NVIDIA has promoted the Tegra family of processors, a small computer-on-a-chip, which is minute than a US dime (10-cent piece), designed from the ground up to allow the "visual PC experience" on a next generation of mobile computing devices.


"Creating Tegra was a very big challenge. Our vision was to create a platform that will enable the second personal computer revolution – which will be mobile centric, with devices that last days on a single charge, and yet has the web, high definition media, and computing experiences we've come to expect from our PC," said Jen-Hsun Huang, president and CEO at Nvidia. "Shrinking down a 50 watt PC architecture will not create the discontinuity this industry needs. The culmination of nearly 1,000 man years of engineering, Tegra is a completely ground-up computer-on-a-chip architecture that consumes 100 times less power. Mobile internet and computing devices built with Tegra are going to be magical."

The Tegra was even before developed for the smart phone which was named as APX 2500 and the latest one created is called as 650 CPU and it is the second creation in the Tegra line, allowing the next generation of Windows Mobile smart phones. With the launch of this new processor, the NVIDIA Tegra products will reach consumers towards the end of the year.

As due to rising market demand for mobile Internet access, NVIDIA launched the APX 2500 computer-on-a-chip which targeted the Windows smart phones and handsets previous year. Recognizing that mobile Internet access usages will take place not just on smart phones and handsets but also in computer devices. NVIDIA declared that the Tegra structure. On behalf of first products to be targeted is the MID and portable device space, it is likely to get incorporated capabilities similar to the APX 2500 with NVIDIA’s graphics expertise, an ARM core, HD video, and advanced power management," said Ian Lao, senior analyst at In-Stat.

NVIDIA Tegra is mixed processor structural design with many processors, each architected for a exact class of tasks – an 800 MHz ARM CPU, a HD video processor, an imaging processor, an audio processor, and an ultra-low power GeForce GPU. With this varied ultra-low-power processor design, NVIDIA Tegra processors reach up to 10 times the power efficiency of existing products in battery-operated computer systems running compelling visual computing applications.

The NVIDIA Tegra 650 process media files for almost 130 hours audio, 30 hours HD video playback; and many more High-Definition devices; Its hardware also support the Web 2.0 applications for a true desktop-class internet experience; display and even support full HD (1080p) HDMI, the WSXGA+ LCD and CRT, and NTSC/PAL TV-Out; directly support the Wi-Fi, disk drives, keyboard, mouse, and other peripherals and a complete Board Support Package (BSP) to enable fast times to market for Windows Mobile-based designs.