Nvidia chief Jen-Hsun Huang recently spoke with Nvidia executives and market analysts during a conference call and revealed that Android-based devices with Tegra 2 will hit the market by the end of the year. Huang wouldn't specify the manufacturers behind the Android devices, preferring to focus his wrath on Apple's A4 SoC, calling it Tegra 2's primary competitor over Qualcomm (Snapdragon), Texas Instruments (OMAP), and Intel (Moorestown).
"Although it made sense for the first-generation Androids to use available phone processors, the follow-up generations of Android are really going to go after performance," Huang said during the call. "And iPhones are out there, the iPhone 4G is coming, the iPad is obviously a revolutionary product. The bar is pretty high for all of the mobile players, and so they need a processor that can keep up with the A4. If not, be much better than what the A4 can do because they have to take on the leader in the space.
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During the call Huang also said that Nvidia's second-generation Tegra is doing well thanks to Android's "incredible" success, adding that the chip will come to the market with the third-generation Android.
It's speculated that, for now, Android may be the only place Nvidia can go in the mobile sector. Microsoft has denied Nvidia's commitment and handed Windows Phone 7 exclusivity over to Qualcomm. Nokia and Intel already have an exclusive partnership. And while it's unlikely that RIM would incorporate Tegra into its BlackBerry line, the only other candidate would be HP and its newly-acquired Palm webOS software.source
May 18, 2010
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