Nvidia CEO: Android Best-Suited for Tablets
Nvidia CEO: Android Best-Suited for Tablets
Posted 05/31/2010 at 6:43pm
| by Pulkit Chandna
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Tablets are expected to hog all the limelight at this year's edition of Computex in Taipei. Nvidia is comfortably placed to tap the nearing wave of tablets as manufacturers are increasingly commissioning its Tegra 2 chip for their tablets; MSI and Asus have already announced Tegra-based tablets at Computex. So Nvidia is pretty much in the thick of the action.
Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang just gave media persons in Taipei an eyewitness account of all the action in the tablet market. He said that Windows 7 is unfit for tablets and smartbooks."Windows is too big and it's too full featured for smartbooks and tablets,” he told reporters. But he was all praise for Android, which he believes is best-suited for modern tablets. However, he acknowledged that Android is still far from being perfect and can do with improvements in graphics.
Although Huang may have a valid point, the unstinting praise stems from the fact that almost all tablets featuring the ARM-based Tegra 2 platform are likely to run Android.
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Peanut Fox
May 31, 2010 at 11:01pm
Considering that Microsoft was the first to use nVida's Tegra chip in a mass market product, I'd think he would be a little more bias in his view of the Windows platform as a tablet or netbook OS.
Keith E. Whisman
May 31, 2010 at 7:53pm
So if an Android OS is coded for an X86 processor then will the apps in the Android market still work or does it matter as long as it's the Anrdoid OS? Do Android Market Apps care what processor is being used such as X86 or PPC or Spark or Arm or what have you?
aviaggio
June 01, 2010 at 9:54am
You would need a version of the app that was specifically designed for x86. I'm not sure Android will ever make it's way to the x86 architecture tho.
Toady00
May 31, 2010 at 10:05pm
I'm not an Android Dev so I don't know for sure, but I would imagine
that the issue would be if the Java Virtual Machine supports the
architecture. For example you can write a Java program, and it will run
on Windows, Linux, and Mac, because each platform has a JVM that
converts the Java program into native calls for that particular
platform. I would imagine then that the devs would not have to worry
anout a specific platform. Google would have to make sure that the JVM
had support for whatever hardware it was running on.Again, I am no Java Dev, so if anyone has any corrections or just
something to add, please feel free.
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