Nvidia chips confirmed that no Grey until 2013

You can get this news does not make your hair like hooks or do youhurt the kidneys after a sudden rush of adrenaline, but it's possible it will cause a noticeable impact on the acceptance of Tegra 3 as aprocessing platform for mobile devices range medium-high.

During the conference by Nvidia to socialize on the results of the first quarter of fiscal 2013 (which does not coincide with the regular calendar before surprised more than necessary), the companyindicated that it plans to launch its Grey processors (Tegra 3 withintegrated LTE) in the remainder of the year, so that manufacturersof phones and tablets should wait for some time in 2013 beforegetting down to work. In any case, Nvidia is working with othercompanies in the development of hardware Tegra 3 with external modules LTE to keep up in this race. The first products should be available in late years in the U.S..

According to Nvidia, the absence of LTE support built into the SoCis not a big problem because these networks are implementedvirtually alone in the U.S. in bulk. And it's true. What is not said is that hardware manufacturers choose fully integrated solutions as a matter of cost and time savings, and if another company can offer a magic chip really "all-in-one", they will get him to the detriment of its platform. Need more customers for Qualcomm? We shall see. From the outset, rumors originating from China placed first Tegra chipswith LTE 4 in the third quarter of 2013 ...