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by Stephen Schenck | March 19, 2013 2:48 PMRead OnWe've yet to see the first phones and tablets arrive running NVIDIA's Tegra 4 SoCs. While there was some uncertainty for awhile about NVIDIA's ability to attract an OEM to employ the Tegra 4, last month we learned that ZTE would be releasing phones featuring the Tegra 4 by the middle of the year. Even with months to go until those devices arrive, NVIDIA already has its sights set on the future of its mobile processor offerings, and at the GPU Technology Conference in San Jose, CEO Jen Hsun-Huang spelled-out what hardware is next from his company. Following Tegra 4 will be an SoC codenamed ...
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by Stephen Schenck | February 21, 2013 6:44 PMRead OnEarlier this month, we heard that NVIDIA was running into problems getting companies interested in using its new Tegra 4 chips in their smartphones and tablets. More recently, we learned that the first of these SoCs would be made available to interested manufacturers in Q2 2013, but still didn't have a solid read on just who (besides NVIDIA itself) was interested in using them. We heard that ASUS might be a possibility, but today we get our first real confirmed OEM, with ZTE announcing plans to create phones built around Tegra 4 chips. These quad-core A15-based phones could be out even ...
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by Stephen Schenck | February 14, 2013 4:39 PM
Read OnNVIDIA's A15-based Tegra 4 SoC has the potential to be one of the big chips to arrive this year. While we've heard that the company has been having trouble getting manufacturers to commit to the Tegra 4, that's just a rumor for the moment, and the Tegra 3 certainly made it into a whole lot of products. NVIDIA announced the chip back during the CES, but so far we haven't had much of an idea of when the first Tegra 4-running products might end up launching. We finally have a preliminary timetable now, thanks to the company's revelations during a call to investors. The Tegra 4 should first ...
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by Stephen Schenck | February 1, 2013 11:29 AMRead OnIn the past, NVIDIA managed to get a leg up on other companies by introducing its dual-core and quad-core designs in advance of its competition. This time around, though, it hasn't recaptured that advantage; Samsung already has an A15 chip in the Nexus 10, and the newly-announced Qualcomm chips and Samsung's Exynos 5 Octa sound just as good, if not better than the Tegra 4. Perhaps as a result of that, some new rumors suggest that NVIDIA is having a really hard time getting manufacturers to place its Tegra 4 in their new products. According to the industry sources of Digitimes, so far only ...
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by Joe Levi | January 8, 2013 1:42 PMRead OnNVIDIA isn't the only chip maker showing off new technology at this year's CES. Qualcomm has some news, too. Just incase you don't remember, Qualcomm makes the Snapdragon SoC and in particular the S4 line that powers our high-end smartphones and tablets. To start with, Qualcomm is changing the naming scheme of their processors to help differentiate the powers and abilities of their various chipsets. The new 800 series is high-end, 600's and 400's are middle-tier, and lower-end chips are in the 200's. Let's focus on the higher-end goodies for a moment. The Qualcomm 800-series ...
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by Joe Levi | January 7, 2013 10:01 AMRead On
NVIDIA has long been one of my favorite chip-making companies. Back in the PC days they were always leap-frogging ATI to see who could make the best video card on the market. NVIDIA has since moved into more than just graphics and has a fairly impressive presence in mobile technology, specifically SoCs. The best NVIDIA SoC on the market today is their Tegra 3. Unfortunately, it's starting to show its age. Not to worry, at this year's CES, NVIDIA announced the Tegra 4! Not unlike the Tegra 3, inside the Tegra 4 is a quad-core CPU with an extra "low-power core" to help extend battery life. ...
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by Anton D. Nagy | January 7, 2013 2:10 AMRead OnWhile not a mobile device, the just-announced Project SHIELD is NVIDIA's new portable gaming console which is the first gadget powered by the Tegra 4 SoC, also recently announced at CES 2013. It just so happens that is a "pure Android", as the manufacturer refers to it, thus giving access to any game title on the Google Play Store. It can also stream games from a PC that has one of the company's GeForce GTX GPUs at its core, with access to titles on the online STEAM game library. The Tegra 4 SoC is the one powering this gaming portable, delivering "enormous power from its custom 72-core ...
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by Stephen Schenck | January 7, 2013 12:12 AM
Read OnWhen it came to dual-core SoCs, and then quad-core SoCs, NVIDIA led the way. More recently, though, we've seen Samsung get the jump on it with the race to A15-based processors. In Las Vegas tonight, the stakes are high as NVIDIA gets the CES rolling with its press conference, where we've been hoping to learn how the company next plans to innovate in a very competitive mobile-processing landscape. After talking a lot about cloud-based gaming, NVIDIA came through with its big SoC news: the Tegra 4. Like the Tegra 3, the company is sticking with a four main core plus one low-power core ...
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