Tegra Smartphones Confirmed Again for This Year

Nvidia's Tegra computer-on-a-chip has already been reported to come to the market in a series of smartphones during the ongoing year, and now Jen-Hsun Huang, CEO of Nvidia, confirms this again. Although no specific details have been given, Nvidia's CEO states loud and clear in an interview with Mobinaute that the Tegra-based smartphones are coming to the market and that they will land before the end of the ongoing year.

“Today, we have already won more than fifteen designs, including the Zune HD but also other media players, smartphones and SmartBooks, which will hit the market by the end of the year,” Jen-Hsun Huang says. At the same time, he also explains that the company needed about three years to develop the chip, and that manufacturers have also been working for about a year now for the integration of the silicon into their products.

Moreover, it seems that the company intends to accelerate the process of getting Tegra-based parts on the market, although, according to its CEO, things are going according to plan. The platform, as many of you might already know, packs inside an ARM processor, given the fact that it is fifteen times more power efficient than other solutions on the market, like Intel's Atom, and provides compatibility with Windows CE, Windows Mobile, Android and Linux.

In addition, Nvidia also says that the Tegra platform will prove to be better than Qualcomm's Snapdragon chip, which will be launched along with Toshiba's TG01, in terms of HD performance, especially when it comes to surfing through Internet pages that include such content. Unfortunately, no details on what handsets will include the chip have been unveiled, although some of the latest rumors on the Web point towards Samsung and Motorola among the first makers that will adopt Tegra.

You can read the interview with Jen-Hsun Huang, CEO of Nvidia, here (French).