NVIDIA CEO backs Android OS, says Windows has become too unwieldy
By Dean • Jun 2nd, 2010 • Category: Industry News
- Photo: NVIDIA
Everybody has an opinion on tablet computing and where the future lies in this regard. The latest to give his admittedly weighty two cents is NVIDIA CEO, Jen-Hsung Huang, who has said he believes Android OS is the operating system to rally behind.
Better suited for tablets
Speaking at Taiwan’s Computex event, he said ‘Windows is too big’ and ‘too full featured for smartbooks and tablets’, agreeing in sentiment with our opinion on Windows-powered tablets, if not in reason (we oppose it because it was built for mouse-and-keyboard and not for touchscreens).
Having pointed out the problem with Windows 7 tablets, NVIDIA’s CEO realised the need to back another OS. As such, he said that Google’s Android OS is the ‘operating system to unite behind’.
Needs time, still
The NVIDIA CEO was careful to point out that, in its current iteration, Android isn’t quite tablet ready, and that he believed the core Google Android team realised this. Huang says he reckons come the US autumn (between September and November) this problem will be rectified.
NVIDIA’s agenda
- Photo: Android
Naturally, NVIDIA would not speak on this area if the company did not have an agenda of its own. The GPU chipset company hopes that the tablet market will be a new avenue to proliferate its product range.
The tablet OS war
Much like the vaunted smartphone OS standoff lead by RIM, Google and the iPhone, tablets are quickly becoming a proving ground for new mobile OS platforms. Windows, the leading operating system on the desktop, is making the transition, as well as Android OS and iPhone OS, the leading operating system on smartphones.
From early clues, it seems adding to the core smartphone OSes works better than trying to reduce the comparatively bloated Windows 7 OS to tablets. In this regard, it looks like Microsoft would be adopting the wrong strategy to another potential billion dollar industry, with the need to build a tablet equivalent of Windows Phone 7 Series looking more promising than what the company is trying to do.
Regardless, with the iPad’s fantastic start out the gates, and other tablets soon to join the fray, we’ll see if Hsuang’s rallying call is heeded.
Tags for this article: nvidia, windows 7, tablet pc
who gives a flying turd about what the ceo of a loser company like Nvidia thinks?
Huang already drove his company into the ground