NVIDIA Tegra 3 Processor Powers Google’s $199 Nexus 7 Tablet
NVIDIA today announced that Nexus 7 from Google, the first $199 quad-core 7-inch tablet running on the newest version of Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean), features the NVIDIA Tegra 3 mobile processor. Driving Nexus 7 is the Tegra 3 processor, which features a unique 4-PLUS-1 quad-core architecture for outstanding performance and exceptional battery life. Tegra 3’s fifth battery saver core shines in everyday functions like email, social updates, watching movies and playing music, while each of the Tegra 3’s four main CPU cores progressively powers on only as needed for demanding tasks, like gaming.
Nexus 7 offers up to 8 hours of HD video playback, 10 hours book reading, 10 hours web browsing and 300 hours standby.
Running Jelly Bean, Nexus 7 features a 7-inch (1280 x 800) IPS screen, comes with either 8 GB or 16 GB of storage, 1 GB RAM, front camera, micro USB port and access to more than 600,000 apps, millions of songs and books, and thousands of movies on Google Play.
“Nexus 7 with Tegra 3 delivers a premium experience at a price consumers will absolutely love,” said Michael Rayfield, general manager of the Mobile business at NVIDIA. “We’re thrilled to work with Google as they create an innovative device that redefines the tablet market with quad-core performance, great battery life and the best of Google.”
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