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NVIDIA Enters the Mobile CPU Market

Posted by kdawson on from the or-should-we-say-mobile-gpu dept.

Vigile writes "NVIDIA just announced the new Tegra line, a complete system architecture on one chip. Built around a licensed x86 ARM 11 CPU, this tiny chip (smaller than a US dime) includes a processor, memory controller, southbridge, and 3D and video processors. The SoC design is meant to give iPhone-type devices a more impressive visual experiences while maintaining idle power consumption under 100 mW. While not a direct competitor to Intel's Atom or VIA's Nano processors, the NVIDIA Tegra will no doubt push the envelope in handhelds and cement NVIDIA's place in the world of computing going forward."

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  1. Not x86 by zsazsa · · Score: 5, Informative

    The article summary is wrong or has a typo or something. This is not on some weird hybrid x86/ARM platform; it's just ARM.

  2. Cat got your tongue? (something important seems to by DrunkenTerror · · Score: 5, Informative

    Ars had a good article about it

    Stupid lameness filter.

  3. Dupe by Hektor_Troy · · Score: 5, Informative

    We had the exact same thing yesterday

    http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/06/02/1441214

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  4. Re:OoO ?? by klingens · · Score: 5, Informative

    Out of Order execution

  5. Re:Don't underestimate ARM. by serviscope_minor · · Score: 4, Informative

    The point is that the EEE has sold many, many units running Linux. This demonstrates that people are prepared to accept Linux and therefore x86 is unnecessary since Linux does not require it.

    Linux being OK implies that x86 is unnecessary.

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  6. I don't think so. by EmbeddedJanitor · · Score: 4, Informative
    I've been a WinCE OS-level developer for quite a few years (since 1.0) and currently have the low level dev tools for WinCE6 on a PC.

    No SMP in sight, not even in the emulator. If you know differently, I'd like to know.

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