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    Nvidia to power android (gphone) + Atom & Nano chipsets

    Nvidia, VIA Team Up On Smart Phone Processor Business | CENS.com - The Taiwan Economic News.

    Taipei, Aug. 29, 2008 (CENS)--Graphic-processor vendor Nvidia Corp. will work with VIA Technologies Inc. to tap global market of processors for smart phones by integrating Nividia Tegra processor with VIA Nano processor, according to Nvidia Chief Executive Jen-Hsun Huang.

    Hung stressed that the collaboration with VIA would be a top priority since his company would begin to venture into the market next year, as would Intel. will introduce Atom processor to compete in the market.

    Currently, Texas Instruments (TI), Qualcomm, Marvell Technology, and Samsung are dominating the market.

    Huang said at the Nvision 2008 technology forum that smart phone would trigger second personal computing revolution and his company would fully focus on developing smart-phone market as crucial strategy. He noted that computing would replace talking as the major function in next-generation smart phones.

    The Nvidia`s top executive noted that his company would develop chipsets for VIA Nano processor and Intel Atom processor as the two processors are developed on the x86 architecture.
    Interesting. Nvidia is part of the handset alliance and does keep banging on about this. Nvidia in a Google phone? Being Google it should dominate apple in terms of functionality while still being "cool"

    Also Nvidia to make atom chipsets, that could be interesting for low power devices too although nvidia chipsets and low power aren't two words I'd usually put in a sentence.
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    I think this might have some promise.
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    I wonder why kind of fan the thing needs to keep cool.....
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    Considering that Via's Nano(the chip itself) uses on the order of 10x the power of Atom and nVidia doesn't exactly have experience with low power motherboards for x86, this doesn't seem like it will work all that well. Via does have the lead in low power chipsets, but I wonder how well they will fare when Intel starts using a modern technology for the chipset. In any case, I really don't see nVidia as being very important in terms of the technology they will bring to the table. Their important contribution will likely be funding.
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    ya fidge i dont really understand this either
    maybe they are banking on the fact that it will be an alternative?
    they may make a few bucks from it

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    Well the 945 is a crap chipset. I've not seen news that Intel are not going to upgrade it either, they are going to integrate the chipset next year.
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