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Printed On: | September 7, 2008, 6:52 am |
| Category: | Processors | |
| Type: | Reviews | |
| Posted By: | floppy | |
| Date Posted: | June 1, 2008, 4:42 pm |
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Nvidia Tegra - the essential essence
We managed to hit Taiwan just in time to attend Nvidia's Tegra processor launch at Shinkon Mitsuko. The NDA for this little processing monster was lited at 1600 GMT +8 earlier today, and Nvidia formally introduced the Tegra family of processors hand in hand with ARM and Microsoft, the world's first single-chip computer that is capable of handing high definition playback and promises internet experience on your mobile devices that's similar to a 'visual PC experience', whist consuming the minimal amount of power needed.
According to Jen-Hsun Huang, president and CEO at Nvidia, the Tegra was an immense challenge to the corporation. The Tegra was engineered as a platform that will enable absolute mobility consuming minimal power, allowing devices to last days on a single charge and yet able to deliver high-defitinion media and computing experience that one would expect from our Personal Computer. Nvidia accumulated more than 1,000 man years of engineering, building the Tegra from ground up as a computer-on-a-chip architecture that consumes 100 times less power than any conventional solution that is available in the market today.
Shinkon Mitsuko A9
Bando 8, place of conference
Tegra Devices displayed
Tegra using Nvidia's unique 3D APX
Tegra outputting via HDMI to a Dell 2408WFP
The Tegra doing what an EEE 901 would do at 10% of the power consumption.
The miniature silicon of the compete Tegra solution
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Key personnel giving their speeches
Rob Csongor, VP of Corporate Marketing, Nvidia delivering his speech
Ian Lao, Senior Analyst at In-Stat explaining to the press about the Tegra advantage
Michael Rayfield, General Manager of Mobule Business Unit, Nvidia presenting the Tegra in detail
The eventual evolution of Tegra. The current Tegra APX2500 processor sports an 800Mhz ARM CPU, and the 2nd in line, we have the Tegra 650 which can be found in the next generation of WIndow Mobile smartphones in collaboration with Microsoft.
<1W power consumption on average on a 144 sqmm PCB with a high-perf Geforce GPU core. Fantastic huh?
Nvidia has positioned the Tegra as the eventual competition against intel's Atom
The Tegra architecture in detail, featuring an ARM 11 processor, a seperate Image processor along with a Geforce GPU core with HD decoding, with USB OTG, UART, HDMI & security support.
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Atom vs Tegra - in perspective
Size of boards compared.
Power consumption - Tegra vs Atom in perspective
Nvidia has also developed an intuitive touch APX for the Tegra platform which utilizes multi-touch technology
Quake 3 on the Tegra!
....and at the same time, consuming 1.3Watts of power...
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Nvidia ARMed
Mr Michael Rayfield back on stage presenting. The first product that promises Tegra is the Nokia N810 mobile phone.
...and Nvidia hopes to ship 400 million units by 2010.
The ARM11 processor promises the absolute advantage over the Atom Z500.
ARM as a partner
Mr Eddie Wu, Managing Director of Asia Embedded Devices, Microsoft giving his speech towards the end of the conference.
and the Tegra coupled up with eye-candy, Taiwanese Style!
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