Nvidia's New Mobile Media Processor

univeralifepadre writes "Saw this scroll by quickly on the TechTV ticker; Nvidia has a new GPU for handhelds, the GoForce 2150. It supports image capture up to 1.3 megapixels, has hardware jpeg encoding, and a 64-bit 2d graphics engine."

Comments

Is that all it does?

[kinnell]

I fail to see the advantage of this. If you are going to produce a video coprocessor for handhelds, why not include mpeg encode/decode? Why not partner with someone else to also include audio encode/decode. More to the point, why not put everything onto a system-on-chip, along with the CPU, like sony have done with their handheld engine?

Presumably Nvidia think they have a market for this chip, but I think selling it as an IP core would be a much smarter idea.

Bulverde

[buback]

sounds like the image capture features of this chip might overlap the abilities on intel's next xscale processor, which has some sort of ccd controler built in.

That might make this chip more prominent in devices with samsung processors, whith intel new Bulverde processor pairing with ati.