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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. Yer! ARM laptop by jabjoe · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I've been waiting for ARM laptop thing. Real battery life! Why do I need x86 compatibility? Give me battery life every time.

    1. 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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  2. Quake 3 by ELTaNiN · · Score: 5, Funny

    May it run Doom instead?

  3. More details by Meorah · · Score: 5, Informative

    for those who actually enjoy RTFA'ing and want a bit more comprehensive info than a BBC fluff piece, nvidia's marketing page, and some pretty vids on engadget:

    http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/37729/135

    The APX 2500 is far more interesting to me than the 600/650. Qualcomm and Broadcom better watch their backs.

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  4. Re:Worth waiting for... by freedumb2000 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Then have a look at this little machine: http://openpandora.org/

  5. Re:Quake3 anti-aliased at 40FPS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's at 800x480, and the Quake3 port was a quick hack to test the chip, not a serious performance-tuned effort (i.e. it isn't using the vertex shaders at all, and the pixel shaders are using a very crude translation scheme from Q3's shader language). I'm fairly sure I could get a tuned port to run 100's of frames/sec on the same hardware. More modern games (Doom3/Quake4) would actually run better, but we didn't have the source to play with (and the game datasets are probably a bit large for the platform).

  6. Re:Media player. by Hal_Porter · · Score: 5, Funny

    I can sell you an isotopically pure copper Ethernet cable which I have personally tested for warm sound when streaming MP3s.

    Normal price, $100 per foot. But I have a 50% discount for AVS Forum posters. And special this month I'll throw in an ethernet cable impedance tester to tell you when you need to replace your cables due to oxidation.

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