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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

If it’s as advertised, just tell me where to get one. But I’m not going to India.


3 posted on 02/26/2010 9:28:13 AM PST by thefactor (yes, as a matter of fact, i DID only read the excerpt)
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To: thefactor

The specs look promising. I’m interested too but I detest Indian customer service & tech.


5 posted on 02/26/2010 9:30:56 AM PST by max americana
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To: thefactor
Not certain this is in the Adam...but it seems likely

From Anandtech....:

NVIDIA Introduces dual Cortex A9 based Tegra 2

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The SoC is made up of 8 independent processors, up from 7 in the original Tegra. The first two are the most exciting to me - a pair of ARM Cortex A9 cores. These are dual-issue out of order cores from ARM running at up to 1GHz.

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The video decode side is where NVIDIA believes it has an advantage. Tegra's video decode processor accelerates up to 1080p high profile H.264 video at bitrates in the 10s of megabits per second. The Samsung SoC in the iPhone 3GS is limited to only 480p H.264 decode despite Samsung claiming 1080p decode support on its public Cortex A8 SoC datasheets. NVIDIA insists that no one else can do 1080p decode at high bitrates in a remotely power efficient manner. Tegra's 1080p decode can be done in the low 100s of mW. NVIDIA claims that the competition often requires well over 1W of total system power to do the same because they rely on the CPU to do some of the decoding. Again, this is one of those difficult to validate claims. Imagination has demonstrated very low CPU utilization 1080p H.264 decode on its PowerVR SGX core, but I have no idea of the power consumption.

7 posted on 02/26/2010 9:36:32 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach ( Support Geert Wilders)
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