Nexus 9 will come with Tegra Denver 64bit K1

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witeken

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Exactly what AMD is doing with its APUs, GCN, Mantle, HSA, HuMA, etc etc.
They both are leveraging their GPU IPs ;)

I have mentioned AMD because both SoCs (Mullins and K1) are high-end GPU centric and also very expensive(in relationship to other ARM SoCs). They are not meant for high volume low cost devices. I believe Intel will follow the same road soon, 14nm process is not suitable for low cost SoCs in 2015. 28nm TSMC SoFIA enyone ??

28nm SoFIA has nothing to do with 14nm being suitable for low-cost SoCs. It has to do with the integrated modem. When they're done, SoFIA will be on the most bleeding edge node. Remember Intel heavily talking about $/transistor at their IM'13? That's because those low-end SoCs require that.
 

witeken

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Obviously he's not talking about the GPU.

Intel and Nvidia are actually pretty similar in this regard. Until only recently, both companies had rather lackluster performance in the tablet space, despite their respective strengths.

I haven't seen devices nor benchmarks, so I didn't include K1 in my statement, but Moorefield has a very nice GPU in any case.
 

rgallant

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just saying ,just a noob

I think nv had to pay 3rd parties for the sand to product cost.
and yet you don't see nv r & d cost to have that chip made by a fab whether it's 1 chip or 100 million.

intel has cost but too, but it cost them not to make full use of their fabs and personal so not the same I would think.
if both nv and intel gave away 100k of $20.00 chips to a new oem .
-who's cost would be greater ?

-would intels cost be that much if their making 50 million chips of those chips and the mind share [product wins] saves them marketing $$$$.