NVIDIA Tegra gets Android support

Posted on Tuesday, February 17 2009 @ 20:44 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck

NVIDIA unveiled its working with Google to get its Tegra processor into Android based smartphones:

"We welcome Nvidia's support of Android on Tegra," Andy Rubin, Google's senior director of mobile platforms, said in a statement.

Since spring of last year, Nvidia has been talking up Tegra as a chip aimed exclusively at Windows Mobile smartphones. Not anymore. "By supporting Android, manufacturers and operators can now easily use a Tegra processor to build mobile phones," Nvidia said in a statement.

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