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NVIDIA Downgraded by Analyst Group Sterne Agee

Despite all the marketing that NVIDIA has done for its products, it looks like at least one analyst group thinks that the company doesn't quite cut it. Up until a few days ago, NVIDIA was one of the companies on Sterne Agee's “Catalyst Driven Idea List”. This is no longer the case, the 111-y...

11 February 2012
05:44 GMT

Notion Ink Explains Why It Chose OMAP Over NVIDIA's Tegra for Adam II

If anyone was wondering how it is that Notion Ink's Adam Tablet II doesn't use an NVIDIA Tegra platform, the company actually took some time to clarify that. It wasn't too long ago that the Adam II tablet from Notion Ink was officially introduced to the general public in all its glory. What immediat...

30 January 2012
10:41 GMT

NVIDIA Wants Tegra Inside Cars, Foxconn Helps

Anyone thinking that NVIDIA was going to settle for dominance on the Android tablet would be wrong, as the company is setting up, or has already set up, an alliance for the spreading of Tegra in a certain other field.Digitimes just made another on of its reports, one of those that may or may not be true.Considering ...

19 December 2011
11:05 GMT

NVIDIA CEO Confirms Mobile Roadmap: Kal-El, Wayne, Logan and Stark

Chip maker Nvidia has started to gain market share on the mobile market, and it seems that the company wants an even bigger chunk of it, and that it might also have the means to get it. Previous rumors suggested that the company was working on new mobile application processors to address the various segments of th...

21 October 2011
15:41 GMT

NVIDIA CEO Admits Challenging Intel Was a Bad Idea

NVIDIA's founder and president answered some questions and ended up revealing quite a few things, and this extends to more than confirming its Tegra roadmap. The smartphone and tablet market is a segment that NVIDIA really wants to have a big stake in, since it was denied x86 chipset development. The Tegra 2 ...

21 October 2011
03:26 GMT

NVIDIA Is Just as Eager to See Windows 8 Out as AMD

With Windows 8 in the pipeline, hardware makers have to make sure they are ready for the new OS, and it seems that NVIDIA is quite aware of this fact, given its new press release. As far as software goes, NVIDIA, much like AMD, usually delivers a new graphics driver every month. Now that the release of Microso...

14 September 2011
04:26 GMT

Sprinkle Review

Mobile games are becoming more and more popular these days, with global phenomenons like Angry Birds managing to rake in more money and reach more people than many blockbuster, triple-A console or PC games. Sprinkle is the newest title that’s been sweeping the iOS and Android app stores these days, with ...

13 September 2011
06:20 GMT

Nvidia to Offer Support for Windows Phone in Future Tegra Chips

Nvidia's mobile chips are already packed inside a series of devices running under Google's Android operating system, yet it seems that they will emerge in Windows Phone handsets as well in the foreseeable future. To be more precise, Nvidia is expected to add support for the Windows Phone platform start...

12 September 2011
16:51 GMT

Nvidia's Tegra 'Grey' SoC to Pack 3G/4G Capabilities

Nvidia is betting big on the mobile space. The company has launched two generations of mobile chips until now, and the second generation is already one of the most popular SoCs inside dual-core tablet PCs and even smartphones. The company seems convinced that the mobile space will evolve fast in the coming year...

12 September 2011
06:02 GMT

New Nvidia Roadmap Unveils Kal-El+ and Grey Tegra Chips

Nvidia has recently held a presentation during the Citi Technology Conference about its future plans regarding the mobile space, where it unveiled a new roadmap that introduced two new Tegra chips called Kal-El+ and Grey.The presentation was held by the company's CEO, Jen-Hsun Huang, and one of the most importan...

8 September 2011
10:21 GMT

S2 Tablet Is Named Sony Table P, Comes in September

Sony's S1 and S2 tablets have been the subject of rumors, reports and even official word on the company's part, but the latest leak suggests that the latter slate might end up being named differently once shipments begin. The tablet industry continues to be a fairly uncertain space, though not in terms ...

27 August 2011
06:52 GMT

Nvidia’s Tablet Gaming Future is Bright, Bigger than Consoles or PC

During Gamescom 2011, Nvidia held its own presentation, as the graphics company wanted to highlight where it believes gaming is going and how it plans to help get it there, with new technology and better developer support. Nvidia has been relentless in its PC gaming push, launching new graphics cards, partnering u...

19 August 2011
06:57 GMT

Tegra Does Much to Boost NVIDIA Revenues in Q2

As one would have likely expected, the Tegra line of ARM-based mobile SOCs (system-on chip devices) can be attributed much of the credit for the way NVIDIA saw revenue growth.Those keeping track of such things will likely have already learned of NVIDIA's favorable financial performance during the second FY2012 ...

