NVidia Doing Well By Branching Out

NVidia has announced strong figures for the third quarter, thanks largely to runaway sales of Tegra Chips for mobile devices. The first Midgard design, the T604, was announced last year, and is currently licensed by Samsung and LG. NVidia Consumer Products Group, encompassing Tegra processors, saw  14% rise to $191 million in Q3. NVidia has [...]

Leaked! Tegra 2 3D in spring 2011

Time sure flies in the tech world. We have yet to enjoy the Tegra 2 chips and NVIDIA is already preparing for something new, a Tegra 2.5 update. This new chip is a dual core chip with 1.2GHz and is marketed to be capable of handling 3D on mobile. This was leaked as the T25 [...]

New chipset on HTC, Motorola and Asus

Tegra 2 chip is a dual core processor made by NVIDIA. This chip would enable tablets to playback HD video, handling 3D video acceleration. We could say that this is big news for NVIDIA as they hadn’t been able to land a contract with any big size company thus far. DigiTimes also reports that Asus [...]

Asus EEE PAD Tablet with Tegra chip

Asus is rumored to be working on an a tablet like devices running on the mighty Tegra chip. This rumored tablet will have a touchscreen having display size ranging between 4-7 inches.

A lot of companies have been churning out devices based on the Tegra platform – Notion Ink and ICD Tablet being the first MIDs to use it.

The Tegra chip has the capability to run 720p and even 1080p videos without any problem, something which even the latest netbooks have trouble running.

Expected time of launch: March 2010

NVidia to declare Tegra 2 at CES 2010

Nvidia is planning to release Tegra 2 next year at CES 2010. The Tegra 2 will be twice as more powerful than the current Tegra-1 chip. It will use faster memory and even more faster graphic chipset.

Also, Nvidia has decided touse 40nm technology for Tegra 2.

Currently, the most popular device that uses Tegra chip is the Microsoft Zune and we must compliment Nvidia for the great job they have done with Tegra CPU. The Zune offers stunning performance, whether you talk about its graphics or raw CPU performance. We are hoping to see Tegra 2 implemented in upcoming smartbooks in a big way

“At CES we are going to make a major announcement about Tegra family. It is highly possible that we will see some very interesting form-factors coming out at the same time… You are going to see roll-outs and deployments of tablet PCs, smartbooks, netbooks, MIDs throughout the first half and then you will see major roll-outs of smartphones in the second half (of 2010),” said Hara, Investor Relations and Communications, Nvidia

Nvidia Tegra 2 chip to be launched in 2010

Since Zune HD drive, Tegra attained popularity very fast, and according to fudzilla, some high ranking industry sources has confirmed that after its so much demand and popularity the company has decided to launch a new chip in 2010. The Tegra 2 will be equipped ARM 9 which is a dual core ARM CPU. Smartbook market is the main focus of Tegra 2.

Lenovo to enter the Smartbook market! – Runs Google Chrome OS

According to Commercial Times (China), Lenovo is planning to launch a smartbook by the end of September 2009. The smartbook is rumored to use the Nvidia’s Tegra chipset and will use Google’s Chrome OS.

It is nice to see Lenovo using Chrome OS for their smartbook and not Google’s mobile phone OS, Android. After all, it does not makes any sense of using a mobile phone OS on a netbook.

Nvidia Tegra-Powered Netbook to be launched later this year

We are finally going to see a sub-$200 netbook soon as Nvidia’s Tegra Netbook is finally going to be launched at the end of this year. It will come with the new Tegra chip which also going to be used in the upcoming Microsoft Zune HD. This chip lets you enjoy full HD and Flash videos.

Nvidia has not unveiled the full specs yet, but they do have a prototype on display that features an 8.9-inch screen, Wi-Fi, 3G, and webcam. It does run Windows OS, but it is not Windows XP. Instead, it runs Microsoft CE OS. Nvidia also mentioned that the final product could be loaded with the Google Android OS.

Take a look at its picture, it is still using the small right shift key. It spoils the overall typing experience. They should better fix this before releasing the final product.

NVIDIA prefers Windows CE over Android for smartbooks

While some folks have been quite happy with Android as an OS for smartbooks, but General Manager of NVIDIA is certainly NOT one of them. NVIDIA’s general manager, Mike Rayfield says that he prefers Windows CE over Android OS in the case of smartbooks. Reason: Windows CE’s maturity and lack of a “rough user interface”. According to him, NVIDIA and Microsoft both are working together on Windows CE for Tegra-based systems.

I also personally feel that there is no point of running Android or Symbian OS on netbooks. Windows CE is way better than Android in terms of corporate acceptability and support. Having said that, I would still prefer to run Windows XP or Windows 7 on any of my netbooks. Why go for something inferior (Android) when you can run something much better (Windows)?