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NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang announced the second version of the Tegra chip; essentially a SoC (System on Chip) design that incorporates a dual-core ARM9 processor, an NVIDIA graphical processor with 8 cores and audio. It's manufactured in a slim 40nm process, but most astounding is that it nibbles only 500 milliwatts of power at full load, and doesn't require any active cooling nor even a heatsink.
While the chip isn't going to be anywhere near as fast in CPU tasks as the latest CPUs from Intel or AMD, and the graphics core isn't going to be as fast as any desktop cards – the one thing it offers is extreme portability. NVIDIA seem to have packed the new Tegra chip into any space that is big enough to hold one, and there's already over fifty developers that have devices in mind based around the teensy platform. The chip doesn't appear to be confirmed in the rumoured next-gen Nintendo handheld, though anything is possible at this stage.
While the chip isn't going to be anywhere near as fast in CPU tasks as the latest CPUs from Intel or AMD, and the graphics core isn't going to be as fast as any desktop cards – the one thing it offers is extreme portability. NVIDIA seem to have packed the new Tegra chip into any space that is big enough to hold one, and there's already over fifty developers that have devices in mind based around the teensy platform. The chip doesn't appear to be confirmed in the rumoured next-gen Nintendo handheld, though anything is possible at this stage.
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