The ION LE chipset was released by NVIDIA a little while ago, and it was virtually the same as the original ION, except for its lack of DirectX 10 support. The marketing strategy was to make the chip cheaper, while at the same time limiting it to only Windows XP systems. Recently, the user runawayprisoner [...]

Nvidia added a second product to its ION line – ION LE – a chipset with support for DirectX9, dedicated to Win XP platforms.
In an interview done to Fudzilla, Igor Stanek – Product PR Manager EMEA ION/Notebook – says: “ION LE is SKU of the ION GPU that is identical to ION, except it only supports DX9. This product  is designed [...]

NVIDIA released new WHQL-Certified drivers for many of its products, but the one I am obviously most excited about is the ION WHQL-Certification. According to the release notes the driver supports all of the new Windows 7 GPU-accelerated DirectX APIs: DirectX Compute, Direct2D, DirectWrite, and DXVA-HD. Here is a more detailed rundown of [...]