OK, Nvidia's Tegra has been MIA in last months. Nobody knows whats up with it. Well finally, they came out of hybernation and announced that the Tegra chip will start shipping mid 2009. What??? mid of 09 start shipping that chip? then manufacturers will start to build a device around it after they have it? OMFG! U make people wait this long, They or I may say we will not wait for it at all! Prolly, when the device finally comes out, it's an old news already. Ha! Iphone might release something that will ruin ur plans way before U even release ur Tegra.
Here's the news:
Nvidia plans to ship its new Tegra system-on-a-chip for mobile devices by the middle of next year, the company's CEO said on Thursday.
The coming-out party for Tegra will be in the spring of 2009, said Jen-Hsun Huang, Nvidia's president and CEO, during a conference call to discuss its financial results. Spring in the U.S. runs from about April to June. Development of the chip is going well, he said.
Announced earlier this year, Tegra puts an Arm processor core, a GeForce graphics core and other components, including a high-definition video decoder, onto a single chip. The product lineup will include the Tegra 600 running at 700MHz and the Tegra 650 running at 800MHz. It will also include the Tegra APX 2500.
Tegra will put Nvidia in direct competition with Intel, which released its low-power Atom processors earlier this year. Apple is also taking a stab at the mobile chip market, using the acquisition of PA Semi earlier this year to develop systems-on-chips for the iPhone.
There are big expectations on Tegra as a major revenue generator for Nvidia next year, Huang said. On Thursday the company announced revenue for its third quarter of US$897.7 million, down 20 percent from the sale quarter the year before. Net income was $61.7 million, down from $235.7 million last year.
Taken from here:
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscente..._ceo_says.html