NVIDIA Tegra - Intel Atom's Silver Bullet?

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It's official. The NVIDIA Tegra isn't just a figment of Intel's worst nightmare. It is now reality. Just a few hours ago, NVIDIAlaunched the Tegra at the trendy Bando 8 restaurant in the fantastically-corpulent Hsin Kong Mitsukoshi shopping mall.

The Tegra is an entirely new product for NVIDIA, a complete system-on-a-chip (SoC) for miniaturized computers called Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs). This sets the stage for a direct showdown between Intel, the CPU giant, and NVIDIA, the GPU giant; as Intel is going to reveal a similar product called the Intel Atom. Read on and find out.

Update : In this revision, we have just added a report on the official launch of the Intel Atom processor and its effect on the NVIDIA Tegra's chances of success.

Here's a quote from the article :-

"NVIDIA assured us that this was not a paper launch and that the three Tegra processors have been released to manufacturing and are available for purchase right now. In fact, they are confident that Tegra-based products (initially Tegra AXP smartphones) will be out by the end of the year. Unfortunately for NVIDIA, Intel Atom products are already available today. Is the battle over before it even begun?"

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