The Toshiba AC100 is one of the first netbook-style devices to ship with Google Android installed. The operating system is typically installed on smartphones or tablets with touchscreen devices — not computers with keyboards and touchpads. The Toshiba AC100, on the other hand, looks like a netbook, with a 10 inch. 1024 x 600 pixel […]
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HTC, Motorola tablets could ship with NVIDIA Tegra 2 chips
HTC and Motorola are both rumored to be working on slate computers, but we haven’t heard many details about the hardware so far. Now DigiTimes reports that both companies have placed orders for NVIDIA’s Tegra 2 chipset. The Tegra 2 chip is a dual core processor with a graphics core capable of handling 3D video […]
Toshiba AC100 ultrathin Android netbook dissected
The Toshiba AC100 is one of the first Android powered mini-laptops powered by an NVIDIA Tegra 2 chip. The low power ARM-based chip combines the CPU and GPU onto a single chip and doesn’t take up a lot of space. It’s also a low power chip, which means it doesn’t generate a lot of heat […]
NVIDIA: Tegra tablets might ship by Christmas… or they might not
NVIDIA has apparently spent more than a billion dollars developing its low power, HD video-capable Tegra chipset. But aside from the Microsoft Zune, there haven’t really been any big name products with Tegra chips. But NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang says he hopes that will change soon, and that the company is hoping some new tablets […]
Malata SMB-A1011 Android tablet with NVIDIA Tegra spotted in the wild
It looks like we can add a tablet to the relatively small list of devices sporting NVIDIA Tegra 2 chips. Engadget spotted a 10 inch Android tablet from Malata called the SMB-A1011 which has NVIDIA’s latest low power mobile chip. If the Malata SMB-A1011 looks familiar, that’s because it appears to have an identical case […]
NVIDIA: New Tegra chips every year, Tegra 3, 4 on the way
Sure, I can count the number of existing or upcoming apps from major companies with NVIDIA Tegra 2 processors on two hands. But that hasn’t stopped NVIDIA from forging ahead with the next version of its Tegra chip… and the version after that. NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang says that the company is almost done with […]
Rumor: HTC tablet to feature NVIDIA Tegra 2, HD display, Android
There’ve been rumors going around for a little while that smartphone maker HTC wants in on the tablet game, and it makes sense since pretty much every consumer electronics company in the known universe appears to be bringing a tablet to market in the next year or so. Today Digitimes is adding fuel to the […]
Boxee Box up for pre-order, NVIDIA Tegra 2 chip replaced with Intel Atom CE4100
Earlier this year the folks at Boxee started showing off an unusually shaped set-top box designed to run the company’s media center software. I got a chance to check out an early prototype at CES and at the time it was sporting a low power NVIDIA Tegra 2 chip capable of playing 1080p HD video. […]
NVIDIA Tegra 2-based Toshiba AC100 gets benchmarked
The Toshiba AC100 is one of the first Google Android powered notebook-style devices to ship. It’s also one of the first products on the market with an NVIDIA Tegra 2 chipset. Sure, it might not actually be available in the US yet, but it’s shipping in Japan, and it should be coming to Europe soon […]
Toshiba AC100 Android netbook heading to the UK
The Toshiba AC100 smartbook is one of the first commercially available mini-laptops running Google’s Android operating system. And when I say commercially available, I mean you can pick one up in Japan. But it looks like Toshiba UK plans to offer the AC100 soon as well. The company has created a product page for the […]