NVIDIA Introduces New Tegra 4i LTE Processor

NVIDIA announced two new chips. The first is NVIDIA i500 LTE, a 4G LTE communication module. The second chip is more interesting - it is a mobile processor with integrated 4G LTE support. This chip is called Tegra 4i, and it is positioned as a processor for smartphones, which is only slightly behind in terms of performance of Tegra 4 for tablets and “super smartphones”.

Tegra 4i is a quad-core ARM Cortex-A9 CPU, with a fairly low power consumption. Among other things, the chip includes 60 graphics cores, as well as built-in support for GSM, WCDMA, HSPA +, LTE and other communication standards.
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As mentioned above, the new chip is not as productive as the “full” Tegra 4. But its power consumption is lower than that of the “relative”, which may be a decisive factor for smartphone manufacturers. Tegra 4i can work with a frequency of 2.3 GHz, and supports up to 2 GB of RAM, plus work with 1080p video. By the way, both chips, and Tegra 4, and Tegra 4i, also have built-in support for HDR (high dynamic range).

NVIDIA also introduced a prototype for a smartphone with such a chip, calling it the Phoenix Reference Phone Platform. Characteristics of the device include a 5-inch 1080p display, support for LTE, and more. By the way, the declared thickness of the device is only 8 mm.