NVIDA’s Tegra 2 processor has been running the streets since being released on the Motorola Xoom. Google made the processor the preferred Honeycomb chipset, and other smartphones followed the trend by upgrading to the dual core power it offered. Times have changed and Google is now moving on to another major chipset company for the next generation of their software.
Texas Instruments is being selected to offer their OMAP dual core processor as the go to chipset for devices that’ll run Google’s next generation Android 4.0 Aka Ice Cream Sandwich.
“What we do is pick our partners, a semiconductor partner, an operator, and an OEM and then combine them all together. This is the device that engineers have on their desk when they come in the morning.”
This is great news because TI makes incredible processors and so hopefully we’ll see some improvements in our next round of super-phones. This is sad news for NVIDA though, because Google’s sponsorship brought them a lot of costumers and attention, with that gone, they might not be as relevant in the mobile space anymore.
What are your thoughts on this chipset switch? Can you hear that? NVIDA’s stocks dropping.
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