Kin, Smarthphone with NVidia Tegra Chip

Not only with the new concept, the presence of Microsoft and Sharp's smartphones design Kin are also installing a new map smartphones chip competition. Because, Kin One and Kin Two is the first line of phones that use chips made by Nvidia Tegra.



Tegra was introduced almost two years and is widely used in handheld devices including HD Zune, music player from Microsoft, and M1 from Samsung. But Tegra is never used on smartphones.

Nvidia, known as a powerful graphics chip maker, launched Tegra chip to compete with companies such as Qualcomm, Texas Instruments, and Intel. Tegra is claimed to provide high quality graphics with low power requirements on the phone. Tegra chip integrates an ARM-based processor, the core of the GeForce graphics chips and other components.

Nvidia also affirms its commitment to the future development of Tegra. Tegra chip 2 will be released in the fourth quarter of this year. The chip promised has high processing speed, up to four times of first Tegra chip and can play 1080p HD video. Smartphone with Tegra2 also will be released in the market will start from the end of the year.

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