Posted on Tuesday, December 14 2010 @ 12:28 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck
Sources at notebook players
told DigiTimes that NVIDIA's Tegra 2 platform is getting into the spotlight as Acer, ASUS, Toshiba, Samsung and other manufacturers will all release Tegra 2-based tablets. If things go well NVIDIA's Tegra 2 chip may end up in 50 percent of ARM-based tablets in 2011.
Affected by the strong sales of Apple iPad, consumers have started to learn to accept non-Wintel platform and are helping demand for platforms such as Android/ARM to grow.
Tegra 2's strong graphics performance and supports for Adobe Flash and 3D games are the drivers for brand vendors and tablet PC makers to decide to adopt the platform; meanwhile, Nvidia is also offering price discounts in the hopes to boost up its market momentum, the sources noted.
