Intel’s mobile business has been a famously disastrous affair, with the company that dominates the computer chip market failing to make an impact in the tablet and mobile space. It’s hoping that’ll soon change with its next generation of chips and partnerships with Lenovo and Acer. Read more
NVIDIA is still working on getting the Tegra 2 chip into more phones and tablets but it’s already touting it’s next two processors teed-up to power future tablets. At its GPU Technology Conference, NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang swerved off the script and promised new Tegra processors to a room full of wide-eyed tech press.
Huang says the Tegra 3 chip is already done and Tegra 4 development is well underway. He went on to reveal that we can expect a new Tegra generation every year. Maybe those Tegra 2 Android tablets we’ve been burbling about will end up sporting the mysterious Tegra 3 processor instead. Is it a bit weird that we’re excited about this? Well…maybe a little but more power means better tablets and this increasingly iPad-dominated world, that’s something to cheer about.
The PlayStation 3 may be cutting edge, but it still requires a shell the size of a grand piano to fit it all in. But a smaller version that actually fits inside a house may well be on the way thanks to some new processor magic. Read more