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2008-06-05 , 23:42
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This chip, when combined with with Nokia's expertise in mobile convergence, could possibly be the most exciting news in portable technology in quite a long time.
 
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2008-06-05 , 23:47
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This chip, when combined with with Nokia's expertise in mobile convergence, could possibly be the most exciting news in portable technology in quite a long time.
I'd like to see something besides marketing hype before I make any judgement. It should be noted that the actually ARM core on this thing is only an ARM11, which the Cortex A8 core in the OMAP3-series will pretty much blow out of the water.
 
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2008-06-07 , 19:22
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Nokia better watch their asses before they get passed standing still...this thing looks like it would murder a N810.
 
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2008-06-07 , 19:40
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Nokia better watch their asses before they get passed standing still...this thing looks like it would murder a N810.
An N810, maybe, but the N810 is, architecturally speaking, almost a year and a half old (since it's basically an N800 with a keyboard).

It should be noted (again) that the ARM side of this thing is an ARM11, no different than what we've got in the N800 and N810 now, and a lot less impressive than the Cortex A8 in the OMAP3 series. The impressive part of this chip seems to be the GPU, but we don't quite know how it'll actually stack up against the PowerVR yet, as it's nothing more than marketing FUD at this point.

All things considered, I'd wait for some concrete information on this before you actually pass any judgement.
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2008-06-09 , 21:14
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Another thing to keep in mind is that nVidia is the most closed graphics vendor these days. While TI, AMD/ATI, Intel, VIA, and so on are making moves with the open-source community, nVidia keeps everything to themselves.

Unless nVidia opens up, I'm not especially interested in the Tegra. Maybe for the next iPhone, but not for an Internet Tablet.
 

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2008-06-10 , 22:40
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Originally Posted by GeneralAntilles View Post
I'd like to see something besides marketing hype before I make any judgement. It should be noted that the actually ARM core on this thing is only an ARM11, which the Cortex A8 core in the OMAP3-series will pretty much blow out of the water.
Totally agreed.
 
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2008-06-11 , 10:47
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Any producer of mobile chips would be a f\tool not to pitch their product to Nokia as part of their marketing effort. I'm sure Nokia is already sampling this. Whether they decide to do anything with it, is a different matter.
 
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2008-06-11 , 12:34
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So, maybe this is the next chip?

A good comparison to the Tegra, anyway...
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2008-06-11 , 12:48
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So, maybe this is the next chip?
The OMAP3440 is a little heavy for the NITs (it's more of a UMPC chip), if anything, it'll be the OMAP3430. Which is really plenty of chip all by itself. The Pandora guys seems to be successfully overclocking the OMAP3530 (a lower production-run, higher ball-pitch, smaller-company targeted chip that's basically identical to the OMAP3430) to around 900MHz. . . .

See my posts in the N900 thread for more details.
 

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2008-06-11 , 16:29
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Another thing to keep in mind is that nVidia is the most closed graphics vendor these days. While TI, AMD/ATI, Intel, VIA, and so on are making moves with the open-source community, nVidia keeps everything to themselves.

Unless nVidia opens up, I'm not especially interested in the Tegra. Maybe for the next iPhone, but not for an Internet Tablet.
Nope. nVidia looks downright friendly compared to the PowerVR folks.

And Via's just an open wannabe. Thus far most of what I've seen is a lot of hot air.
 
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