Not to worry: its future eight- and 10-inch capacitive tablets, which will be announced at CES, are going to be powered by an NVIDIA Tegra 2 CPU and run Android 3.0.
Among a range of improvements, including an 8-megapixel camera with burst mode (instead of the Grand X's dowdy five with no burst) and 1GB of RAM (instead of 512MB), the biggest change is that processor: out goes the old NVIDIA Tegra 2 and in comes a Medfield Z2460.
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Nvidia cited Tegra 2 weakness as one factor for its substantial revenue softness.
Nvidia recently showcased Tegra 2 super chip at CES 2011 at Las Vegas.
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The star of that internal show is undoubtedly NVIDIA's Tegra 2 system-on-chip.
It's also stated that the world's first CDMA iPhone will be manufactured by Pegatron Technology, which we caught just last week dabbling in some of NVIDIA's Tegra 2-based wares.
The Android device shares many of the same specifications as the larger A500, including a Tegra 2 processor from NVIDIA and the tablet-optimized 3.0 (Honeycomb) version of Android.
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And there are even fewer that have such a demanding overhead while running in the background -- which happens to be NVIDIA's big selling point for Tegra 2, that it allows you to multitask without ever getting bogged down.
Tegra 2 was one of the most anticipated product launches from Nvidia in the beginning of 2011.
The announcement of Project Denver was one of the more significant announcements from Nvidia, however another key announcement was the introduction of the next generation mobile computing chip Tegra 2.
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