1. CNET – Nvidia is eying a market for inexpensive dual-core smartphones that underprice the iPhone 4S by 4 or 5 times. The “1,000 RMB phone” in China, will use Nvidia’s dual-core Tegra 2 processor paired with a 3G modem. RMB 1,000 is about 80 percent less than the price of an iPhone 4S, which currently retails for RMB 4,988 in China.
Quad-core Tegra 3 production is ramping now and Nvidia expects 50 percent growth in its Tegra business quarter to quarter. The Tegra 3 powers the Asus Transformer Prime tablet. More tablets with Tegra 3 are coming. Huang also intimated that HTC would bring out a quad-core phone. Information about other phones, such as the LG X3, have leaked separately.
2. The Verge – Nvidia quad-core Tegra 3 smartphones are right around the corner.
Nvidia’s Icera acquisition will also bear fruit relatively soon: the company’s new integrated 3G / 4G LTE system-on-chip, codename Grey, will be headed towards devices this year.
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