Nvidia released some of the names and models of its Tegra-based netbooks and notebooks the company talked about on Monday.
In a post earlier today, Gizmodo pooh-poohed the no-names that are showing off the Tegra, an attitude that I think misses the point. Recall that Acer, Dell, HP and others don’t actually build PCs any more; they use a network of Taiwan and Chinese ODMs to build them, and, increasingly, design them. Getting the Taiwan ODMs to back Tegra is a sly way to encourage OEMs to ship them.
But even the ODMs support isn’t critical. Nvidia invited twenty or so
mobile-phone carriers to Taiwan to try and persuade them to commission,
say, a Verizon-branded netbook. that’s where Nvidia sees the volume. Again, it’s these ODMs that will be
building them.
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