Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Tegra 3+ to bring 1.7 GHz CPU, 1080p displays, 25% faster GPU, and LTE to phones

NVIDIA's Tegra 3 has been one of the fastest mobile processors on the market since it debuted last year, but it is now seeing increased competition form Qualcomm's Snapdragon S4 and Samsung's upcoming Exynos 4412. We already know that NVIDIA is working on their next generation of chips codenamed Wayne (Tegra 4), but those are not expected to appear in devices until the tail end of 2012 or early 2013.

Right now NVIDIA still wins 100% of the "marketing benchmarks" with their quad-core processor, but how will they continue to remain competitive and pick up design wins for the remainder of the year?

Last week at a HTC event in Seattle, Michael Rayfield, GM of NVIDIA's mobile business unit, shared some new details on the Tegra roadmap.

tegra roadmap 2012 630x346 Tegra 3+ to bring 1.7 GHz CPU, 1080p   displays, 25% faster GPU, and LTE to phones

Mr. Rayfield confirmed previous leaks that NVIDIA was