LG takes on Samsung, integrates NVIDIA Tegra 2 into its smartphones
By siliconindia   |   Wednesday, 08 September 2010, 15:39 IST   |    1 Comments
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LG takes on Samsung, integrates NVIDIA Tegra 2 into its smartphones
Bangalore: LG has revealed that it will adopt NVIDIA's Tegra 2 to power its next generation of mobile devices. The news comes in less than a day's time after Samsung announced about its ARM Cortex-A9 chip. Tegra 2 includes the world's first dual-core CPU, which powers through complex tasks to achieve significant leaps in performance. LG will integrate the Tegra 2 into its forthcoming Optimus series of smartphones, due to debut before the end of 2010, to pose a competition to its counterparts. Like Samsung's Orion chip, the Tegra 2 is fabricated on a 45nm process using a version of ARM's Cortex-A9 dual-core processor design. The Tegra 2 and the Orion chip share the same feature set as well. Both the processors in Tegra 2 clock in at 1Ghz, offering up to a 200 percent increase in browsing performance as well as a 500 percent improvement in gaming performance. LG claims this generation leap in performance will offer console-quality gaming to its next generation of smartphones. The main differentiating aspect between Samsung Orion and Tegra 2 is their integrated GPU. However, the performance of the two pretty similar. The Tegra 2 is powered by NVIDIA's graphics technology, while the Samsung incorporates PowerVR. In the Tegra, NVIDIA delivers OpenGL ES 2.0 graphics with programmable pixel and vertex shaders. Like the PowerVR core in Samsung's chip, the NVIDIA chip is capable of 1080p H.264 video encoding and decoding, and will output video at 1080p over HDMI. It also sports a true dual-display capability. LG is just one among the many hardware makers looking forward to use the Tegra 2 when it launches later this year. The Korean company may be NVIDIA's marquee signing to showcase the power of its next-gen flagship mobile chip.

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