NVIDIA announced LTE CHIPS FOR TABLET ASUS With WINDOWS RT
As the resource Wall Street Journal, NVIDIA chips will appear later this year in the tablet with support for LTE, enabling the company to strengthen its position in the mobile market, creating a threat to the dominant so far in this field Qualcomm. We are talking about the tablet Taiwanese company ASUS, which plans to offer the market a version of its tablet-based Windows 8 RT to support the 4G communication using LTE-chip NVIDIA. Told the product manager for NVIDIA Avermann Mark (Mark Aevermann).
The tablet will be used to support the implementation of cellular separate chip NVIDIA Icera, and also will receive a processor Tegra. The company reports that it plans to integrate in the future LTE-chip communication in its mobile processors Tegra. LTE-chip Icera, according to Mr.
Aevermanna already certified U.S. mobile operator AT T for data and is in the process of certification of a number of European operators.
As noted by Mark Aevermann, LTE-and Wi-Fi-version of the tablet ASUS, while wearing the codename Tablet 600, is likely to come out with the launch of Windows 8. `In fact, it is entirely up from ASUS, but now it does not interfere with anything #39;, - he said. LTE-version of the tablet will be one of the first, if not the first device using 4G-NVIDIA chips after the absorption of Icera.
As you know, Windows 8 RT - a unique step Microsoft. For the first time a new version of the desktop operating system software giant will be executed on the processor ARM. PC manufacturers and suppliers of ARM-chips like NVIDIA expect to fall out of the OS, hoping that it will revive demand in the PC market, and will successfully resist the Apple iPad.
HP has postponed the launch of its tablet on ARM-based version of Windows 8, and companies like ASUS and Toshiba devices promise to present with the release of the new OS.
NVIDIA still the leader in the supply of ARM-chips for tablets (except for iPad, of course), but with difficulty gaining ground in the market of devices that support cellular communication. Qualcomm, meanwhile, is dominant in the field of wireless communications chips, ranking in the past year, according to Strategy Analytics, nearly half of the market for its chips 3G and 4G, but has a weak position in the field of tablets.
ASUS unveiled its first tablet based on Windows 8 RT in June at the Computex trade show in Taipei, becoming the first company that has shown a device based on Windows RT. The company said then that its 10.1-inch device will be based on the 4-core NVIDIA Tegra 3 chip, but then the company is not talking about the tablet support networks, or using a cell chip NVIDIA.
NVIDIA at Computex announced that devices based on Windows RT and Tegra chips are thin and light, does not have a fan and ensure a long battery life. Mr. Avermann said the other day that tablets based on Windows RT will operate independently for at least 10 hours.
In addition to the tablet ASUS, Tegra processor will also be used, at least in the #39;reference#39; device Microsoft Surface.
