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It’s not clear yet whether the 3D technology which these Nvidia’s chips will bring in will require users to wear glasses to watch 3D content or not, but at least the LG device that's rumored to carry them is not expected to require eyewear.
Nvidia reportedly plans to announce its upgraded system-on-chip in February during a company presentation at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, along with an all-new Tegra 3 platform that should make its debut towards the end of the year. Claimed to be the world's first quad-core mobile solution, Tegra 3 will feature up to four Cortex-A9 cores clocked at up to 1.5 GHz, three times the graphics performance of its predecessor, an ULP (ultra-low power) CPU mode, and will support Blu-ray video and displays with a maximum resolution of 1920 x 1200 pixels.
Both will be available in tablet and smartphone flavors. Check out BSN for an in-depth look at Nvidia’s plans going forward, including a so-called Maxwell chip that the company hopes will go down in history as the world's first consumer solution that will effortlessly run full-blown operating systems entirely off a GPU core.
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That's seriously powerful hardware for handheld devices. I wonder what kind of batteries we'll need to power up the next generation of smartphones. "Tegra 2 3D" ?, someone's taking the Crysis joke a bit too seriously
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Sarcasm said:
Wow a quad core for mobile devices. A majority of people still don't even have quad core desktops. Funny.
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sarcasm said:
Wow a quad core for mobile devices. A majority of people still don't even have quad core desktops. Funny.
Yup, and with mobile tech increasing by leaps and bounds, we're going to see the desktop market shrinking and growing even more specialized. Tablets, netbooks, smartphones, and good old laptops are going to take over. Someday soon, I imagine large home servers (or maybe processing stations with heavy duty hardware) will become commonplace, but I think there will be an interim period where the desktop PC becomes rather unpopular.
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princeton said:
flannelwarrior said:sarcasm said:Wow a quad core for mobile devices. A majority of people still don't even have quad core desktops. Funny.
Yup, and with mobile tech increasing by leaps and bounds, we're going to see the desktop market shrinking and growing even more specialized. Tablets, netbooks, smartphones, and good old laptops are going to take over. Someday soon, I imagine large home servers (or maybe processing stations with heavy duty hardware) will become commonplace, but I think there will be an interim period where the desktop PC becomes rather unpopular.
No it seriously won't. If I can fit X amount of transistors on a small mobile chip then I can fit a lot more on the desktop version. This is why desktops will not be phased out.
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princeton said:flannelwarrior said:sarcasm said:
Wow a quad core for mobile devices. A majority of people still don't even have quad core desktops. Funny.
Yup, and with mobile tech increasing by leaps and bounds, we're going to see the desktop market shrinking and growing even more specialized. Tablets, netbooks, smartphones, and good old laptops are going to take over. Someday soon, I imagine large home servers (or maybe processing stations with heavy duty hardware) will become commonplace, but I think there will be an interim period where the desktop PC becomes rather unpopular.
No it seriously won't. If I can fit X amount of transistors on a small mobile chip then I can fit a lot more on the desktop version. This is why desktops will not be phased out.
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Maybe not phased out (I don't believe flannelwarrior stated that in any case) but they will certainly be somewhat less ubiquitous than they are at present. For most peoples computing needs, a desktop replacement laptop/notebook (or tablet/smartphone in future) with monitor/tv and remote storage connectivity is about all that a large percentage of people will need.
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