Nvidia presents Tegra

Nvidia announced its serious and solid intentions to enter the market of mobile chips, where Intel has been dominating for a long time. The company's wishes are serious enough, and judging by their statements, the company apparently makes serious bets on this market.

The new technology is called Tegra, and creating a serious partnership foundation, the company plans to start producing models of chips and devices on these chips by the end of this year, and the next ones in the first half of the next.


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Let's see what Nvidia presents to us.

• This chip will include everything: 800MHz ARM processor, GeForce graphics processor, image processor, high-definition video processor, and other components responsible for working with communication devices, USB ports, memory, and everything else.
• Initially, Nvidia plans to launch two chip models, the Tegra 600 and the Tegra 650, which can allow you to play Quake 3 with a full set of filters and 40 fps. And also with support for HD 1080p, WSXGA + LCD or CRT, and TV-out formats NTSC and PAL
• The company initially does not plan to support such mobile operating systems as Android or Symbian, and initially plans to support Windows CE and Windows Mobile.
• The claimed chip sizes are about 1/10 of the size of an Intel's Atom processor, and it has a very low power consumption, while allowing you to listen to music for about 130 hours and watch videos in HD quality for about 30 hours without recharging
• The first devices with Tegra on board will be communicators or ultraportable laptops, with screen sizes from 4 "to 12", QWERTY keyboard or touch screen, Wi-Fi and possibly 3G
• It is assumed that the price of devices on this chip will be from $ 199 to $ 249

UPDATE: Apparently about energy consumption, we are talking about the device on this chip - Nvidia APX 2500, and below is a video of this device in action.



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