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NVIDIA CEO slates Tegra competitors

by Scott Bicheno on 25 May 2010, 14:38

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And the others?

Moving onto the rest of the competition, Huang was predictably dismissive about Intel's latest effort - when asked if it could compete. "No. It's not possible. You could give an elephant a diet but it's still an elephant," he said.

"And meanwhile Tegra 2 is already much superior to Atom from a performance perspective. And so now we're already dual-core, and then next year I assume Tegra 3 comes out, and then, you know, here we are increasing performance at a lightning rate and power is incredibly low, so I think it's going to be tough for them."

Tegra 2's biggest competitor remains Qualcomm's Snapdragon, and Huang reckons Tegra 2 phones will offer longer battery life than Snapdragon ones. "The reason for that is architectural. The Snapdragon uses a very fast processor, a very high-frequency processor, to do most of its work.

"Whereas Tegra is eight processors on one chip. So we use the right processors to do the right job, and so we offload as much as possible to the GPU, instead of having the CPU do a lot of the work. And meanwhile all of the other processors are completely shut off."

Just as were thinking TI's OMAP had been spared Huang's disdain, he got talking about webOS - recently acquired, along with Palm, by HP. "I think the world will want webOS. I think it's a fabulous operating system," he said. "If you look at the first generation of webOS phones, the Palm Pre, the UI is just brilliant. It's just too slow. So it needs a faster processor. Otherwise, it's a great operating system."

Guess what chip the Palm Pre has in it.

 



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See, here's the thing about Tegra's competitors…… They're actually competing in the open market, instead of proclaiming that their product is the second coming of silicon, with just as much fantasy, and just as little substance.

When Tegra gets >50% market share over its competitors and everyone starts raving about how awesome their Tegra-enabled phones are, then I'll be impressed.
I have only one thing to say to Nvidia. STOP TALKING !!! It's been two years if not more we are hearing about Tegra but we are not seeing any. And please nobody mentions Zune… If you really want to compete you must have something that it will enable you to compete, like an actual product.