Jan 08

MSI shows off 10-inch Android tablet running new Tegra chipset

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Tablet-ed out yet? We didn’t think so. MSI has a 10-inch Android tablet on display at CES here. There aren’t many details (like price, release date and internals), but we do know it’s running one of those new Tegra 2 chips. Up front there’s a pretty nice 10-inch capacitive display, which is plenty responsive. Like other tablets we’ve been seeing, the device is a bit thicker and heavier than we’d like, but hopefully that paves the way for some substantial battery life. We might still not know the “why,” but the “how” is certainly coming together.

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MSI shows off 10-inch Android tablet running new Tegra chipset originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 08 Jan 2010 14:24:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Dec 22

ASUS Eee Pad rumored to have multitouch, Tegra

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Details on ASUS’s rumored Eee Pad were fairly light when the rumors first surfaced, but it looks like things are now starting to get fleshed out a bit more as we near a possible announcement at CES next month. The latest word comes from Netbooknews‘ sources, who have reportedly all but confirmed that the tablet / handheld will indeed have full multitouch capabilities, and that it definitely won’t be running Windows CE (still no word what it will be running). Slightly less certain but more interesting is talk that the Eee Pad will run on NVIDIA’s Tegra platform — or, possibly, Tegra 2, which just so happens to be slated to launch at CES as well.

ASUS Eee Pad rumored to have multitouch, Tegra originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 22 Dec 2009 19:52:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Dec 16

NVIDIA promises Tegra 2 chipset and third party hardware at CES

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For an upstart mobile chipset, Tegra seemed off to a decent start in 2009, but with a minimum of actual hardware actually on shelves for the holidays, we’re supposed to look to 2010 now for Tegra’s big break — according to NVIDIA, anyway. NVIDIA plans to unveil its next-gen Tegra 2 chipset at CES in January, which is rumored to be around twice as powerful as the original, and we’re supposed to be seeing a bunch of “interesting form factors” along side (like that Tegra tablet pictured above, for instance). We’re told to expect tablet PCs, smartbooks, netbooks and MIDs running Tegra in the first half of next year, but the real traction is supposed to take place with the first smartphone entries in the second half of 2010. It sounds like a long time to wait.

NVIDIA promises Tegra 2 chipset and third party hardware at CES originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 16 Dec 2009 11:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Nov 16

Hardware battle looms for theoretical successors to Nintendo DS and Sony PSP

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Hardware battle looms for theoretical successors to Nintendo DS and Sony PSP

It’s a sorry state of affairs when a media player like the Zune HD has more polygon-pushing power than the latest handheld videogame consoles on the market. If rumors are to be believed, Nintendo and Sony will set things straight with their next-generation portables — at least for a little while. We’ve already heard that the successor to Nintendo’s DS will have Tegra power, but the current speculation is that it’ll be a Tegra 2 chip, promising twice the power of the current iteration. On the Sony side the PSP2 is apparently shaping up to use an offspring of the IMG PowerVR graphics found on the iPhone, said to be theoretically superior to what the DS2 will be able to achieve but costing more, being more difficult to develop for, and not shipping until sometime in 2011 — potentially a year later than the DS2. In other words it’s standard operating procedure if these rumors are to be believed, but even if there aren’t any surprises in this showdown we’ll be there in the front row with popcorn to watch the bloodshed.

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Hardware battle looms for theoretical successors to Nintendo DS and Sony PSP originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 16 Nov 2009 09:58:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Nov 06

NVIDIA Tegra 2 to double performance, arrive in 2010?

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Word on the grapevine is that NVIDIA is preparing to mount a fresh assault on the mobile front, with a successor to Tegra that moves to a dual-core ARM9 CPU and adds improved graphical performance to produce what’s said to be twice the power. This sort of aggressive roadmap meshes with earlier rumors of a Tegra platform powering the next generation of Nintendo’s DS, and promises an equally tantalizing upgrade to the Zune HD specs. Keep in mind that the info comes from those highly anonymous and entirely unaccountable “industry sources,” but given the time that will pass between the availability of the first Tegra chipset and the suggested 2010 release of Tegra 2, it makes sense to believe that the engineers have had sufficient opportunity to optimize and energize their platform. It’s not like NVIDIA has been wasting its time setting up anti-Intel websites and putting together snarky cartoons about its competition, right?

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NVIDIA Tegra 2 to double performance, arrive in 2010? originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 06 Nov 2009 04:18:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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