Tegra

Tegra is a general purpose processor (CPU, NVIDIA is called" Computer on a chip" computer on a chip ), to a portable device with high performance, low power consumption experience.

Application of Tegra

Tegra the first batch of products have two, respectively, Tegra 600 and Tegra 650, ARM 11 schema based on. But prior to the release of the mobile phone application processor APX2500 will also be attributed to the Tegra product line, renamed Tegra APX 2500. Can say, NVIDIA aimed at already from mobile phone and PC two starting point to the same direction -- Portable Internet device integration trend, this and the recently launched Atom processor Intel have similar views.

The reason NVIDIA Tegra called" chip computer", is because the single chip contains more than one ARM 11 processor core, its interior also includes a graphics processing unit, a multimedia processor, memory and peripheral equipment. Only a shortage of coins the size of low power chip can realize many functions. And Intel PC as a starting point to the x86 architecture, ARM architecture Tegra is more like a mobile phone processor as a starting point to make development. It cannot run x86 PC on Windows XP operating system, but in the mobile phone applications for ARM schema lightweight operating system can adapt to the high speed and low power consumption demand it.

NVIDIA mobile devices business general manager Mike Rayfield said this week, Computex late meeting, you can hear the major manufacturers to discuss the design based on Tegra new product news. The first batch of Tegra based on MID mobile Internet device will all come from Taiwan manufacturers, price is in 200 to around $250, is expected at the end of this year's Christmas shopping season appears on the market, high performance graphics processing ( game ) and high definition video decoding is Tegra platform relative to other portable platform is the biggest advantage of.

Tegra Nvidia will be the next step in the development of another important product. Tegra is a system on chip ( system-on-a-chip ) chip, which integrates the ARM architecture processors and Nvidia Geforce GPU, and with other functions, and products are mainly for small equipment.