NVIDIA's Tegra 2 Take Two: More Architectural Details and Design Wins
by Anand Lal Shimpi on January 5, 2011 2:51 PM EST- Posted in
- Smartphones
- Motorola Droid
- Tegra 2
- LG
- Optimus 2X
- ATRIX 4G
- Mobile
- NVIDIA
Final Words
Although it feels a bit odd to be talking about the same SoC architecture I did twelve months ago, the difference this time around is that NVIDIA actually has tangible design wins. LG’s Optimus 2X and Motorola’s ATRIX 4G both use NVIDIA’s Tegra 2 SoC and will be shipping later this quarter.
I’m also expecting to see a number of Froyo and Honeycomb based tablets running Tegra 2 to be teased at the show, although we probably won’t see them for an even longer period of time.
NVIDIA also managed some Tegra 2 design wins in automotive with announcements from Audi and Tesla at this year’s CES.
All in all, Tegra 2 is feeling a lot more like nForce 2 did upon its launch. It’s finally greeted with much better reception than its predecessor and it is poised to actually make some waves in the industry. Whether it can hold up to dual-core Snapdragon and TI’s OMAP 4 remains to be seen.
I believe we’ve probably seen NVIDIA’s best foot forward with Tegra 2 today, the question from here on out is one of execution and how soon can we get to the next iteration of the Tegra family.
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tumbleweed - Wednesday, January 5, 2011 - link
Any OMAP 4 phone design wins announced yet? I really want to see how that battle plays out.bplewis24 - Wednesday, January 5, 2011 - link
When will you guys be able to post the benchmarking numbers?Also, if the 2X is running a beta build of 2.2 Froyo, why is the status bar black? Are those stock/borrowed photos?
Brandon
strikeback03 - Thursday, January 6, 2011 - link
Manufacturers could skin the status bar if they wanted, the Galaxy S phones with 2.1 have a black status barsnoozemode - Wednesday, January 5, 2011 - link
Man, why did they have to do that.. After a few months the images get so bad when the plastic is all messy.strikeback03 - Thursday, January 6, 2011 - link
Because otherwise it is the front lens of the camera getting nasty?TareX - Wednesday, January 5, 2011 - link
Why did you describe the Optimus 2X as "one of the fastest smartphones we’ve encountered"??That's very disappointing. What phone can be faster?
KidneyBean - Thursday, January 6, 2011 - link
The iPhone? Seriously, it does seem to be fast for what it can do. I'm an Android type of guy myself.TareX - Thursday, January 6, 2011 - link
I understand the iPhone 4 "appearing" to be the fastest. But they said the aforementioned phrase right after mentioning that they can't reveal benchmarking scores. So it sounds like another phone beat it in benchmarks.Aloonatic - Friday, January 7, 2011 - link
Well, even if it was/is the fastest phone that they have tested/benchmarked, they couldn't say it here as that would probably be revealing a little too much. As such they probably have to be as vague as they are, so that we are left guessing.Cali3350 - Thursday, January 6, 2011 - link
Probably the iPhone 4. When it comes to being smooth iOS is untouched at this point in time (probably because everything is GPU accelerated).