Intel's Atom may have not been designed for this type of a device, but Nvidia's Tegra certainly was. It was designed from the ground up as a low power, high performance ultra-mobile chipset.

Here are some of the features at a glance:
- ARM11 Core running 700MHz or 800MHz (Tegra 600 or Tegra 650)
- Ability to decode 1080p video stream (H.264)
- Ability to encode 720p video stream (H.264)
- Video out (HDMI 1.3) at full 1080p
- Open GL ES 2.0 compliant
- Advanced 3D graphics with UPL GeForce GPU
- Programmable pixel/vertex shaders
- Ultra low power system on a chip

This comer is a little late to the game, but Nvidia arguably makes a quality product with a focus on 3D and performance. This chipset, from the demos and the specs, looks to be a powerhouse. Interestingly, it seems Nvidia has also invested some time in developing a GUI for Tegra Devices (running on WinMo I believe).

For those that haven't seen, you can watch some demos of the chipset in action using this link.

With the introduction of this chipset, Nvidia is looking to break into the mobile world in a big way. I'm guessing that the N900 won't be alone, but will be flanked by many high powered devices mobile devices making the N900 specs seem a little less special.

Should the Nokia entertain the notion of including Tegra in the future tablets?


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