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Nvidia is showcasing Google's Android mobile operating system running on its Tegra system-on-a-chip mobile phone stack at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Tegra integrates the central processing unit, graphics processing unit, northbridge, southbridge and primary memory functionality onto a single chip, for use in devices such as smartphones and netbooks. Nvidia is showing demonstration and development units running Android on its Tegra APX 2600 processor.
Nvidia also reckons to have limited a possible downside of the Tegra platform; is its inability to run full versions of Windows, as the ARM11 CPU embedded within Tegra chips can't execute x86 code. To overcome that Nvidia has a "complete software solution including Microsoft Windows Embedded CE OS, application viewers, full Internet browser, UI framework, board support package (BSP), software development kit (SDK), Web mail client, and more" on offer for any manufacturers adopting Tegra.
NVIDIA'S TEGRA HAS gone paranoid Android at MWC. The firm was earlier seen showing off its Tegra system on chip (SoC), running Google's Android OS and boasting about the firm's new Tegra 600 series platform which purportedly enables a $99, always-connected HD mobile internet device (MID) that can go days between battery charges. MWC seemed the perfect venue for Nvidia to show off Tegra, which integrates a CPU, GPU, northbridge, southbridge and memory controller all on the same little chip, which can be easily bunged into smartphones and little, tiny lappies. Rayfield noted he believed the Tegra-based platform combined "the best of both worlds." Personally, we reckon that 'best' may be taking it all a little far, but what Tegra does sport is 720p and 1080p video playback, Full Wi-fi and 3G connectivity and hardware support for Web 2.0 applications. It's also easy(er) on battery life and supports a Windows CE OS, application viewers, full Internet browser, UI framework, board support package (BSP), software development kit (SDK), Web mail client and a smorgasbord of other features.
Nvidia has introduced a new platform, based on the Nvidia Tegra 600 Series computer-on-a-chip that the company says will enable $99, always-on, always-connected HD mobile internet devices that will go days between battery charges. The Tegra MID will deliver 720p and 1080p video playback, "days" of use between charges, full Wi-Fi and 3G connectivity and "optimised" hardware support for Web 2.0 apps. In addition, Nvidia promises a complete software solution including Microsoft Windows Embedded CE OS, application viewers, full internet browser, UI framework, software development kit, Web mail client, "and more".
Nvidia has suggested that its Tegra chipset should see the arrival of a £70 mobile internet device with HD video playback. The 'computer on a chip' Tegra concept from Nvidia shown at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, runs Windows CE and has a slide-out keyboard. But it is perhaps the price point that will conjure the most interest, with a $99 estimate for the device. The device appears to be firmly picking a spot between two stools - netbooks and smartphones - but if the price point is right then it could well tap into a new market in the same way as the Eee PC opened up sub-notebooks.
NVIDIA claims its TEGRA platform (a low-cost, low-power-consumption chipset combining 3G and WiFi connectivity with HD video recording and playback) will enable $99 MID devices with high-end multimedia and Internet abilities.
Nvidia has officially announced that it is bringing Android to its Tegra platform, allowing 'advanced user experiences that leverage web and internet content'. The decision to support Android makes the entire Tegra platform more attractive to manufacturers – who can choose between Microsoft's operating system or what is ostensibly Google's.
Having spent much of this year talking up its netbook offering, NVIDIA today has unveiled a new platform designed for another Intel inspired form factor - the mobile internet device (MID). This new platform is based on the NVIDIA Tegra 600 series ‘computer-on-a-chip'. NVIDIA claims it will enable an ‘always on' MID to go for days between battery charges. The MID is intended to reside somewhere between smartphones and netbooks in terms of size and usage model. Just as netbooks can vary widely in size and functionality, the definition of a MID remains vague. However it aspires to be a truly mobile device (which should mean it can fit in a pocket) with some PC-like functionality.
Nvidia said Tegra chips would bring advanced graphics capabilities to smartphones while drawing less power. The support for the Android platform is an attempt to drive up Tegra's adoption among smartphone makers. Nvidia is displaying an Android-based phone with a Tegra chip at the GSMA Mobile World Congress being held in Barcelona from Monday to Thursday. Tegra-based phones will combine advanced graphics, better battery life and always-on Internet access… Smartphone makers can now use the Android platform to build Web 2.0 and Internet-based applications for Tegra-based smartphones.
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 the chip maker, the online advertising company and the Open Handset Alliance.
