair advantage in the netbook space due to pricing, and from recent information about Intel’s new “Pine Trail” platform, you can see why.  The new chipset combines a memory controller and graphics core onto the existing CPU silicon, forgoing the need for a separate chip (currently from Via or NVidia).

Of course the integration of a graphics component onto Atom chips is not something that will make Nvidia too happy, but according to Intel, Pine Trail can still be integrated with the firm’s Ion graphics for netbooks. This will come at a considerably higher cost, though, which will likely intensify complaints about Intel’s allegedly unfair pricing schemes – $45 for the processor alone but just $25 for the entire three-chip Atom platform.

via Intel talks about new Pine Trail mobile platform – TechSpot News.