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Nvidia today unveiled its Tegra 250 or simply the Tegra 2 chip in India. Tegra 2 as we know is the next-generation Tegra mobile platform. The new chips are based on dual core ARM Cortex A9 and runs at a clock speed of 1GHz.
The new Tegra boasts tremendous battery life which is possible with [...]

 
Courier is an interesting take on how Microsoft wants a journal or a diary want to be. Now couple more images and details have leaked of Microsoft’s supposed iPad competitor. The Courier is said to function as a digital journal and will be highly portable with an inch of thickness and smaller than a 5×7 [...]

 
More info has trickled out regarding the first ever Smartpad supposed to come out from an Indian company. Notion Ink has confirmed to The Hindu that their maiden Smartpad will be named as Adam, presumably to signify it as the first Smartpad powered by Tegra processor. Notion Ink also re-confirmed the launch, which will be [...]

Except its name, Asus Eee Pad was completely shrouded in mystery when we heard of it couple of weeks back. Now, Netbooknews has heard from its sources that Nvidia Tegra will power the Taiwanese’ tablet offering. It’s not clear which Tegra platform will find the place but since it is rumored to go on sale [...]

 
Every year, CES follows a certain trend where we see same type of products being showcased in abundance. This upcoming CES looks no different with internet tablets expected to rule the roost. One of the promising tablets is anticipated from Hyderabad-based Notion Ink who will unveil its Tegra-powered “Smartpad” running Android OS. Specifications look rock [...]

 
Tegra SoC didn’t manage to capitalize as Nvidia would’ve hoped but this isn’t letting the chip maker to roll out its successor. Nvidia’s executive has confirmed about Tegra 2 being unveiled at the CES 2010 along with showcase of different devices like smartbooks, smartphones, MIDs etc.
Nvidia hasn’t divulged the expected feature set of the [...]

 
It seems the e-book reader market is following the same trend as the netbook market. Every company wants a piece of the market and though each product is more or less the same, they’ll try to offer some distinguishing factor over the other one. We’ve already seen a number of companies selling their e-book readers [...]

 
There were murmurs of a Tegra phone being worked on and it looks Samsung will be the first company to pull it out. A Samsung rep confirmed to Laptopmag that they are developing a Tegra powered phone which will allow users to play graphic intensive games and play HD content effortlessly when attached to a [...]

 
New rumor has surfaced claiming Nvidia’s Tegra-enabled netbook will be branded as Firefly and will be releasing in September. The rumor comes through ODMs who were kind enough to share the info with SemiAccurate. Apparently, Tegra powered Firefly will come with Windows CE OS and boatload of apps enough to give a long battery life [...]

 
Nvidia showed Tegra-based Mobinnova Elan netbook at the Computex and now they have confirmed that it will be released in this year itself. According to the spokesperson, the Tegra model will be launched in time during Black Friday in US for around $200. Though the specs are not yet finalized, the netbook will be based [...]

 
It was rumored for a long time and even semi-confirmed by a Nvidia employee recently but it was not acknowledged by Microsoft until now. In an official Zune Insider podcast, Matt Akers, the show host and the product team member confirmed that Nvidia’s Tegra is indeed the multimedia brain behind Zune HD who thinks it [...]

 
We have been hearing Tegra powering Zune HD before but nothing was confirmed – until now. PC Perspective’s reporter got hold off an Nvidia employee who claimed that Zune HD indeed houses Nvidia’s wonder SoC. Of course, it’s nothing close to official but at least this claim holds more weight than the wild rumors and [...]

 
This proof of concept by Nvidia is another evidence that they want to barge into Intel’s territory. Yes, Nvidia has Ion to take care of netbooks but when Tegra SoCs can work on netbooks, you know, the Tegra integration possibilities are endless.
At the CTIA, Nvidia replaced an Atom chip with its Tegra processor in [...]

 
It was least expected but SoC makers have garnered the much needed attention at this year’s MWC that could shape the future of phones and other devices. We have already seen ZiiLabs showing their ZMS-05 SoC running Android and doing HD playback at 720p. Now Nvidia has announced their Tegra 600 Series SoC that claims [...]

 
nVidia had announced the Tegra processors for MIDs. And if you thought that they were boasting unnessarily then you may not believe that it can play Quake III at 35fps, HD Video playback, low consumption of power. See it to believe it.