14 DAY TRIAL // The quick sales of the Advent Vega and the announcing of many other Tegra 2-based tablets seems to have painted a fairly promising future for the platform, and a new report suggests that the SoC will actually hold quite a large share of the ARM-based tablet market.
A recent report stated that NVIDIA is not dealing with smaller tablet makers and has set 100,000 as the minimum amount of Tegra 2 units per order.
As such, only high-profile companies like LG and Motorola will afford to seriously get involved in the Tegra 2 tablet segment.
This might make some wonder if NVIDIA will manage to sell the millions it needs to make the platform profitable.
Coming to squelch those rumors, or at least part of them, is a new report made by Digitimes, which seems to predict quite a bright future ahead of the Tegra 2 system-on-chip.
All in all, Tegra 2 is actually expected to account for half of ARM-based tablet PC sales next year (2011).
Apparently, Tegra 2 is already quite popular among makers of tablets because of its support for Adobe Flash and 3D games.
As such, companies like Acer, ASUS, Toshiba and Samsung are all set to release slates based on the processor, as are regional vendors from Germany, the UK and China.
The sources cited by Digitimes further say that NVIDIA is offering the Tegra 2 at something of a discount, so as to accelerate market momentum.
For those that want something closer to what could be seen as specifics, even China-based white-box manufacturers have chosen Tegra 2 for their tablet personal computers.
Basically, the consumer base is growing out of its preference for Intel-Windows platforms and has begun to be much more open to other technologies. No doubt the strong iPad sales were a prime factor in this change in outlook.