14 DAY TRIAL // At MWC 2014, NVIDIA has a booth just like everyone else, and it is there that we saw some prototype tablets and a smartphone based on the Tegra K1 chip. So I suppose I have an excuse for thinking the first ever Tegra K1-based product would be such a device.
It turns out I might have to revise my expectations, because Lenovo is working on a Tegra K1-based Smart TV that could make it to market before everything else.
Measuring 50 inches in diagonal and bearing no name for now, the display is based on the K1 SoC, according to Weibo.
Lenovo hasn't confirmed it though, but it has given a description where it says that the TV is based on the fastest 200-core CPU+GPU. And since K1 has 192 GPU Kepler CUDA cores and 8 ARM cores (four big ones and four small ones, for when only basic operations are done, presumably), it's a fair guess.
The launch date is said to be “just around the corner,” so maybe we only have a week or two to wait. Or a month. Either way, it's more than we've heard from the tablet or phone markets so far. Quite bewildering really, all things considered.