Posted on 01/24/2011 9:57:58 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
To keep the power draw reasonable, it would have an ULP (ultra low power) processor mode to presumably cut back on the clock speed or number of active cores to save on battery life. As with earlier Tegras, NVIDIA would have both the full-power tablet version, the T30, and a smartphone-optimized AP30 that would be limited to a 1366x768 main display but still have the option of quad-core in a large design.
Test samples of the Tegra 3 may have already started leaving the factory at the end of last year, but NVIDIA isn't expected to ship the new components until fall this year. The timing is such that it's more likely Tegra 3 won't be in stores until early 2012 for most devices.
The chip could make for the second major leap in mobile performance in a single year as dual-core tablets and smartphones will finally ship on a wide scale in the first few months of the year. Tegra 2 hardware will ship in the Motorola Atrix 4G and Xoom as well as many other Android-powered hardware. Apple is expected to answer back with dual-core iPads and iPhones using custom chips of its own, but its once a year update cycle makes it unlikely that it will have quad-core designs until mid-2012.
TI has a license for the ARM Eagle...which has a faster clock speed than the current stuff out there including Apple and Tegra2.
1900x1200 screen on a tablet? How big would the thing have to be and would it come with an asbestos pad for your lap?
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I’m not buying anything until next generation.
It is funny they put Apple as a natural competitor to Nvidia. Apple has in-house chip design, in fact bought the company that designed the Samsung Hummingbird and A4. But the basics like ARM and PowerVR technology in the A4 are licensed from others. There’s nothing stopping Apple from licensing Nvidia technology (which itself licenses ARM).
Global Foundries is doing 32 and 28 I believe....
TSMC had trouble with 40 nm which is what nvidia did the Fermi Graphic chips on.
Maybe in a few years I’ll be interested in tablets more. They’re still at the “toy” stage in a lot of ways, but wow are they developing fast.
Things like iPads are great, I just can’t think of a justification for spending the money on them. Yet. In a couple of years, maybe so.
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Very, very interesting.....another player enters the mix.
ARM is based in the UK....but Nvidia is USA.....Fabs are scattered around the Globe.
I think these pads will make good use as kitchen computers.
* Just put a magnet on the back and stick it on the fridge.
* Family schedules and calenders.
* Notes to family members entered on the pad, delivered by text, or e-mailed.
* Grocery lists.
* Bluetooth to other kitchen appliances.
* Music / TV / News reader with the morning cereal.
I think most of the apps already exist.
Understand. Thanks. Was not aware ARM is UK based.
Apple is expected to answer back with dual-core iPads and iPhones using custom chips of its own, but its once a year update cycle makes it unlikely that it will have quad-core designs until mid-2012.Thanks Ernest. Having used an iPad, I can say without doubt that I won't get one; the speed with which it operates is startling, and the interface is intuitive, but the screen's too effin' small. Period. I wound up holding it six inches from my face so I could make out what I'd surfed up off the wireless hotspot in my friends' condo.
See #15.
The picture becomes clearer as to why Microsoft announced the next version of Windows will support Tegra chips!
Is that your setup *_*
/me drools
But for decent rotatable monitors I have always loved Dell Ultrasharp’s and they have amazing screens too (can’t tell from the picture if your’s are Dells, look like they are).
I have an older 21” and a newer 23” in portrait on either side of my 27”, but still your setup takes the cake :P
BTW love the tag line flush twice haha awesome :)
Yup, that’s part of my home office.
The two thirty inchers you see there are a Dell on top, and a Samsung 305T on bottom. The 24” on the left is a Dell and the 24” on the right is a Hundai, filling in for a 24” gateway that began behaving sub-optimally... The desk is a Biomorph Pro Electric Desk, that I can use sitting or standing.
My most precious 30” monitor is not in this shot, but on another desk to the right. It is a Gateway Extreme that automatically upscales all inputs to 2560x1600 in real time. Hard to find those anymore... (There is another computer, a couple of Playstation 3’s and a SlingCatcher attached to it.)
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