12 August 2011
07:57 GMT

NVIDIA Outlines Project Maximus and Virtual Graphics

The briefing that NVIDIA reportedly held at SIGGRAPH 2011 had the company outlining certain plans that mean to change the professional market's approach to graphics, complete with endorsement on the part of Autodesk and Adobe.Even in the midst of Tegra preparations and driver conflicts with Apple's Lion op...

9 August 2011
03:51 GMT

NVIDIA Kal-El Tegra 3 Arrives in October

AMD may have taken a long time to finally deliver its Fusion technology, but it looks like NVIDIA is going through a phase of product delays as well, in this case involving the next-generation Tegra SoC. Intel's long dispute with NVIDIA over whether or not the latter was allowed to keep making chipsets for its ...

3 August 2011
02:40 GMT

ASUS Eee Pad Transformer 2 Comes in October

There is no real way to know for certain, such is the way of rumors and reports, but it has been implied that ASUS has decided when to deliver the new Eee Pad Transformer tablet.The ASUS Eee Pad Transformer, one could say, is one of the products that managed to catch the attention of the market through good reviews ...

2 August 2011
06:04 GMT

NVIDIA Completes Acquisition of Icera, Tegra Devices Rejoice

It appears that NVIDIA has already completed the procedure through which Icera, a maker of baseband processors, became its subsidiary, allowing it to now sell two of the main processors used in tablets and smartphones.Some time ago, NVIDIA announced that it had reached an agreement with Icera, through which the make...

14 June 2011
05:51 GMT

Nvidia's Kal-El Quad-Core Mobile CPU in New Demo, Glowball

Nvidia, the popular graphics chip maker, announced several months ago the launch of a new application processor aimed at mobile devices, packing quad-cores and called Kal-El.This next-generation Tegra chip was the very first quad-core CPU announced for mobiles, and a demonstration of its capabilities is available in...

30 May 2011
02:44 GMT

NVIDIA Won't Start Merging Tegra and Icera Chips

The news about NVIDIA acquiring a maker of baseband processors was quick in sparking rumors about a more complete mobile SoC, but it looks like nothing of the sort is going to happen, at least at first.Those keeping track of things on the IT market will know about how companies get bought off by bigger ones more or ...

14 May 2011
04:24 GMT

Investors Lose Confidence in NVIDIA

It seems that the occurrences involving flames and NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 590 dual-chip card aren't the only thing causing controversy about the company right now, as reports say that investors have extra reasons to be skeptical.Some may have heard of how certain tests got landed with exploding NVIDIA GeForc...

1 April 2011
08:26 GMT

Smartbooks Not Dead, Sony Wants One with Chrome

It would look like a certain device type that had all but failed to even start selling before it was drowned by tablets hasn't yet been totally given up on, as Sony actually seems to want to make one.The smartbook is one of those device concepts that didn't even have the opportunity to start selling before...

24 March 2011
04:30 GMT

NVIDIA Tegra Powers New Lamborghini Aventador LP700-4 Dashboard

As some you might remember, we've talked quite a bit about the involvement of NVIDIA's Tegra platform in the automotive industry with Mr. Mike Rayfield, General Manager of the Tegra business, back at MWC 2011, and now, it seems that some of those plans are already being set in motion.And that's because...

11 March 2011
03:57 GMT

Softpedia Exclusive Interview: Michael Rayfield, NVIDIA Tegra General Manager

During our visit at this year's Mobile World Congress, we've had the chance of getting a few moments out of the busy schedule of Mr. Michael Rayfield, the General Manager of NVIDIA's Tegra-oriented Mobile Business Unit.Since the interview was carried out just after the official unveiling of the Kal-El ...

25 February 2011
10:19 GMT

NVIDIA Wants to Port PC Games to Tegra Android Tablets

NVIDIA may have left the PC Gaming Alliance, but its days of collaborating with developers of games are definitely not over, especially if reports about it wanting to port PC games to Tegra devices proves true.Not long ago, it was noticed that, in addition to Microsoft, NVIDIA had left the PC Gaming Alliance.This, o...

24 February 2011
10:35 GMT

Hands-On at MWC 2011 with NVIDIA Kal-El Tablet

Some time ago, NVIDIA posted some info on the official blog about the plans for the successors to its ARM platform and it seems that its MWC 2011 exhibition had a tablet running a next-generation Kal-El chip. While it has been taken out of the x86 chipset business, NVIDIA has nothing stopping it from building platf...

