NVIDIA Tegra 2 officially launched
[CES 2010] Tegra 2 is official and put simply, it looks awesome. NVIDIA estimates that it is four times faster than the original Tegra chip while staying in the same potential and thermal envelope. And looking at the diagram, we can understand why: the chip combines 8 processors: two Arm Cortex A9, one ARM 7, an image processor, an HD video decode processor, an HD video encode processor, and audio processor and a graphics processor (GPU), phew! Thanks to all that ability, NVIDIA says that it succeeds in playing local 1080p video and stream HD video (flash) where competitors like Qualcomm and Intel fail. And it
does it while using less potential. NVIDIA’s battery life estimate is 140+hrs for music playback, 12hrs for 180p video playback and 6 hours of continual HD web streaming. According to these numbers, Tegra 2 consumes about 7x less than Snapdragon. The chips will come in different packages to address markets like smartphones, multimedia players, automotive entertainment, but additionally smartbooks. Developer boards are already available.Permalink: NVIDIA Tegra 2 officially launched from Ubergizmo | Hot: Blackberry Bold 9700 Review
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