Nvidia touts Tegra with $99 handheld net tablet notion
Want an internet handheld for under $100? That's what Nvidia is promising, courtesy of its ARM-based system-on-a-chip family, Tegra.
Nvidia also used Mobile World Congress today to tell all that Google's Android runs on its new Tegra APX 2600 SoC - a possible basis for the next iPhone, it's said - thanks to "close work" between …
So this chipset is designed for mobile internet devices, which seem typically to have a max screen resolution of 800x480 or so. The smallest screen that I've heard of that can do 720p is 8.9 inches. That doesn't excactly seem mobile. What are they indending to do with this chipset?
Or is the HD playback cabability just so they can stick some extra letters on the end of all the products?
They don't mean hardware accelerated Flash Player, do they ? After all, it's just a bytecode VM... and given the announcement yesterday from Adobe about bringing Player 10 to everything except the iWank...
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Nvidia touts Tegra with $99 handheld net tablet notion
Want an internet handheld for under $100? That's what Nvidia is promising, courtesy of its ARM-based system-on-a-chip family, Tegra. Nvidia also used Mobile World Congress today to tell all that Google's Android runs on its new Tegra APX 2600 SoC - a possible basis for the next iPhone, it's said - thanks to "close work" between …
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Posted Monday 16th February 2009 17:19 GMT
Robert Moore
The real question #
Does it run Linux?
Imagine a Beowulf Cluster..... Sorry wrong website...
Posted Monday 16th February 2009 19:11 GMT
Nexox Enigma
Screen permitting, indeed #
So this chipset is designed for mobile internet devices, which seem typically to have a max screen resolution of 800x480 or so. The smallest screen that I've heard of that can do 720p is 8.9 inches. That doesn't excactly seem mobile. What are they indending to do with this chipset?
Or is the HD playback cabability just so they can stick some extra letters on the end of all the products?
Posted Monday 16th February 2009 19:11 GMT
Rob
Oh well #
Had me up until "runs windows CE"
Posted Monday 16th February 2009 23:52 GMT
Anonymous Coward
Yum! #
Waiting impatiently for the arrival.
Posted Tuesday 17th February 2009 15:33 GMT
Tom Chiverton
Enhanced Flash ? #
They don't mean hardware accelerated Flash Player, do they ? After all, it's just a bytecode VM... and given the announcement yesterday from Adobe about bringing Player 10 to everything except the iWank...
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