Advances on Nvidia Tegra 3

Nvidia Tegra 3, a new platform for smartphones, Tablet and smartbooks, is one of the ingredients with which the American chipmaker expects to end the crisis. Soon new details about its technical characteristics.

Jen-Hsun Huang, Nvidia charismatic CEO, told CNet reporters that the chipmaker is finally ready to surrender after two years very difficult, due to the combination of economic crisis, which prompted consumers to favor low-cost PC, and a problem in the production of its chips, which emerged in 2008 and cost nearly 300 million dollars in repair costs and replacement, which will add another 200 million dollars for a class action brought by dissatisfied customers.

These problems have resulted in a loss of market share of 19% in the second quarter in 2009 and 25% in the corresponding period of 2010.

The turning point could be reached by the new platform for smartphones and tablet PCs, according to rumors, Nvidia would be getting ready to formalize. Let’s talk about Nvidia Tegra 3, the third generation of the Nvidia platform based on ARM architecture: the first, addressed exclusively to smartphones and pocket the player has been adopted by Microsoft Zune HD, the second, announced at CES 2010, is divided into two different versions , AP20 for smartphones, and T20 for Tablet. And in fact among the samples of U.S. new designs appeared to show the Compal pads, MSI Wind Pad, Quanta and Notion Ink Adam.

Like its predecessors also Tegra 3 will be a SoC, whose main elements are an ARM processor and a Nvidia system. Easy to predict that the new generation of chips will boast a full multimedia features in high definition and will make improvements in the energy efficiency and performance.

The first Tegra 3 devices, T30 initials, are expected by mid-2011. There is a year to dispose of the stocks of Tegra 2 chip.