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.