Sin city: Chipmaker Nvidia showed off its newest Tegra mobile processor, its next thing in its expansion into tablets and smartphones and also unveiled a fresh hand-held game device.
The Tegra 4 chip, with four central processing cores, will be Nvidia's first to incorporate LTE technology for high-speed telecommunication networks, Chief Executive Jen-Hsun Huang said with a news conference in Las Vegas on Sunday before Gadgets Show.
He also introduced a different hand-held gaming device with a Tegra 4 chip and a built-in screen. Nvidia intends to flip it on to consumers, an exotic move with the chipmaker.
It, which he termed as Project Shield, runs Android games currently entirely on smartphones and tablets and may also stream video game titles from PCs.
"Everything you do using your Android device just works here," Huang said. "Here is the culmination of 5 numerous years of work."
With PC sales suffering due to economic uncertainty plus a growing consumer preference for tablets, Nvidia has staked its future on leveraging its graphics expertise to create high-performance processors for cellular phones.
Huang wouldn't say once the Tegra 4 chips or hand-held game devices could be available.
The organization makes inroads in tablets but competition from larger rival Qualcomm has some on Wall Street concerned this company may find it hard to keep its mobile business growing fast. Qualcomm already offers 4G technology rolling around in its chips.
Huang said Nvidia's new Tegra chip boasts improved image processing capabilities for digital camera models in phones and tablets. Huang also said the Tegra 4 chip lets tablets load websites faster than devices using rival chips.
Nvidia's previous Tegra 3 mobile processor is utilized in Google's Nexus 7, considered one of simply a couple of tablets to create inroads against Apple's iPads. The Tegra 3 chip can be found in Microsoft's recently launched Surface tablet.
On the event, Huang also introduced a cloud product referred to as the Nvidia Grid, a server and software product meant to remotely handle graphics computations for game titles rather then on consoles just like the Xbox in game-players' living rooms.
He explained Nvidia would sell the Nvidia Grid packages to companies enthusiastic about hosting and streaming cloud-based games.
"The Nvidia Grid is our first fully integrated system product," Huang said.
In November, Nvidia forecast revenue below expectations as a result of slowdown in tablet-processor shipments and a troubled PC market, but shares from the heart.} graphics chipmaker rose on the announcement of any quarterly dividend.
The Tegra 4 chip, with four central processing cores, will be Nvidia's first to incorporate LTE technology for high-speed telecommunication networks, Chief Executive Jen-Hsun Huang said with a news conference in Las Vegas on Sunday before Gadgets Show.
He also introduced a different hand-held gaming device with a Tegra 4 chip and a built-in screen. Nvidia intends to flip it on to consumers, an exotic move with the chipmaker.
It, which he termed as Project Shield, runs Android games currently entirely on smartphones and tablets and may also stream video game titles from PCs.
"Everything you do using your Android device just works here," Huang said. "Here is the culmination of 5 numerous years of work."
With PC sales suffering due to economic uncertainty plus a growing consumer preference for tablets, Nvidia has staked its future on leveraging its graphics expertise to create high-performance processors for cellular phones.
Huang wouldn't say once the Tegra 4 chips or hand-held game devices could be available.
The organization makes inroads in tablets but competition from larger rival Qualcomm has some on Wall Street concerned this company may find it hard to keep its mobile business growing fast. Qualcomm already offers 4G technology rolling around in its chips.
Huang said Nvidia's new Tegra chip boasts improved image processing capabilities for digital camera models in phones and tablets. Huang also said the Tegra 4 chip lets tablets load websites faster than devices using rival chips.
Nvidia's previous Tegra 3 mobile processor is utilized in Google's Nexus 7, considered one of simply a couple of tablets to create inroads against Apple's iPads. The Tegra 3 chip can be found in Microsoft's recently launched Surface tablet.
On the event, Huang also introduced a cloud product referred to as the Nvidia Grid, a server and software product meant to remotely handle graphics computations for game titles rather then on consoles just like the Xbox in game-players' living rooms.
He explained Nvidia would sell the Nvidia Grid packages to companies enthusiastic about hosting and streaming cloud-based games.
"The Nvidia Grid is our first fully integrated system product," Huang said.
In November, Nvidia forecast revenue below expectations as a result of slowdown in tablet-processor shipments and a troubled PC market, but shares from the heart.} graphics chipmaker rose on the announcement of any quarterly dividend.
