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Nvidia’s Tegra 3 Tries to Save Battery in All Sorts of Different Ways

Ina Fried in Mobile on January 9 at 4:30 pm PT

Nvidia says its quad-core processor also can also reduce the power used in backlights, a major drain on mobile device batteries.

Solid Keyboard Elevates This Tablet, Though Software Lags

Walt Mossberg in Personal Technology on December 7, 2011 at 6:03 pm PT

The Android-based Transformer Prime tablet has a sturdy keyboard and dock, and is the first tablet to use a potent new processor called the Tegra 3. But it is weak on software and offers limited apps.

Nvidia Earnings, Revenue Nudge Past Estimates on Strong Graphics and Mobile Business

Ina Fried in Commerce on November 10, 2011 at 1:24 pm PT

The chipmaker came in just ahead of what analysts were expecting for the past quarter, and said to expect the current quarter to be roughly flat in both earnings and revenue.

Nvidia’s Quad-Core Tegra 3 Ready, Asus’ Transformer Prime Almost Ready

Ina Fried in Mobile on November 8, 2011 at 9:20 pm PT

Although the Nvidia processor is ready, the Asus tablet won’t hit the market until next month. Phones running the chip are expected next year.

Sprint and Motorola Renew Their Vows With Plans for High-End Photon 4G

Ina Fried in Mobile on June 9, 2011 at 10:09 am PT

The laptop dock-capable Photon 4G is one of 10 Motorola devices coming this year to Sprint, the two companies announced at an event in New York on Thursday.

Aiming to Power Ever More Complex Graphics, Nvidia Plans Quad-Core Mobile Chip This Year

Ina Fried in Mobile on February 15, 2011 at 4:00 pm PT

Not content to rest on its dual-core laurels, Nvidia said it will have a chip out later this year that combines four processing cores and 12-graphics chip cores to power, among other things, video with far better than HD resolution.

D@CES Today: Twitter, Nvidia, Microsoft in the Vegas Spotlight!

Kara Swisher in D at CES on January 7, 2011 at 10:00 am PT

First things first, for those emailing me frantically about getting into our D@CES onstage interview event later today at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas: We’re sold out and have a very long wait list. That said, people in Sin City tend to flake out, so if you show up at the Marcello Ballroom at the Venetian at 3 pm, you might snag a seat to see us grill some tech execs well done with a side of news.

D@CES: What Happens to Twitter's Dick Costolo in Vegas Stays on ATD

Kara Swisher in D at CES on December 15, 2010 at 5:10 am PT

Here comes our second D event at the Consumer Electronics Show, which is slated for January 6 to 9, 2011. D@CES will, natch, be focused on the consumer electronics arena, and the big trends impacting it. On the hot seat: Twitter CEO Dick Costolo, Nvidia co-founder and CEO Jen-Hsun Huang and Dean Hachamovitch, who heads the Internet Explorer team at Microsoft.

Nvidia CEO: Like iPad, “Magical” Android Tablets Will “Surprise and Delight”

John Paczkowski in News on November 12, 2010 at 3:15 am PT

Apple, Steve Jobs likes to say, works very hard to “surprise and delight” its customers with “magical” products. And so does Google, according to Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang, who lauded the company’s recent tablet efforts with some Jobsian descriptives Thursday.