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Lenovo and Acer rumored to be rolling out new, Tegra-powered devices

Written by IT News on 4:24 AM

Lenovo and Acer rumored to be rolling out new, Tegra-powered devices

NVIDIA actively promote its Tegra chip for a while now, but despite the efforts of the chip maker, Tegra-powered devices have, thus far, is hard to find. But according to a recent rumor that has appeared on the Internet, would chip maker has landed a few major design wins from two of the largest PC vendors in the world, namely Acer and Lenovo. Both companies are known to have worked together with NVIDIA on a number of its newest computer, Aspire Revo and IdeaPad S12, respectively.

According to a recent report on Shanzhai.com, suggesting a "reliable" source, both Lenovo and Acer recently planning to launch new netbooks that would be based on Nvidia's Tegra platform. Better yet, it seems that these products can be used with the much-hyped Google Chrome is already active in the Mon Unfortunately, there are no specific details on the specifications for such devices, other than the above processing platform and operating system.

It is still too early to say if rumors are to be trusted, but if so, a significant change for NVIDIA, which has sought to expand its product portfolio for the traditional market for high-performance graphics cards. Tegra is a platform as a low-power ARM processor combined with an NVIDIA graphics chip, allowing PC vendors to HD, video-ready, low power to evolve. What is interesting is the rumor of Google Chrome the operating system, which is not expected to be in the units until sometime next year, according to Mountain View, California-based search giant.

It will be interesting to see whether the two PC makers actually said the expansion of Tegra devices, in which case ATI will make a new market segment that is likely to compete in the netbook segment and the wide range of Wintel netbooks.

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Mobinnova 8.9-inch Tegra-powered netbook due out this year

Written by IT News on 9:27 AM

According to recent data that has just occurred on the Internet computer users face a number of new ARM-based smart books will be launched during the fourth quarter of this year. The new models will compete with Intel's highly anticipated Pine Trail-based netbooks and will be available from a number of system suppliers, including Acer, Foxconn Electronics, Pegatron Technology, COMPAL Electronics and Inventec Appliances. The next wave of smart books powered by ARM-based platforms such as Qualcomm's snapdragon or NVIDIA's Tegra much hype.

In a recent news article on DigiTimes on industrial sources, Acer, Foxconn Electronics and other industry players said to be preparing the launch of a new series of ARM-based smart books with either snapdragon or Tegra platform. Acer would have developed both ARM and android-based products, which are expected to be available in Q4 2009.

ASUSTeK, one of the pioneers in the netbook industry, has reportedly said that there is sufficient demand from the market for ARM-based smart books, for whatever reason, the Taiwanese company is not thinking of something smart on its own books until November or December at the earliest.

Mobi Nova is expected to begin volume shipping its 8.9-inch Tegra-powered smart book at the end of this year, honoring orders from airlines in the U.S. and Europe, says the company stated. Moreover Mobi Nova also plans for an ultra-thin 8.9-inch smart book and a 10.1-inch system since the first half of 2010.

Inventec is reported to plan the launch of its 10-inch Rainbow smart book that will be built with Nvidia's Tegra platform. The system is at the end of the year, the company says in talks with several airlines for joint marketing of future products.

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NVIDIA reports first quarter loss of approximately US$200 million

Written by IT News on 4:43 AM

NVIDIA has recently reported its financial results for first quarter ended April 26, 2009. The results were published by the graphics chip, which the company's revenue fell to $664.2 million, compared with $1.2 billion in the first fiscal quarter last year. At 37 cents per share, the Green Goblin reported a net loss of $201.3 million, a decrease of 42 percent over the same period last year. But despite the low earnings, the company's CEO, Mr Jen-Hsun Huang wanted to point out that his company was faced with the possibility that the Tegra chip.

"We have made good progress expenditure management and a significant reduction in the stock and continue to invest in our growth strategies," said Jen-Hsun Huang, president and CEO of NVIDIA. "The GPU has become more central to our computing experience. It is a rapidly growing number of applications that depend on the GPU, and the industry is gearing up for the next generation of operating systems that adopt GPU computing. “

NVIDIA CEO wanted to emphasize the fact that despite the lower financial results, the company has maintained a revenue growth of 38 percent and a reduction in stock from 144 days to 64 compared to last quarter of 2008. In addition, the chip maker emphasizes the fact that its Tegra system-on-chip (SOC) product had the opportunity to open the doors to a whole new market, NVIDIA to reach new heights.

A leader in the graphics, NVIDIA has been a busy first quarter of this year as a number of new products, including some of its GeForce lineup. But among the highlights were the introduction of its 3D Vision product, and the launch of the first desktop computer to show off the company ION platform. These new products are expected in 2009, with more to come at the end of the year.

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Tegra-powered HP Mini netbook

Written by IT News on 12:55 AM

NVIDIA is showing an HP 1000 Mini-PC at CTIA, with one of its highest-mediated Tegra processors specially designed to provide the necessary computing power for smartphones and mobile Internet devices. Although it did not result in direct cooperation with HP to develop a Tegra-powered Mini Netbook, they wanted to overcome the many factors that may cause
used to determine the computing power of the Tegra chip.

Scholars over at Engadget have been in place and have pictures and a video on Tegra-powered Mini, which offers you a better understanding of what such a device is capable of. But before you hope that Tegra is an ARM-based chip, which means that there is no unit that is designed to ensure that the benefits of the performance potential offered familiar with a Windows XP or Vista operating systems. This was the case in Tegra-based Mini 1000 Netbook.

Unlike other NVIDIA Tegra powered devices have demonstrated the Mini is connected with HDMI connection and give users a better solution, in comparison with most mids, which in the past. The system was developed by a Windows CE operating system and can play YouTube videos and surf the Web just as you'd expect from a MID processor.

There is still some confusion about whether we ever get a Netbook powered by NVIDIA Tegra, or even a device that offered with a larger display. But it is nice to see that NVIDIA has a fully functional solution, which is probably the market to revolutionize the computers as we know it today. Even Tegra-powered Netbook could be a reliable alternative to all Intel-based Netbook, known for the lack of graphics performance.