Tegra 2, with double the power being announced at CES 2010

December 16, 2009 | By Surur

Nvidia has been talking about their Tegra roadmap since earlier this year, and now they have made things a bit more official. According to Michael Hara, senior vice president of investor relations and communications at the company, a major announcement is coming in at CES.

“At CES we are going to make a major announcement about Tegra family. It is highly possible that we will see some very interesting form-factors coming out at the same time. [There will be products] shown by our partners using the next-generation Tegra device. You are going to see roll-outs and deployments of tablet PCs, smartbooks, netbooks, MIDs throughout the first half [of the year]; and then you will see major roll-outs of smartphones in the second half” Michael Hara, senior vice president of investor relations and communications, NVIDIA

The second generation of Tegra devices is expected to have double the power of today’s chipsets, and have a more modern ARM instruction set.

“You want to have fast response times and switching between your windows [on the desktop], you want to see high-definition videos, you want to see high-definition images, so, your experience is about HD Internet. Our objective with Tegra is to deliver the same experience to your handheld devices” Michael Hara

Devices featuring the chip are expected to arrive towards the end of 2010. One do however need to bear in mind however that Nvidia has been promising many more Tegra devices than they have actually delivered this year, and face formidable competition from Qualcomm and Texas Instruments, who appear to have better industry relations than the company.

Source: Slashgear via WMExperts.com

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Hope that this will live up to the hype. I want my next mobile powered by one of these!!!!
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Wont be interested in tegra until it has a cpu at least as fast as the snapdragon. If they can do that then i wont buy another phone without it. until something better comes along.

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Tegra 2 is packing a dual core CPU (Cortex-A9 MPCore). The speed of the CPU doesn't matter at all, it's the tech behind it. The tech behind the Snapdragon sucks, it's all brute force/speed. I'd rather have a better engineered, lower clocked CPU, which hopefully the A9 is. I assume it will be, because the A8 is a great CPU

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By speed i just mean work speed not clock speed. i hope it's faster at tasks than snapdragon. I'm also hoping for higher efficiency.
rad

Actually Snapdragon is an implementation of the ARMv7 instruction set, the same as Cortex A8. In fact, it's actually slightly faster clock-for-clock than A8 for some types of operations and has Qualcomm's custom FPU that's faster than the A8 reference design. So it's both high tech and brute force.

Tegra 2's CPU is a reference implementation of Cortex A9 (as Tegra 1's was of ARM11). One thing to keep in mind, though, is that the dual-core CPU will be useless in WM, as WinCE5/6 lack SMP support. But Tegra 2 won't be coming to market in a phone anytime soon either, so it should be fine. WM7 launch devices in a year's time (at the end of 2010) will probably include Tegra 2, OMAP 4, Snapdragon 2, etc.

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