Nvidia Tegra is a mobile architecture that powers things such as the Zune HD and other small mobile devices. Well Nvidia is planning the Tegra 2 which will be twice as fast as the current version and will feature a dual-core Cortex A9 CPU.
They’re going to give us a sneek peak of this badboy at CES in january, and we’ll see it in devices such as the next-gen Nintendo DS, Zune HD 2, and netbooks of course (remember the mobinnova smartbook).
This new architecture will be fast enough for HD video and depending on the processor should be able to handle most computing tasks. And because of the mobile architecture it will also lead to increased battery life, just what we need in our netbooks.
If you thought the Intel Atom was small and energy efficient, take a look at this.
As you can see the Tegra is 10 times more energy efficient, and also about that much smaller.
via engadget
Th processor IS NOT AN ARM9. ARM9 is about 10 years old. The processor in the Tegra 2 is the Cortex-A9, which is a completely different product. Would the blogosphere please stop getting this wrong – you’ll just embarrass yourselves!
You’re partially correct, it’s a dual ARM Cortex-A9. Looks like Engadget had a typo (again)