Qualcomm and Nvidia

Nvidia is ready for solutions based on Intel‘s solution Ivy Bridge and does so with its configuration from the mobile segment of 28Nm.

Although Intel has set its reference chart with her Ivy Bridge, this does not mean that the direct competitors of the American home to decline to place their proprietary solutions, in fact, as usual, Intel is trying to impose his point of view in strategic technology solutions.

The major competitor of Intel, as Nvidia or AMD, on the contrary try to convince manufacturers of the goodness of their proprietary solutions. We had already given evidence of the positions of manager of Nvidia’s solutions for voice and mobile laptops, Rene Haas.

The idea for Nvidia is that they suggest an update to the current generation of graphic world assuming the arrival of new chips that can provide a performance boost of at least 30% compared to Intel solutions at home, or rather of its platforms Sandy Bridge .

We have to wait to see the next mobile platform values ??of this type, in fact, we expect for the next generation of graphics processors performance values ??of this type. Nvidia believes that the first platform of this type will be available, at worst, the end or the beginning of the third quarter of next year, ie March April 2012.

By contrast, Qualcomm intends to play a key role in the segment of the graphics tablet market. In fact, thanks to the acquisition of mobile line of ATI, Qualcomm has all the strength and the ability to affect this particular segment collided with companies such as Apple or ARM.

The new ATI Adreno with Qualcomm has every intention to acquire a key role along with Snapdragon, Texas Instruments OMAP – uses the PowerVR graphics and continues to develop at about DirectX 11 – or Nvidia Tegra for the development of a variant of DirectX .

In fact, according to several indications, the variant of Adreno DirectX version 9 is stopped and, at least at the moment, there is no migration to next-generation solutions.

Certainly, companies such as ARM and Apple will not give up easily on their shares so that the two companies have already plan to take on new diferse configitrazioni iPad or graphics section of the ARM processors.