“The executive told Hexus that an unnamed company is developing a ‘media pad’ that would have 3G and a touchscreen between 7 and 13 inches in size that would be based on the chip,” Electronista reports. “No indication was given as to the feature set other than the entertainment focus.”
Full article, with video, here.
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Every computer and consumer electronics company on the planet is rumored to be making one of these things.
I heard a rumor that I’m waiting in line to buy an Apple tablet, or iSlate, or MacBook touch, but then again I heard a rumor that I wasn’t.
Why would Apple develop a own chip, if Tegra fit their needs? The first generation Tegra Chip is based on an ARM 11 Core, which Apple just dropped in the iPHone GS for the faster Cortex A8. So a bigger device with less CPU performance is not very probably. Even if the Nvidia chip offer more GPU power, they built-in the wrong grafik engine. All iPHone OS Apps are optimised for the PowerVR Grafic Core, so don´t expect Apple will use something other.
And for all people who still believe in a full Mac OS X device, the grafik engine might be OK but the CPU performance would completly fail.
So Nvidia has absolutly nothing to offer for a possible Mac tablet.
Even if the Tegra chip DID fit Apple’s needs, Apple will have something that nobody else will have.
I still believe in the mobile space Apple will build its own SoCs – as they have said they would. They would be able to choose to include whatever they wanted and possibly even build in custom processors written specifically to optimize OS X. Those processors could even make their way into Macs as well, giving Apple hardware a performance boost over similar PC systems when running OS X.
If it is apple apparently nvidia makes at least one chipset that isn’t flawed