Nvidia to Announces Tegra 2 at CES

Posted 12/16/2009 at 10:00am | by Paul Lilly

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It took Microsoft's Zune HD player to really showcase what Tegra was capable of, and rather than wait for other devices to do the same, Nvidia appears ready to move forward and announce Tegra 2 next month at CES.

"At CES we are going to make a major announcement about the Tegra family," said Micheal Hara, senior vice president of investor relations and communications at Nvidia. "It is highly possible that we will see some very interesting form factors coming out at the same time. [There will be products] shown by our partners using the next-generation Tegra device."

Hara went on to promise that partners will be rolling out Tegra 2-based tablet PCs, smartbooks, netbooks, and MIDs throughout the first half of next year, followed by major roll-outs of smartphones in the second half of 2010.

There isn't a lot known about Tegra 2 at this point, but if we're to take high-ranking Nvidia officials at their word, we can expect Tegra 2 to be at least twice as powerful as its predecessor. The system-on-chip (SoC) will feature a dual-core ARM GPGPU and other powerful graphics technologies yet to be announced.