You can not deny that the portable players Microsoft Zune are living under the shadow of IPod and its many counterparts, but the message NVIDIA may withdraw from the shadow of these portable devices. A major manufacturer of graphics solutions announced that the next iteration of the player Microsoft, a Zune HD, will be equipped with dual-core processor Tegra.

According to the source, one of the two nuclei will take care of the operating system and graphics functions will be transferred to GPU NVIDIA GeForce. Power consumption of the chip is very small, not least because the smart software disables the unused part of the chip. That is, when listening to music of the graphics chip will be disabled until it is not necessary.

Do APX2600 SoC is separate blocks for HD encoding and decoding, 2D-graphics, 3D-graphics, conventional imaging and for the sound, each of which can be switched on and disabled independently of the others, depending on the current needs of the system. Unfortunately, the power processor ─ only part of the problem, and if the operating system Microsoft will not be able to do such work, in which the OLED-screen will not consume a significant share of power, all the tricks will be in vain.

The upcoming Zune player will not be the only device on the basis of Tegra. NVIDIA said that currently in the design is about 50 different devices, which will use this chip, including a number of smart phones and PDAs.