“Nvidia Chief Executive Jen-Hsun Huang said the Tegra chip is powerful enough to allow a tablet user to play 140 hours of music without a charge, or 16 hours of high-definition movies,” Gallagher and Bartash report. “‘The processor is nothing short of a miracle for us,’ Huang said at the Consumer Electronics Show. The Tegra has a dual-core CPU and eight independent processors, supplying 10 times the performance of the average smartphone, according to Nvidia.”
MacDailyNews Take: Their “miracle” chip faces the prospect of becoming mundane in a matter of weeks.
Gallagher and Bartash report, “The touch-screen tablet Huang used in his demonstration was slightly larger than a Kindle e-book reader, but smaller and thinner than a netbook. At CES, Dell Inc. showed off its own tablet, but the device was much smaller. It had a 5-inch screen, slightly larger than that of an Apple Inc. iPhone.”
MacDailyNews Note: See Gizmodo’s “A Quickie Look At Dell’s Slate, In a Dark Corridor” for more info.
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Dell. Puleeze. And, thanks CES dorks, but “tablet” computers will take off when Steve Jobs taps the launch button on his.
Is it just me or does this whole Apple/Steve Jobs/Tablet thing remind you of Willy Wonka? The secretive factory, what will Wonka/Jobs come up with next, the factory will open its gates at the end of January to show you what’s inside. All we need now is a golden ticket (ie invitation to attend the announcement demo).
PhxDoc,
Jobs has been operating as Willie Wonka for at least the last 26 years.
Don’t know why MDN is bashing on Nvidia…
I can just see the jokes now.
“How many engineers does it take to design a computer chip…”
Tablet computers will take off when they start putting Microsoft Windows on them.
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Johnny,
PA Semi.
Try to keep up, okay?
@ Zune Tang
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You mean, of course, in the sense that pigs might fly, eh?
“small computer with the power of a laptop but the mobility and energy efficiency of a wireless phone”
And with windows or Symbian on it, it will have the usability of a brick…..
“CES dorks”……. So true.
@Zune Tung
Tee hee, who let the Tang in?
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Off with thee, foul beast!
I can’t see how the Apple tablet will not be a disappointment to some. The sights have been set very high.
hahahahaha!
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“taps the launch button”
that one needs a trademark.
Yeah, the Nvidia CEO loves Apple. His family has only Apple gear, as was reported on MDN a couple months ago.
I like a 5″ tablet. It’s double the screensize of the iPhone. That’s plenty big, people just don’t know it yet.
Apple owns PA semi yes, but that doesn’t mean they will limit themselves to those chips and it doesn’t make it a bad chip. Could still have a use, depending on it’s roadmap of future development.
Apple still uses Nvidia chips. The limitation won’t be the chip, it will be the hardware and software put around it. Pre the intel move, very few believed it would happen.
At the end of the day apple will choose the best chip for the job, and they won’t scoff and ignore it unless they have a much better option with a great roadmap.
The big question for me (and for a lot of people) is battery life. If Apple can deliver close to the battery life claimed in the above article, the rest is gravy.
Bring um’ on. I love the competition! Apple’s device will be awesome, but maybe a bucket full of tablets will help keep the price down.
When the iPhone first came out it was way overpriced, because Apple knew it was the only one out there. They eventually back-tracked and started price cuts and subsidizing. People will only pay so much and competition helps keep them a bit more honest.
If Apple wants “pc” users to switch, price WILL make a difference with them….mac users just won’t buy any until Apple makes it more affordable. If they’re looking to get $1000.00 for their tablet, a lot of folks will sit on their wallets, including me.
I started hating Nvidia when they started screwing up with Apple.
I’ll never forget the MacBook Incident, you fags
And, thanks CES dorks, but “tablet” computers will take off when Steve Jobs taps the launch button on his.
Spot on.
Nvidia makes good chips. If they have a lead here, hopefully Apple will be using their work. These days chips are like PC boards used to be, and companies build entire systems on a chip that combine several 3rd party designs. This makes their products lighter and lower powered than separate chips would be.
Isn’t the Tegra in the latest Zune?
And how does this chip provide so many hours of music & video? Seems to me that the length of play is a function of the battery.
Blathering asshat.
I thought Ballmer didn’t like tablets.
“the Tegra chip is powerful enough to allow a tablet user to play 140 hours of music without a charge”
WOW!!! 140 hours of music playback without a charge! It’s a miracle! No electricity needed! Amazing!
Y’see because USUALLY you need, say, a single charge, at least.
That IS a breakthrough!
A tablet PC isn’t the same without Windows running on them. CRAPPLE start your photocopiers!
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