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NVIDIA CEO Sees Netbooks and Tablets Merging into Leisure Computers
This week is the Netbook Summit, where lots of folks with an interest in Netbooks will gather and talk about, well, Netbooks. I think that’s the agenda. But I’m guessing Tablets and Slates will be on their mind as well, seeing as some folks think that the iPad is the beginning of the end of Netbooks.
NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang knows that he has a lot of folks paying attention to what his company is doing with the Tegra platform and what it offers for Netbooks, Tablets, and mobile phones. Laptop Mag has a pre-conference interview with Jen-Hsun Huang in which he says he doesn’t see Tablet/Slates killing off Netbooks but instead sees the two devices merging in the future to form a class of leisure computers.
It’s a far ranging interview with lots of CEO speak that hedges some bets around the edges, but it is an interesting glimpse into what we might hear from NVIDIA in the next few days. Intriguingly when asked about the Tegra Tablet vs. the iPad he offers a lot of “hope:”
I hope what people say about Tegra 2 tablets is: “It’s a lot lighter!” I hope what they say is: “Man, those graphics are really snappy.” I hope what they say is: “I can go to every single website in the world.” Because it’ll run Flash, it’ll run Sliverlight, it’ll run HTML5.
I think that hoping comes from the fact that NVIDIA has to depend on partners to make that hoping turn into a reality.
Dan
05/24/2010 at 7:26 am
Okay, NVIDIA, I can see you are chasing the money by going after high volume consumer targeted equipment. Where is the TabletPC for the rest of us that bought into the productive format in the mid 2000’s and still want to CREATE things like documents, websites, and test reports?
What I want is either a 3/4 size TC1100 or a full size Motion LS800 SLATE with an active digitizer, dual core processor, 4GB of RAM (or a provision for more some day), 160 GB SSD, and 8 hour battery life.
Dan