Mobile System on Chip Thread
 

Coming This Fall. The roadmap has been leaked:

http://armdevices.net/wp-content/upl...11-roadmap.jpg

Charbax of armdevices.net has the scoop:
http://armdevices.net/2011/01/24/teg...oadmap-leaked/

It looks like Nvidia is looking to bring their blistering performance and timely innovation to the low-power SoC market.

Quad core? 3x better performance that the T20? Able to drive a 1900x1200 display? Wow. This chip should give ATOM a serious run for its money, only deliverable in devices with a smartphone/tablet form factor.

Re: Tegra 3
 

Very interesting.

I also found this on xda, if legit, the OMAP 4440 is a beast!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...php?p=10822670

Re: Tegra 3
 

cool. FYI the new ATOM chips "Medfield" are going to be pretty competitive with these specs if Intel actually delivers. We are supposed to see a single core hyperthreaded cpu at about 1.6ghz and graphics performance 5x faster than what we have now. Well, maybe not that competitive, but it should beat the Tegra 3 to market by a few months...

Re: Tegra 3
 

in my opinion it all seems a bit TOO powerful for a small device like a phone. smartphones dont really need all this power, thats what a computer is for. :)

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Yeah, everyone has different preferences on the ideal device. More power is great to have available, but for a phone it still needs to be efficient. I don't see much point in having a CPU that kills the battery in 2 hours of 100% usage, the risk seems too high that you will accidentally drain it. These new CPUs require a very solid foundation of power-saving and efficiency in the operating system, this is why Intel joined MeeGo rather than just releasing their processors. Maybe it's a mistake by Nvidia not to join too, ARM was quite efficient but a quad core has a high potential for power drain.

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Some games would be nice to play on these Cortex's.

No point having all this power with no f*****g games.

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There are no more smartphones, tablets, netbook or desktops. There are just computers (converged devices in Nokia lingo) with different power envelopes and different form factors.

EDIT: And as cool as quad-A9-s are, I hate the marketing spin (1.5 GHz, 13800 MIPS). There is a reason people call MIPS Meaningless Indication of Processor Speed.

Re: Tegra 3
 

Nvidia seems pretty confident that heat and battery life won't be an issue with these Tegra chips in real life scenarios - lets hope they're right.

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I wouldn't trust NVIDIA with that as i think they pretty much screwed up they're PC GPU cards with the heat issues. Im not sure how well the Tegra chips fare in the battery department.

But if there is a chip im waiting to get my hands on then that has to be the ST-Ericsson U8500 SoC. That is one hell of a chip...

Re: Tegra 3
 

Are those quad still going to be the most castrated and crippled A9s like in current Tegra?