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NVIDIA Tegra 650 Processor Announced - Ready To Battle x86 CPUs?

NVIDIA has just introduced the Tegra family of processors, the world's first single-chip computer capable of the rich high definition and internet experiences we've come to expect from our PCs, but on small pocket type devices. NVIDIA Tegra is a tiny computer-on-a-chip, smaller than a US dime, designed from the ground up to enable the "visual PC experience" on a new generation of mobile computing devices while consuming the smallest amount of power.



Article Title: NVIDIA Tegra 650 Processor Announced - Ready To Battle x86 CPUs?
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I hope they bring out awesome PVPs with all this new stuff, after getting into the whole watching video on my ipod thing, I want something better that isn't much bigger.

Dan

i hate watching video on ipod, screen is way to small. one of the reasons i have a zune (even though the screen on mine is cracked, not the zunes fault though, i abused it throughly (at least 3 drops per week from 5 feet up) and it lasted for a good year.
personally, i dont like the way things are going in the computer market. with intel getting in to gpu's, nvidia getting into procesors, i think they should just remain in there nich

I've had a few people e-mail me something along the lines of what this person sent me...

You stated in your article:

"The die size of the Tegra 650 and Tegra 600 is just 144mm2, which makes it ten times smaller than the Intel Atom!"

In point of fact, the Atom is 25mm2…

http://www.intel.com/technology/atom/index.htm

I didn't make that part of the article clear enough, so I am going to re-word it.

"The die size of the Tegra 650 and Tegra 600 is just 144mm2, which makes it ten times smaller than an Intel Atom platform that needs additional chipsets in order for it to operate."

Here is a slide from the NVIDIA press deck to better show how they get 10x smaller...

ooo, can't wait to get my hands on one of these babies... so who wants to buy one for me? j/k

maybe this will be my next HTPC.... anyone?

Apoptosis wrote:I've had a few people e-mail me something along the lines of what this person sent me...

You stated in your article:

"The die size of the Tegra 650 and Tegra 600 is just 144mm2, which makes it ten times smaller than the Intel Atom!"

In point of fact, the Atom is 25mm2…

http://www.intel.com/technology/atom/index.htm

I didn't make that part of the article clear enough, so I am going to re-word it.

"The die size of the Tegra 650 and Tegra 600 is just 144mm2, which makes it ten times smaller than an Intel Atom platform that needs additional chipsets in order for it to operate."

Here is a slide from the NVIDIA press deck to better show how they get 10x smaller...

tegra_size.jpg

So the chip in the middle is the northbridge and the one on the right is the southbridge?

you got it!

is this processor on this multi-threaded or multi-core?

wow technology just jumped like 3 generations in the past month.

WHAT!?!?! Nvidia is making processors now? This is quite an astonishment! Sounds like an apocalyptic event.... random smilies kickass!