Articles about nvidia

I'm sure you've all read the marketing materials about this year's Android tablet powered by the dual core Tegra 2 platform (most of current tablets that is). It was always mentioned how great and powerful Nvidia's chip is, but frankly I haven't seen to many 3D games for Android Honeycomb that showcase the platform computing capabilities. It's like Nvidia heard us, as it launched Tegra Zone, a companion site for the Tegra Zone Android app, which you might have installed on your Android device al...

What do you do when you have a dual core CPU tablet, like any Tegra 2 model launched this year? You install games from the Android marketplace and use them, just like any Android user. That's now cool with Nvidia, which come up with the perfect solution to promote the additional computing power provided by its solution: launch the NVIDIA Tegra Zone.Wow, but what is Tegra Zone? To put it simply it's an app store inside an app store, Inception style. What NVIDIA did is contact some of the best...

Even if Tegra 2 devices have just been announced in past month, with the platform being ready since last year, Nvidia is thinking forward of the next generation(s) of Tegra chipset. At MWC Nvidia was able to demonstrate the next generation Tegra, codenamed Kal-El, a quad-core CPU with a 12 core GPU. The test consisted of playback of a 1440p video on a 30 inch display (2560 x 1600 pixels). The 1440p is not a standard right now (nor it was announced), but it could be the next gen HD, which probabl...

The NVIDIA Tegra platform sure is one subject that many talk about, but the problem lies in the fact that not too many products are using it, despite the multimedia advantages that it brings. Couple that with the impressive batttery life under video playback and you might say we have a winner here (especially the Tegra 2 chip). Now NVIDIA wants to change that, and they take the other approach, not the one involving getting new partners, but the one that puts high hopes in research and developmen...

It's interesting to see big names in the IT industry fighting each other in completely different official statements, just like in a cock fight, but in the end the market decides who's the winner. That's how it is and how it will ever be. Today we have Microsoft pitted against Nvidia in the tablet wars, if you like, where both companies have completely different opinions on Android OS and it's purpose in life.On one hand Steve Guggenheimer, Microsoft's OEM vice president, says Android is jus...

After the first generation of Tegra mobile platform, Nvidia acknowledges that it made a mistake by teaming up too close with Microsoft and now is planning to switch orientation towards Android devices with its Tegra 2 platform, which is soon to be released for end users. Nvidia takes direct aim at Apple's A4 chip (found inside iPad) and other mobile architectures, found in smartphones, MIDs and current tablets. The main advantage of Tegra 2, according to Nvidia, comes from the fact that is a pla...

The news that Tegra 2 based tablets are delayed because of some hardware with software integration problems is good news for the iPad, that launches in store in less than two days. So, the few people who hoped for an iPad competitor must wait a few months more till the problems are solved. Affected are models that we care much about here at AllTouchTablet.com, like Notion Ink Adam and ICD ultra.We don't know exactly for sure when the problems will be solved, or their exact nature but we know...

This post is the first one of the many that will speak about All-in-One Touchscreen Desktop PCs, which are gaining more and more popularity thanks to the increase interest in compact devices with touch support. Today we'll talk about the latest announced models from the Asus EEE Top series of desktop All in Ones, the ET2010PNT, ET2010P, ET2010PN, ET2010AGT, ET2010AGT and ET1610PT models. The first five are 20 inch models and the last one is a 15.6 inch model, all touch, but not all multitouch en...

Nvidia announced the Tegra 2 platform quite a while ago and it seems that the first working prototypes are on display already at trade shows like GDC 2010, where the first video demo of the Tegra 2 was filmed showing some impressive performance for a mobile device. You won't be able to play the latest games but expect arcades, quests, flash games and HD video playback to be a breeze for the Tegra 2 chipset, a combination of an ARM CPU and a GeForce based graphics core.We already know about t...

I was browsing the other day through my pile of touch tablet news I haven't wrote anything about yet and come upon a bit of news about Nvidia's demo of a Tegra 2 prototype tablet running flash games, in their case the Farmville Facebook app. Seeing this work makes you wonder why Apple isn't doing anything to make the iPad flash compatible as without it they'll lose a lot of potential customers that use touch tablets for leisure, not work stuff (not that it is possible without a keyboard).[ca...