NVIDIA Tegra, computer-to-chip, already on the way
NVIDIA Corporation has recently managed to prove to everyone how it is “easy to recovery” in the development of new lines of business, proof - the project Tesla, ambitious plans in the market with chip Smartphone 2.0 APX 2500, and more. It seems at this surprises from NVIDIA does not end, because of rumours in the shortest possible time, we are awaiting announcement of an entirely new design company - a full-fledged “PC-to-chip” (SoC) with the code name NVIDIA Tegra.
What is Tegra? Unfortunately, at this moment no technical data on this platform not available, actually, only a hearing with this name the new platform, while the rest can only guess. But since we all speculate much, and basic logic can be two versions.
The first version: NVIDIA Tegra integrated CPU kernel is not based architecture x86. Version, frankly, slabenkaya because, firstly, this project has already officially announced the company is meant chip APX 2500 based on licensed ARM processor kernel 11 and graphic kernel GoForce 6100.
The second version: NVIDIA Tegra will be based on the kernel processor architecture x86. If so, it will turn out really great intrigue, you can even say intrigue in 2008 ? 1 because it’s nothing else as a pebble in the garden AMD and Intel. Where can take NVIDIA x86 processor? Instances actually a little bit, past abandoned architecture has been dismantled, perhaps somewhere in a half of uncertainty (between AMD and Limbu) perceived x86-compatible architecture Transmeta, but hardly talk about it.
However ends By converge with the ends, given the recent noise in the press about the possibility of buying the company assets NVIDIA Taiwan VIA. Rumours these poburlili and uleglis; official at the top of the iceberg have only a statement of building a dense cooperation between the two companies. So, maybe, just rumours about this?
If you dream more, afraid to imagine what “bomb” will turn out if the “cross” on the same substrate as a whole, successful cost-CPU kernel VIA C7-M (and eventual 2 - nuclear nucleus VIA CN “Isaiah”) with chipsetnymi and graphic art NVIDIA mobile solutions as well as add to the finance, with semiconductor manufacturers, marketing and rapid onset NVIDIA. In this light rumours of companies working together on a platform at a price less than $ 45 may well be true, and NVIDIA Tegra certainly will force aside timid projects like VIA Luke, and potentially could Done a lot of “noise” on seemingly mature market of mobile x86 platforms.
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