Microsoft confirms Nvidia ‘Tegra’ chip for Zune HD
Microsoft has confirmed that the Nvidia “Tegra” chip is inside the upcoming Zune HD, a big win for Nvidia. This was reported earlier at Engadget and follows reports earlier last week. Legit Reviews got some face time with Tegra one year ago this month, so be sure to check out our coverage of Tegra here.
Tegra is the first processor Nvidia has built for power-frugal handheld devices, a major departure from the large, power-hungry graphics processors that it sells to the gaming rig and workstation markets. The system-on-a-chip (SOC) uses less than 0.5 watts of power, an attribute the main Tegra processor inherits from its power-stingy ARM parentage. (And a tiny fraction of the 50-watt-plus ratings of the chipmaker’s desktop graphics silicon.) The defining feature of the Tegra SOC, however, is the Nvidia GeForce graphics chip.
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