HTC Plans to Develop Nvidia Tegra-based Smartphones
By Jenny • Jan 14th, 2009 • Category: HTCHTC recently announced that it will make use of the powerful Nvidia Tegra APX processors in its new smartphones that are going to be launched in the second half of 2009. The Nvidia Tegra system-on-chip (SoC) is a hi-fi processor that was made by Nvidia, the world’s leading developer of top notch visual computing technologies. Tegra was developed in mid 2008 with a vision to offer awesome graphics processing features in HTC smartphones as well.
The Tegra processor packs the whole system memory, CPU and GPU in a single chip and features vary tiny form factor. This will help the HTC a lot in maintaining its smartphone’s aesthetic quality. The Nvidia Tegra will definitely take the smartphone computing to a much advanced level. Now the smartphones will produce jaw dropping visuals, fluid animations and high tech gaming effects right on your palm. This means we will start to see more advanced games and applications, like with the iPhone, on future generations of models like the HTC Touch HD. The Tegra 600 series SoC offers ARM11 CPU, GeForce graphics with programmable pixel shader and programmable vertex shader support, build-in low-power DDR memory controller, NAND flash memory controller, high-definition video processor supporting MPEG 4, H.264, VC-1/WMV9 decoding, H.264 and MPEG4 encoding. Apart from this the chip is optimised for dual displays, large MP cameras, USB file transfer, PATA drives and high definition displays.
According to Nvidia the Tegra is capable of running HD video for 30 hours on a single charge. It will also bring a whole new Web 2.0 experience to the end users. The HTC’s Tegra-based smartphones will be smarter, speedier and more stylish than any other phones currently available.
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