There’s a rumor going around today that NIVIDA’s next-generation Tegra chipset has been delayed and won’t be available until late August — which would mean that we wouldn’t see any of the new tablets and smartbooks based on the chipset until August or September at the earliest. That would include the Mobinnova Beam, Notion Ink Adam, and a number of…

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The Mobinnova Beam is an 8.9 inch smartbook that uses NVIDIA’s Tegra platform to deliver HD graphics without using much power. NVIDIA and Mobinnova have been showing off the Beam for months, but it hasn’t yet hit the streets. Earlier this year, I heard that it would eventually be available with either Windows CE or Google Android, but up up…

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We’ve been seeing the Mobinnova Beam smartbook show up at trade shows for months. Now it looks like you’re finally going to get a chance to purchase one soon. Mobinnova has teamed up with AT&T to offer the 3G-enabled smartbook powered by NVIDIA’s Tegra 2 platform. Tegra 2 combines a low power 1GHz ARM Cortex A9-based processor with high performance…

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NVIDIA says there are 50 or so different designs in the works for devices based on the new Tegra 2 platform. I got a chance to catch up with some reps from NVIDIA this afternoon, and they say some of those tablets and smartbooks could be available this year. Today Asus introduced a tablet prototype, making Asus the first big…

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The FCC has published a few (very few) documents related to the upcoming Mobinnova Beam smartbook. The Beam is a 10 inch mini-laptop with NVIDIA Tegra graphics. Up until recently it was known as the Mobinnova élan, but the company changed the name a few weeks ago and announced that the Smartbook would soon be available in the US. The…

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We already knew that Adobe was working with NVIDIA and Broadcom to enabled hardware acceleration for Flash Player 10.1. But sometimes it’s nice to see it in action. I’ve already highlighted videos showing netbooks with Intel Atom processors and NVIDIA ION graphics handling 1080p Flash video… but Blogeee dug up another video that shows even more hardware handling HD Flash…

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NVIDIA has been showing off a mini-laptop with an 8.9 inch display called the Mobinnova élan since this summer. The Mobinnova computer is one of the first laptops to use NVIDIA’s Tegra platform, which bundles an ARM-based processor with high performance graphics. The net result is a mini-laptop with excellent battery life that can run for 5 to 10 hours…

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