Nvidia Making Millions From Sale of Google's Nexus 7 Tablet
Currently Nvidia charges around $25 for each Tegra 3 chip. That means the company will earn revenues close to $75 million USD just thorough its Nexus 7 orders alone in the second half of 2012. Profits from the orders are expected to reach around $10 million USD in that time period.
Of course, these numbers could change once Apple dishes out its own 7-inch tablet, the rumored iPad Mini. Consumers holding out for the smaller iPad may likely skip over Google's Android offering later on this year, and may even ignore Amazon's second-generation Kindle Fire given that Amazon's Instant Video service can be streamed to the iPad platform. That said, both Google and Amazon will need to find ways in keeping the focus on their products prior to Apple's supposed launch by the end of September.
Nvidia's Nexus 7 orders and other products using its quad-core Tegra 3 SoC are reportedly helping cover the company's weakening performance in the graphics chip business. Currently Nvidia is quickly recovering its losses in the ARM-based processor market thanks to Google's pricing strategy with the Nexus 7. As of this writing, the 8 GB version costs $199.99 USD whereas the 16 GB model costs $249.99 USD. Google may slash the prices even more once the iPad Mini hits the market.
Just recently slides revealed the Xperia Sony Tablet, what's believed to be the successor to the Sony Tablet S. It will reportedly come packed with Nvidia's Tegra 3 SoC, Android 4.0 "or later," 16 GB, 32 GB, or 64 GB of internal storage, 3G connectivity, and a larger 6000mAh battery good for 10 hours of Wi-Fi browsing. It will also feature an 8.8-mm thick splash-proof aluminum shell, 42-percent thinner than the current Tablet S.
The new Xperia tablet will also feature an optional cover that serves as a super-thin keyboard, echoing Microsoft's own efforts with its Windows 8-based Surface tablet. However Sony's version wraps around the entire tablet and folds at the back, serving as a kickstand. The cover is expected to sell for $99.99 USD whereas the tablet itself is expected to sell for $449.99 (16 GB), $549.99 (32 GB) and $649.99 (64 GB).
The Xperia Sony Tablet is slated to arrive in 3Q12 although Sony hasn't officially announced the device as of this writing.
Again nvidia is promoting this "console quality gaming" bullshit, and paying off developers for exclusive stuff.
OMG 12 COAR GPU!!! ..... yet it's not a match for the 4 core mali400mp and the 2 core SGX543.
Not sure why you got thumbed down so bad, it's actually correct AFAIK
http://www.anandtech.com/show/5688/apple-ipad-2012-review/15
Agreed. People should really do some research and know the facts before expressing an opinion on matters that they clearly know little about. What gets me though is at least 19 people voted you down but not one of them could be bothered to say why your wrong, lol.
If you think Tegra 3 is slow compared to Snapdragon you should look at the performance difference between Tegra and at PowerVR's British designed latest and greatest mobile graphics chip SGX 545MP4. Google must know something that we don't and believe Nvidia are going to drastically catch up with the competition in the near future because otherwise I do wonder why Google continues buying Tegra based chips when clearly there's much better performing chips around.
On the more positive side Tegra does seem offer much better image quality then SGX but the games that can show off Tegra are few and far between because there just isn't enough Tegra based devices out their to justify coding software for a single chip.
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its all in the way they worded it, come in factually and go point by point.
discrediting a chip by saying its all marketing hype, while the tegra 3 is a chip i believe anyone can use, and according to that 1 page of benchmarks, is the best non apple chip available, all that while being able to push a slightly higher than 720p resolution close to if not over 30fps. that is annoying.
than console quality, they are getting close, weather you want to believe it or not, they are getting very close to a console quality, and this is coming from a GPU MAKER, someones whos bread and butter comes from making crap pretty.
and than that caps lock little bit... yea... i know what it takes to get down vote, but wow, he may be right but wording it like that makes no one want to pay attention to you. really the only time i pull that crap is when its a gaming article and people want a tech demo instead of a game.
Among others: Reacting to keywords rather than content.
But I'm pretty sure nvidia chip is either on par with powerVR or better. (In my mind it's better, we are talking about a company which has been one of the main players in pc to mobile device gfx chip maker.)
And the answer is in this article, have a nice read
http://www.pcworld.com/article/251947/new_ipad_vs_android_tablets_is_it_game_over.html
I do believe that AMD is currently strongest in the mobile segment. You are referring to ultramobile. Laptop vs smartphone/tablet. They are not doing so bad with laptops right now. Later this year they are supposed to release something for windows 8 tablets. Should be releasing very soon... I hope. Codename Hondo I believe. Nothing for smartphones though.
There are only two questions of importance when it comes to the SoC for a mobile device. Will it run 30+ FPS at its built in screen's native resolution under the most extreme load? How much power does it use?
Bragging rights that your Samsung's GPU is faster than my nexus's GPU? Can you actually see the difference? No, then who cares?
nVidia's Tegra 3 is cheap with a power saving design. Both of which are more important for Google in the Nexus 7 than overall performance. The Tegra 3 performs good enough to make it a snappy tablet (according to reviews I've read). Also it's an ASUS tablet and they bought the chip. Google just worked on the design.