Tegra Is A Tigera..

Nvidia’s Tegra aims to take the same market segment that treats the company’s reach into a new market that currently has a demand of more than 1 billion processors per year.

So what the heck is it? It’s a computer. Yeah…I know. A computer. The kicker? It’s on a small nanochip. Revolt! Tegra can be formally called a “system-on-a-chip” (SoC) or “computer-on-a-chip” (CoC). Tegra has:

  • ARM11 CPU core
  • GoForce (renamed into GeForce ULV) GPU
  • an image processor (digital camera support)
  • a HD video processor (PureVideo for handhelds)
  • memory (NAND Flash, Mobile DDR)
  • a northbridge (memory controller, display output, HDMI+HDCP, security engine)
  • a southbridge (USB OTG, UART, external memory card SPI SDIO, etc).

Posted By: Usman Ihtsham
ON Monday, June 2nd, 2008
2:57 PM

8 Comments so far

  1. afirmitive June 2nd, 2008 3:51 PM

    Tegra? What the heck…SoC…what’s happening to our hardware world!!1

  2. atl_rg June 2nd, 2008 3:51 PM

    Sounds interesting. Definitely would like to hear more.

    Usman Ihtsham replied on June 2, 2008 3:57 PM:

    We’re working on it!

  3. atl_rg June 2nd, 2008 5:19 PM

    I’d like to see this stand up to my PC.

  4. bbflynn June 2nd, 2008 5:22 PM

    Sounds a bit weird

    venkatezh replied on June 3, 2008 1:22 AM:

    These will never take over system buses. Ever!

    Usman Ihtsham replied on June 3, 2008 1:25 AM:

    I’m not TOO sure on that one ;). But you’re most likely right. Let’s see where this goes

  5. genieinthebottle June 3rd, 2008 3:00 PM

    We just bought what you recommended before.

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