NVIDIA Aiming for Apple A4 Like Performance with Tegra 2

Submitted by lalit on May 17, 2010 - 12:25pm.

While answering a question at earnings call last week, NVIDIA’s CEO Jen-Hsun Huang accepted that the first generation Tegra chips had very limited scope with focus on Microsoft Windows Mobile platform only. However, with second-generation Tegra 2 chips NVIDIA plans to expand their focus and bring support for Android platform also. He said:

Our first-generation strategy, we wanted to focus on one operating system. It was our new player in this marketplace, and we focused all of our energy around the Microsoft Zune and Microsoft Win Mobile, and I'm delighted with what we were able to build. On the second generation, we were able to expand to focus a lot of our energy around Android. Although it made sense for the first-generation of Androids to use available phone processors, the follow-on generations of Android are really going to go after performance. And iPhones are out there, the iPhone 4G is coming, the iPad is obviously a revolutionary product. The bar is pretty high for all of the mobile players, and so they need a processor that can keep up with the A4. If not, be much better than what the A4 can do because they have to take on the leader in the space.

Till now not a single Android device based on Tegra 2 has shipped, but the above statement clearly shows what NVIDIA is aiming for with the new chipset. The surprising thing is A4 is the first processor Apple has ever shipped, and even though it’s a first gen product it has become the best performing mobile processor available, which only Apple can have for their own devices.
[Via Seeking Alpha]