17 February 2011
02:39 GMT

NVIDIA Stark Comes After Kal-El, 100 Times Faster than Tegra 2

As end-users know, NVIDIA has seen a fairly big success with its Tegra 2 platform, particularly among tablets, and while its next-generation quad-core product will greatly outclass it, it seems to be nothing compared to what will come in 2014.End-users will no doubt have already heard about the many tablets on show ...

16 February 2011
08:21 GMT

Quad-Core ARM-Based NVIDIA Super Chip Is Called Kal-El

Since NVIDIA's Tegra 2 platform seems to be booming now that tablets are getting launched left and right, the company decided to get serious with its next ARM platform, using MWC 2011 as an opportunity to speak on project Kal-El. No doubt end-users will have heard about the many tablets on show at the Mobile Wo...

16 February 2011
05:43 GMT

Quad-Core NVIDIA Tegra 3 Gearing Up for MWC Launch

Without a doubt, NVIDIA's Tegra 2 mobile platform has virtually skyrocketed at CES 2011, the GPU manufacturer's mobile platform finding its way to a very large number of devices (smartphones and especially tablets), but it seems that the company's already seriously pondering on the release of the next-...

20 January 2011
02:40 GMT

NVIDIA Tegra and Tegra 2 Taking Over the Tablet Market

While we've had some doubt regarding NVIDIA's statements referring to the future of their Tegra platform, various market sources seem to point out the fact that the GPU and chip manufacturer's mobile platform will actually become a whole lot more popular in the near future, especially as far as Android...

20 December 2010
02:21 GMT

NVIDIA Tegra 2 is 2.5 Times Faster than Apple A4 Chip, Rumor Has It

Back when the iPad was first announced, many people wondered why Apple had decided to go for an in-house, Cortex A8-based chip instead of opting for NVIDIA's Tegra or Tegra 2 platforms, and if the latest rumors prove to be true, then Apple might have actually made a mistake, given the fact that Tegra 2 is appare...

14 December 2010
08:27 GMT

NVIDIA Whitepaper Promotes Multi-Core Tegra Chips

It seems that NVIDIA is quite set on making sure it secures a fair chunk of the mobile market, so it will focus much of its resources on the Tegra family of SoC, even multi-core models according to a recent document.Though Intel may have managed to drive NVIDIA out of the x86 chipset business, the Santa Clara, Calif...

3 December 2010
08:36 GMT

NVIDIA Almost Completely Out of the Chipset Business

It seems that the long-lasting litigation with Intel over rights to make chipsets has finally led to NVIDIA revising its plans, to the point where it has now clearly stated that it is backing out of this market.NVIDIA made chipsets for processors from AMD and Intel for some years before Intel files charges stating t...

13 November 2010
03:51 GMT

NVIDIA Won't Have Globalfoundries Make Tegra, Sticks to TSMC

Since the rumor mill decided at one point or another to spawn reports that NVIDIA would be contracting Globalfoundries to manufacture its Tegra products, the GPU maker's CEO saw fit to dismiss those claims by saying that NVIDIA plans to maintain its strong partnership with TSMC.As consumers know, the Tegra SoC ...

6 October 2010
09:26 GMT

NVIDIA Also Plans to Release New Tegra SoCs Every Year

Unveiling a new GPU roadmap is not all NVIDIA did at its GTC event, the company having also expressed its intention to invest special focus into the Tegra line of products, to the point where a new SoC is expected to debut every year.Though the Fermi architecture is definitely getting most of the attention as far as...

22 September 2010
03:16 GMT

Toshiba Smartpad Named Folio 100, Heads to IFA

Apparently, the recently unveiled Toshiba SmartPad tablet has been given a, more or less, official name, Folio 100 that is, and even the specifications of the electronic seem to have found their way to the Internet, revealing a multimedia-oriented slate with Flash support.The so-called Toshiba SmartPad was unveiled ...

30 August 2010
04:03 GMT

PCs Will Soon Seem Outdated, NVIDIA Says

Recently, NVIDIA has been working towards restoring its hold over the PC market by offering the GeForce GTX 400 series of graphics cards. Also, on the mobile consumer electronics market, it only managed to power the Microsoft Zune HD player and the Microsoft Kin phone. As such, one may think that the company plans t...

19 July 2010
05:06 GMT

Intel Says NVIDIA CEO Should Get His Math Checked

Bashing each other's products, and each other directly, has become something of a tradition in the drawn-out dispute between NVIDIA and Intel Corp. Whenever the latter unveils some new mobile chip or chipset, the former immediately comes out and says how it is inferior or imperfect compared to its own products. ...

