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TEGRA 3 BRINGS GOOGLE’S NEXUS 7 TABLET TO THE MASSES

The mobile technology industry moves with head-snapping speed. The NVIDIA Tegra 3 mobile processor has quickly moved to the epicenter of the mobile computing revolution, and has been featured in some of this year’s biggest consumer product launches. Introduced moments ago, Google’s Nexus 7 tablet is the first consumer device to run the new Android “Jelly… Read More

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TECHNOLOGY FORMERLY KNOWN AS VSMP NOW 4-PLUS-1

We’ve described Tegra 3’s unique architecture in a number of ways since its launch back in November 2011 – as variable symmetric multiprocessing, as having a “companion core” or as wielding a “ninja core“. Today, we’re officially calling it the 4-PLUS-1 quad-core architecture and trademarking the name. The reason is that, the more popular this technology… Read More

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THE DEVICE THAT ATE AN ELECTRONICS SUPERSTORE

Just beyond Christmas’s soft red and green glow, the harsh neon of the Las Vegas Consumer Electronics Show is already radiating above the horizon line.  Reliably falling in the first full week of January, CES blows in like a flash snowstorm, bringing thousands of exhibitors and 100,000-plus attendees. Some are pondering what will be wrapped… Read More

TEGRA’S COMING OUT PARTY

As many of you know, as the General Manager of the Mobile BU here at NVIDIA, I eat, sleep and breathe Tegra. The past two years have been a nonstop, around-the-world trip espousing the virtues of this tiny computer on a chip.  The acquisition of Portal Player sent me on a one-day trip to India… Read More