[Ars] Tegra 4i benchmarks are in!

[soccerballtux]

The Blackphone was going to go with a different SoC, until NVidia threw a ton of free developer time at them in return for using a Tegra 4i... That kind of desperation is pretty telling.

what did they develop with that time?

 

[Exophase]

what did they develop with that time?

NTMBK might know better but that could mean that they helped them design the board the SoC went on..

 

[Roland00Address]

You have really no clue, huh?
Since the introduction of Fermi in 2010 nVidia's margins have been rising. At the same time their Tegra business went massiv up. Tegra had never margins "above" coperate margins. And nVidia hit a record gross margins result last year while Tegra hit a bottom in revenue...

How exactly "failed" nVidia in the consumer market when yet they had a record revenue and gross margins year?

You should get your facts right, really.

I honestly do not know how this fits in for or against but.

Nvidia could not make motherboards chipsets for any core product according to intel.... The core products with integrated graphics started coming out in 2010. This was the same time frame (with a difference of 3 months) that the 400 series graphics came out, and core 2 duos and quads were still highly successful for 2010 and some of 2011.

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The motherboard chipset team became the tegra chip team.

Are the margins on the old motherboards chipsets higher or lower than tegra? I know the potential for growth is higher with tegra for motherboard chipsets is a shrinking business, but how much money does nvidia used to make on motherboards vs how much they make on tegra.

 

[soccerballtux]

NTMBK might know better but that could mean that they helped them design the board the SoC went on..

that makes the most sense

NV reallyhas their head screwed on straight wrt developer relations

 

[NTMBK]

bog?

"Bog standard"- English slang for plain, ordinary, run of the mill, off the shelf.

 

[NTMBK]

what did they develop with that time?

I was basing this on a quote from the article- though re-reading it, I think I may have read a bit too much into it The quote in question was:

There’s one thing that’s a bit out of the norm in the Blackphone’s kit—a 2GHz Nvidia Tegra 4i quad-core system-on-chip. Weir-Jones said part of the reason was that Nvidia was more willing than some of the other SoC vendors to work with a small startup—another SoC had originally been chosen for the phone, but the Blackphone’s engineering team was informed that the manufacturer was about to stop production. Weir-Jones said that Nvidia, which has marketed its Tegra chips mostly for tablets but developed the 4i specifically for phones, was quick to step up.

This is why I shouldn't post things a day later based on an article I skim read :awe: Sorry guys.