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nVidia Preview 'Tegra' MID Platform

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the fits-in-the-something-of-your-something dept.

wild_berry writes "nVidia have previewed their Mobile Internet Device platform which will be officially unveiled at Computex in the next few days. The platform features CPU's named Tegra paired with nVidia chipset and graphics technology. Tegra is a system-on-a-chip featuring an ARM 11 core and nVidia's graphics technologies permitting 1080p HiDef television decode and OpenGL ES 2.0 3D graphics. Engadget's page has more details, such as the low expected price ($199-249), huge battery life (up to 130 hours audio/30 hours HD video) and enough graphics power to render Quake3 anti-aliased at 40FPS."

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  1. Worth waiting for... by LinuxGeek · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I almost bought an Asus EEE pc this weekend, this is worth waiting to see how it is implemented in consumer devices. Give me a small laptop type that can run linux and I'll buy one or two. Heck, 30 or 40 hours would be enough battery time, don't need 100.

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  2. Re:Sounds like the same advertising from the EEE.. by Svartalf · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Patience...

    Pandora comes...and it is looking like it's going to largely deliver on the "promises" it makes.

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  3. Re:Yer! ARM laptop by zeromorph · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Yes, looks like a new round in the CISC (now represented by Intel Atom) vs. RISC (now represented by Tegra) flame war. Ars Teechnica had an interesting article about the new relevance of the differences of the two architectures two weeks ago.

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  4. Re:Quake3 anti-aliased at 40FPS by eebra82 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Sounds like an interesting toy, but aren't we twisting the measurements a bit here? Quake 3 came out in 1999. Any modern graphic chip has the graphics power to render Q4 at much faster than 40 FPS. You are missing the point. It's not as much about how fast it can run Quake 3, but rather that it is capable of doing so reasonably well. You cannot compare it to modern graphics engines simply because this is a processor that promises to deliver reasonable performance at incredibly low voltages.

    As for the resolution, I agree that it's rather strange that they left out the details on this, but we can assume that it's going to be something like 640x400, which is still very impressive.
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