Nvidia wants sub-£130 Tegra 3 tablets out this summer
Working to make fondleslabs cheaper
Chip maker Nvidia this week promised it will bring the price of its Tegra 3 hardware down sufficiently to see Android tablets packing the chip hit price points as low as $199 (£125).
The company's CEO, Jen-Hsun Huang, insisted such budget Tegra 3 slates will be available this summer, the New York Times reports.
This perhaps adds weight to rumours that a powerful 7in Asus and Google tablet is in the works. Some say the collaboration will be announced this May.
Huang also talked up the tantalising prospect of Tegra 3-based Windows 8 tablets.
“Android hasn’t developed as I’d hoped,” he confessed.
“For many people, though, work is still the primary reason to have a computer. They want Windows to work well, they want Outlook to work well. A tablet running Windows 8 with Tegra could be very nice.” ®
COMMENTS
Typo in your opening sentence. You presumably meant "...hit price points as low as $199 (£199)."
Re: Still has not got the memo
But that's a 'Consumer' version of office. Whatever that is.
Re: Still has not got the memo
"Office and a browser "
'Cos Office on a tablet is SO productive
Re: The right time to announce this
> it causes customers to hold off purchasing your current product
Except for Windows 8/Metro where punters are stocking up on Windows 7 to avoid getting Metro thrust down their throats.
But, yes, you are correct, up to a point. Right through from the 80s Microsoft's marketing has been centered around 'Vaporware'. Whenever a competitor announced a new product that was available now, Microsoft would announce that 'our much better product will be available real soon now' as they sat down to write it.
In the days our product replacement cycles that were 3 to 5 years this worked well. Businesses would wait for MS so they could evaluate both and choose. Of course the competitor went bankrupt with no sales while everyone waited for months or years.
Now, with product replacement cycles (for phones and tablets) counted in months or quarters vaporware simply doesn't work. By the time WOA tablets arrive that match the features of, say, iPad2 (with the price above iPad3), the market will have moved to using a mixed iOS/OSX or Android/Ubuntu system where the phone docks to a monitor or TV and tablets are passe.
