NVIDIA Tegra To See eBook Reader Action In 2010
October 28 2009 Categorized Under: Entertainment, netbooks Tags; 2010, CES, ebook reader, MID, MSI, netbook, nvidia, tegra one Commented
MSI simply cannot stay away from the hot market that eBooks are a part of right now. So they are coming in strong with the NVIDIA Tegra powering the way. The chairman of the company (Joseph Hsu) let announced that MSI is indeed working on a Tegra-based device. Details are scanty as nothing else has been revealed. But the Tegra can mean a lot of things.
Using the Tegra is almost overkill for a simple eBook reader. So it might not be all that simple. The Tegra is powerful enough crunch out HD video, eye-candy graphics and more. So MSI may be planning something that is not as long lasting as an eBook but is way more powerful and multi-tasking capable than the likes of Kindle or Nook. It might even be an eBook reading centric MID with extra long battery life. Now that would be interesting.
The chairman has said that there are certain problems that are waiting to be fixed and hence the company is looking at an early 2010 launch. May be we will see a pre-production unit or something at CES this year. [read]
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