More than a year after its first Shield tablet, Nvidia announced its second edition - the Shield Tablet K1, which is designed especially for gamers. Besides pretty decent specs, as you're about to see, the tablet is also competitively priced at USD 199, which should make gamers even happier. So what do you get for this money? First, like in the other Shield Tablet, you can stream games from a PC (with a compatible...

18 November 2015

Nvidia has revealed its 64-bit Tegra K1 chipset on its official blog and the launch of the product is expected to be later this year. The chipset is intended for mobile devices running on Android, including Android L as the company is now working on implementing it. The new chipset is a result of Nvidia's Project Denver as it features the custom designed dual-code Denver CPU clocked at 2.5GHz. It also integrates a...

13 August 2014

At the end of May Nvidia announced it is withdrawing from the smartphone market in order to focus on tablets and other devices that require the best hardware for optimum graphics performance and mainly gaming devices based on Android. The first and long-expected Shield Tablet by Nvidia is already a fact. This is an 8-inch slate with a 1920 x 1200 resolution of its IPS display. It also features the company's powerful...

23 July 2014

In a frank interview with CNET Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang shares the companies shift in marketing strategy and change of market focus. In general, NVIDIA plans to withdraw itself from the smartphone and tablet market but plans to stay in the mobile market focusing on games and cars, where visual computing is more important than that of smartphones and tablets. And visual computing and supercomputing technologies are...

23 May 2014

A day before the opening of CES 2014 Nvidia officially announced its latest SoC - the Tegra K1. It is said that it provides major improvements over its predecessor. One of these improvements is the 192-core Kepler GPU, whose architecture is equal to a desktop one. This means that the Tegra K1 will provide amazing graphics experience compared to the Tegra 4, which had a 72-core ULP GeForce GPU (impressive in its own...

6 January 2014

After several weeks of constant rumours and leakages, we finally see the NVIDIA Tegra Note announced. The tablet has gained much attention not only because it is the company's first tablet but also because it employs a different sales strategy. Instead of being rolled out to markets directly from NVIDIA, the Android powered device will be sold to different markets by partners of the company such as PNY, Oysters...

18 September 2013