27 May 2010
09:42 GMT

Aigo Surprises with 7-Inch NVIDIA Tegra 2 Tablet

The iPad is ravaging tablet sales and HP's slate is supposedly canceled, which means that the slate market itself has become quite a bit smaller. However, seeing how there are many companies of all sizes that hope to be propelled by this newborn market, it will only be a matter of time before the segment swarms ...

3 May 2010
04:36 GMT

MSI Readies Android and Windows Tablets for Q3

With the iPad in full swing and many companies, including ASUS, HP and Dell, planning on joining the tablet war sooner or later, Micro-Star International (MSI) is also putting special effort into its slate-development plans, hoping to make a strong impression when it eventually unleashes its products. Unfortunately, ...

30 April 2010
03:57 GMT

7-Inch Dell Looking Glass Tablet Comes in November

With the iPad stirring both love and hate wherever it goes, depending on how much the various gazers care about Adobe Flash playback, it was only a matter of time before PC suppliers got serious and started putting real effort into the development of their own media slates. Dell, as one of the top five, is not about ...

22 April 2010
08:32 GMT

Toshiba's Tablets Are Based on NVIDIA Tegra

Even though there are just two or three media slates currently selling, one of them being the now-infamous iPad, the media-slate market itself has already gained such a high level of attention that most suppliers of PCs or mobile devices have at least considered, if not already decided upon, entering the race. HP is ...

19 April 2010
09:55 GMT

Tablets Based on NVIDIA's Tegra 2 Get Delayed

With all the delays that NVIDIA and/or its products have been the protagonist of, it would not be very surprising to hear of more launch dates being postponed by/because of the Santa Clara-based GPU maker. As such, learning that alleged issues with the Tegra 2 mobile platform may delay the launch of tablets under dev...

2 April 2010
05:14 GMT

Mobinova's Beam Tegra Smartbook Runs Android

There has been a lot of talk of the ARM architecture and NVIDIA's Tegra platform over the past few months, mostly because of the rise of smartbooks and, especially, tablets. One of the devices that have been in development for a longer time than most others is Mobinova's Beam smartbook. Despite the long per...

24 March 2010
04:44 GMT

NVIDIA Is Optimistic About Tegra's Future

Last year, things seemed to be getting tougher for NVIDIA as Intel sued it over chipset manufacturing and AMD came out with DirectX 11 cards before its rival was ready to bring its own. Even the first-generation Tegra hadn't exactly performed as well as NVIDIA had hoped, having scored a number of design wins bu...

20 March 2010
05:08 GMT

NVIDIA Merges Ion and Tegra Teams

Even though consumers are so focused on the upcoming launch of Fermi that nothing else seems to matter, as far as NVIDIA is concerned at least, one should not forget that the Santa Clara GPU maker did, in fact, bring forth a number of advancements on the mobile front. The lack of support for DirectX 11 aside, n...

12 March 2010
06:39 GMT

NVIDIA Wants Tegra to Be Inside Everything

When thinking of NVIDIA, the first thing that might pop into the minds of most end-users is the fact that the hardware maker still hasn't launched its DirectX 11 cards and that it is rather secretive about them. However, one should not forget the progress that the Santa Clara GPU maker has made in other areas, e...

11 March 2010
10:26 GMT

Microsoft and NVIDIA Collaborate on Future Tegra Device

The CeBIT 2010 show in Hannover, Germany will certainly be a place of great interest, considering the high number of rumors that have been circulating over the Internet, recently. One such example concerns NVIDIA and Microsoft, which are said to be collaborating on a new device that will reportedly be announced at th...

2 February 2010
06:55 GMT

NVIDIA Tegra 2 To Dominate the Tablet Market

NVIDIA hasn't exactly been in the most fortunate or favorable of positions over the past few months, obviously because Advanced Micro Devices has been having the large field of DirectX 11 graphics all to itself. Still, the company seems to be ready to score in another area through its development of the Tegra 2...

30 January 2010
05:23 GMT

NVIDIA Tegra Inside Every Audi 2010 Vehicle

If you’ve been keeping an eye on NVIDIA, the company that told you how "it's meant to be played," you have probably noticed that the Santa Clara, California-based chip maker is looking to expand its product portfolio with new solutions, targeting new markets. The launch of its next-generation Tegra processors c...

8 January 2010
05:05 GMT

NVIDIA Formally Intros Tegra 2

Santa Clara, California-based NVIDIA, announced today the launch of its next-generation Tegra processor, designed to accomodate the performance requirements of the mobile segment. Building on the company's previous generation of processors, the new Tegra processor is expected to be featured in a number of new de...

7 January 2010
13:31 GMT


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