The future Nvidia Ion 2 platform for notebooks will feature more powerful graphics: the number of shaders on the new mGPU could in fact be more than doubled. The 40nm fabrication process has also been confirmed.

nVIDIA Ion, the netbook, nettop and all-in-one system platform recently released by nVIDIA was adopted by many manufacturers, that have the possibility of pairing low-consumption Intel Atom processsors with a good graphic chip, the nVIDIA GeForce 9400M, capable of offering superior performances when compared to the previous Intel solutions, and giving support for 1080p and Blu-Ray videos.

nVIDIA could be ready to launch the future Ion platform already during the fourth trimester of 2009. It doesn’t have an official name; for now, it’s known by Ion 2, and according to the first information known, Ion 2 will definitely have the 40nm process (instead of the 55nm of the current Ion), reducing consumption and the chip size.

Other rumors about the platform say that the integrated graphic chip should have more than the double number of shaders than its predecessor, greatly enhancing the performance. It’s still not known whether it will be an enhancement on the current chip or a completely new solution, however.