When Jen-Hsun Huang, co-founder and CEO of nVidia announced that he expects to see Tegra capturing 50% of nVidia's revenue within the next couple of years, a lot of people thought that this is a smoke screen to sway the attention from its battles against AMD and Intel.
Incredibly how it may sound, from what we are hearing nVidia is dead on achieving its course. With a very aggressive approach, the company managed to sway not just Microsoft with the Zune HD multimedia player [based on Tegra APX 2600], but also a long-time IBM and ATI customer - Nintendo.
Launched in 2004, the Nintendo DS and its two latter redesigns [DS Lite and DSi] sold in massive 111.49 million units. With almost 40 million handheld consoles sold in United States alone, Nintendo DS owns 68.3% of worldwide market share.
As the time passed by, Nintendo started to work on the successor of its handheld console with a debut planned for late 2010 [Tokyo Game Show?]. According to our confidential sources, Nintendo is going to use Tegra System-on-Chip processor for the successor of DS/DSi handheld console. Unlike the current design, nVidia offered a single-chip proposal to Nintendo, a company famous for keeping the hardware platform absolutely simple.
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Awesome, can't wait to see how this turns out. I've seen Nvidia's newest Tegra revision up close and personal. The specs are quite good, enough to run Windows 7 with no problem and some minor games, all on a small little motherboard+chip that fits in the palm of your hand.
Now that they are moving to 40nm, it's going to get a much needed boost with a better GPU core and a better ARM core. Currently it's using the ARM 11 and 7. Should be moving to the ARM A8 which is a lot better.
The beast that is tegra. Nintendo will probably take something like Tegra and the new PSP will probably have a brute force processor, something like snapdragon that clocks at 1.5ghz.
I mean come on Sony its time for the psp2. The phone i'm going to get in 3 months has 3 times the processing power of the psp.(HTC HD2)(1GHZ Snapdragon processor)(PSP 333mhz)
Aside from a bettery cpu/gpu I have some other important expectations.
Must be able to play existing DS games which implies that the new "DS" will essentially have two screens like the others. Double if not...triple the internal memory for system performance. Maybe 1gb of ram would do. Considering the internal ram for the psp is 64mb.
SD card support and game launching. Like the current dsi but with added game launching. Maybe nintendo will get that working on existing dsi platform beforehand.
Better web browser with full flash/lite support. Considering the existing dsi browser cant run flash lite (could but it is up to opera to add it) as well as the psp cant run sites like youtube. I would expect the cpu power and higher memory of the new ds to be capable.
Ahh yes, new handhelds on the way. Very exciting stuff. Looking forward to this indeed.
Hope we get some stuff on the psp2 and NDS2 this e3 as its long over due for both.
I just bought a DSi! I don't want another damn handheld this early!