Category: notebook components
By: Deepika gwalani
NVidia wants Tegra to conquer the ultra-portable space
The latest platform from the graphics giant is hailed as more powerful than the Atom
Softpedia reports of a conversation of CNN with NVIDIA's Chief Executive Officer, Jen-Hsun Huang, where he mentioned the Santa Clara Company’s plans and expectations for the tablet and mobile sectors. He wants the Tegra platform to take center stage, mainly in the fast emerging sectors like tablets and smartphones. This optimism is sure fueled by the fact that the iPad does not support Flash at all, and also there is no multi-touch capability. On the other hand, Tegra 2, powered by an ARM-based processor, is expected to support these both.
There is also the netbook market. Intel Atom no doubt is the king of processors in the netbook sector, but only in popularity, not in terms of performance. The graphics capabilities of the Atom-powered machine are believed to be low. This drawback is being exploited by graphics giants like NVidia and AMD is planning to do it shortly.
NVidia has made significant progress in this front. They had the ION first where an NVidia graphics chip is put together along with an Atom processor, and then brought out the Tegra which is a chip that integrates the ARM architecture processor CPU, GPU, northbridge, southbridge and memory controller onto a single package. This should enable the Tegra-powered systems to yield high performance while keeping the energy consumption low.
The latest Tegra-based device that was shown in CeBit this year is called Tegra SoC. It promises to handle even 1080p level of HD playback, as well as Flash and multitasking, all of these while consuming minimum power. Note that this chip will not run any of the Apple products.
Going by the time-frame Jen has described, the Tegra 2 has already been developed, and it should not be not far before we start witnessing the systems shipping.
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