http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/24/tegra-to-hit-media-pads-soon-says-company-man-mike-rayfield/ Engadget Comments for Tegra to hit 'media pads' soon says company man Mike Rayfield http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/24/tegra-to-hit-media-pads-soon-says-company-man-mike-rayfield/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/24/tegra-to-hit-media-pads-soon-says-company-man-mike-rayfield/Aug 24th 2009 11:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/24/tegra-to-hit-media-pads-soon-says-company-man-mike-rayfield/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/24/tegra-to-hit-media-pads-soon-says-company-man-mike-rayfield/Aug 24th 2009 11:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/24/tegra-to-hit-media-pads-soon-says-company-man-mike-rayfield/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/24/tegra-to-hit-media-pads-soon-says-company-man-mike-rayfield/Aug 24th 2009 11:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/24/tegra-to-hit-media-pads-soon-says-company-man-mike-rayfield/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/24/tegra-to-hit-media-pads-soon-says-company-man-mike-rayfield/Aug 24th 2009 12:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/24/tegra-to-hit-media-pads-soon-says-company-man-mike-rayfield/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/24/tegra-to-hit-media-pads-soon-says-company-man-mike-rayfield/Aug 24th 2009 11:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/24/tegra-to-hit-media-pads-soon-says-company-man-mike-rayfield/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/24/tegra-to-hit-media-pads-soon-says-company-man-mike-rayfield/
hey chekit out, there isnot a reply button... it was invented to stop the abuse of the @@@@@@@ char.

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First it's god's gift to portable multimedia (based upon NVidia's say so).
Then, even though no one has seen it, it's somehow a selling point for Zune HD (instead of tangible things like battery life, file compatibility or actually being soldered properly).
Now it's being associated with Apple.

Legally it's probably not stock manipulation, but someone is working the hype machine pretty hard.]]>Aug 24th 2009 11:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/24/tegra-to-hit-media-pads-soon-says-company-man-mike-rayfield/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/24/tegra-to-hit-media-pads-soon-says-company-man-mike-rayfield/Aug 24th 2009 12:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/24/tegra-to-hit-media-pads-soon-says-company-man-mike-rayfield/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/24/tegra-to-hit-media-pads-soon-says-company-man-mike-rayfield/Aug 24th 2009 2:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/24/tegra-to-hit-media-pads-soon-says-company-man-mike-rayfield/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/24/tegra-to-hit-media-pads-soon-says-company-man-mike-rayfield/Aug 24th 2009 6:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/24/tegra-to-hit-media-pads-soon-says-company-man-mike-rayfield/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/24/tegra-to-hit-media-pads-soon-says-company-man-mike-rayfield/
There is just as much evidence that they all are working on one than Apple.

and no, fan mock-ups dont count as "working on one".]]>Aug 24th 2009 11:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/24/tegra-to-hit-media-pads-soon-says-company-man-mike-rayfield/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/24/tegra-to-hit-media-pads-soon-says-company-man-mike-rayfield/Aug 24th 2009 11:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/24/tegra-to-hit-media-pads-soon-says-company-man-mike-rayfield/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/24/tegra-to-hit-media-pads-soon-says-company-man-mike-rayfield/
How does the Ion platform compare w/ the Tegra platform?

Tegra is CPU and GPU in one chip, less powerful, and less power hungry? Any link where I can find this comparison quantified?]]>Aug 24th 2009 12:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/24/tegra-to-hit-media-pads-soon-says-company-man-mike-rayfield/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/24/tegra-to-hit-media-pads-soon-says-company-man-mike-rayfield/
Tegra is a series of processors revolving around the ARM processor core. Its ultra-low voltage, but is not designed to run standard OS's. Its designed to go into small portable devices such as media players. Its designed for embedded OS's, such as Windows CE, the backbone of the Zune HD, or Android.]]>Aug 24th 2009 10:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/24/tegra-to-hit-media-pads-soon-says-company-man-mike-rayfield/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/24/tegra-to-hit-media-pads-soon-says-company-man-mike-rayfield/
What, Apple is using Tegra too? Aww-sh*t!

