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Tegra to make up half of Nvidia's business |
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Written by Peter Scott
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Wednesday, 17 June 2009 12:11 |
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In just a few years
Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang says Nvidia GPUs and Intel CPUs go along like
hotdogs and mustard, and that he expects Nvidia's Tegra to account for
half of the company's business in a few years.
Huang believes CPU-GPU co-processing is the way of the future, and that
Apple is showing the way forward, by using Nvidia's Geforce 9400 on its
Macbooks. In spite of that, Huang says Intel is still using subsidies
and market developments funds to keep Nvidia's Ion out of Atom-based
netbooks, which stand to benefit quite a bit more from such a chip than
more powerful notebooks.
More interestingly, Huang says that Tegra might represent half of
Nvidia's business in just a few years. Tegra is an ARM-based processor
with integrated Geforce graphics, and it is targeted at smartphones,
smartbooks, netbooks and PMP's.
This is quite a bold statement, as Tegra currently doesn't have that
many design wins, and it's not a major factor in Nvidia's revenue stream.
Huang obviously has an ace up his sleeve, courtesy of Redmond, and possibly even Cupertino.
More here.
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