NVidia’s Tegra chipset has gotten alot of press, but not alot of actual usage in recent months. Hexus talks to Mike Rayfield, general manager of NVidia’s mobile business unit, and finds out that NVidia has really staked the future of the company on the success of Tegra.
Graphics maker NVIDIA has so far spent $600 million on the development of its low-power chipset designed for use in smartphones and smartbooks.
When you consider that the total value of the company over the past year has only been around ten times that amount, and that there has yet to be a single device sold containing the chipset, it’s fair to say that NVIDIA has staked its future on Tegra.
Mobile devices are definately a quick-growing market and NVidia is seeing increased competition in the desktop space from Caustic, AMD, and Intel, so maybe it’s a good move from a business sense. I just hope that QuadroPlex and CUDA stick around.
via NVIDIA: Tegra is our future :: HEXUS.channel – Essential IT business intelligence.