HR Radio! HD Radio! HD Radio!]]>Aug 24th 2009 12:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/24/tegra-to-hit-media-pads-soon-says-company-man-mike-rayfield/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/24/tegra-to-hit-media-pads-soon-says-company-man-mike-rayfield/
Or is it ok to do what competitors are doing, after they have already done it, when Apple is the one doing it?

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Nvidia working with Apple - good chance based on this guy's body language.]]>Aug 24th 2009 12:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/24/tegra-to-hit-media-pads-soon-says-company-man-mike-rayfield/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/24/tegra-to-hit-media-pads-soon-says-company-man-mike-rayfield/Aug 24th 2009 9:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/24/tegra-to-hit-media-pads-soon-says-company-man-mike-rayfield/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/24/tegra-to-hit-media-pads-soon-says-company-man-mike-rayfield/Aug 24th 2009 1:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/24/tegra-to-hit-media-pads-soon-says-company-man-mike-rayfield/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/24/tegra-to-hit-media-pads-soon-says-company-man-mike-rayfield/Aug 24th 2009 2:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/24/tegra-to-hit-media-pads-soon-says-company-man-mike-rayfield/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/24/tegra-to-hit-media-pads-soon-says-company-man-mike-rayfield/
It is almost certain that the elusive Apple tablet is using a next-generation, 45nm dual ARM Cortex-A9 design, probably running at at least 1.0Ghz or more. This would be far more usable for the types of applications people would expect a large tablet device to be able to run, not to mention rendering webpages at a far higher resolution than a 480x320 smartphone.]]>Aug 24th 2009 5:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/24/tegra-to-hit-media-pads-soon-says-company-man-mike-rayfield/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/24/tegra-to-hit-media-pads-soon-says-company-man-mike-rayfield/
This leaves the processor to execute processes, without hindering the performance of general tasks. Thats why the Tegra is such a powerful processor. Its tasks are split among dedicated cores leaving the main processor with much less to do.]]>Aug 24th 2009 10:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/24/tegra-to-hit-media-pads-soon-says-company-man-mike-rayfield/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/24/tegra-to-hit-media-pads-soon-says-company-man-mike-rayfield/
I don't think you have a good grasp of this stuff. *ALL* High-end ARM-based system-on-a-chip units from various manufacturers come with a plethora of components, including one or more ARM cores, graphics processing units, floating point units, general purpose DSPs, dedicated video encoding/decoding engines, audio decoding logic, image processing units, (for camera phone), etc. All of these specialized co-processors are used in unison. Nvidia's Tegra is by no means unique in this regard.

For example, the popular TI OMAP3 3430 has:
- 1x ARM Cortex-A8 Core (which itself has the high-performance floating point "NEON" SIMD engine)
- IVA2+ dedicated multimedia encoding/decoding chip
- PowerVR SGX35 3D graphics processing unit
- ISP dedicated Image signal processor
(http://focus.ti.com/general/docs/wtbu/wtbuproductcontent.tsp?templateId=6123&navigationId=12796&contentId=36505)

Again, the Tegra is a good chip with a great GPU. But even though it has 2 ARM processing cores, they are still low-clocked 650mhz ARM11 (ARMv6 instruction set) cores. The newer Cortex-A8 architecture is over TWICE as fast as ARM11 at the same clockspeed. So two 650mhz ARM11 cores is about equal to one 650mhz Cortex A8 (ARMv7 instruction set)

For comparison, Qualcomm has a 45nm Snapdragon chip. It uses a custom Cortex-compatible core that is essentially a turbo-charged Cortex-A8, and it runs at 1.3Ghz. And the on-board GPU is no slouch. That would blow away the Tegra in raw processing power, although the Tegra's GPU is probably better.

The next generation multi-core Cortex-A9 architecture is even better. I believe the Apple Tablet will be using a 45nm dual-core Cortex-A9 design coming from PA SEMI.]]>Aug 24th 2009 11:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/24/tegra-to-hit-media-pads-soon-says-company-man-mike-rayfield/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/24/tegra-to-hit-media-pads-soon-says-company-man-mike-rayfield/Aug 24th 2009 6:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/24/tegra-to-hit-media-pads-soon-says-company-man-mike-rayfield/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/24/tegra-to-hit-media-pads-soon-says-company-man-mike-rayfield/Aug 25th 2009 4:26AM