NVIDIA Tegra Architecture

[wco81]

Maybe they'll downplay the Tegra 4 devices and play up the K1.

 

[xpea]

We can all agree that if those clock speeds are correct, it's not a Tegra 4i.
There's probably something wrong with the Verge's article.

Nonetheless, models with the Tegra 4i should be announced within a few weeks during MWC.

seems that Stuff.tv has more information:
mwc-2014/lg-officially-reveals-g2-mini/news
it's T4i at 1.7GHz for Latin America market. Still odd, the speed looks very low...

 

[ams]

seems that Stuff.tv has more information:
mwc-2014/lg-officially-reveals-g2-mini/news
it's T4i at 1.7GHz for Latin America market. Still odd, the speed looks very low...

Is that the max speed with all four CPU cores running?

 

[DSC]

Tegra Note 7 getting Android 4.4.2 KitKat update OTA now, Nvidia is pretty good when it comes to updating their Android devices unlike some other companies.

 

[wco81]

Hmm, I thought I read that HTC was blaming NV for the delay in updating to the latest KitKat on one of their devices.

 

[Deleted member 13524]

Tegra Note 7 getting Android 4.4.2 KitKat update OTA now, Nvidia is pretty good when it comes to updating their Android devices unlike some other companies.

Maybe their devices with 1 year-old SoCs, but I know for a fact that nVidia has cockblocked the OEMs from upgrading any Tegra 3 device to KitKat.
A similar thing happened with Tegra 2.

 

[xpea]

Tegra Note 7 getting Android 4.4.2 KitKat update OTA now, Nvidia is pretty good when it comes to updating their Android devices unlike some other companies.

we can say whatever we want regarding NV marketing but the truth is that Android support for Tegra SoCs have been stellar. Look at SHIELD for example, nearly monthly updates with nice features added and bug fixes. IMHO, they are the golden standard

 

[Alexko]

we can say whatever we want regarding NV marketing but the truth is that Android support for Tegra SoCs have been stellar. Look at SHIELD for example, nearly monthly updates with nice features added and bug fixes. IMHO, they are the golden standard

I think we have a different notion of gold standard.

HTC blames the lack of HTC One X and X+ updates on chip maker Nvidia. It no longer supports the Tegra 3 and is instead focusing on its newer Tegra 4 and Tegra K1 processors.

http://www.techradar.com/news/phone...all-new-flagship-phones-for-two-years-1225043

 

[xpea]

I think we have a different notion of gold standard.
http://www.techradar.com/news/phone...all-new-flagship-phones-for-two-years-1225043

In the Android world, NV is the golden standard, like it or not.
and HTC is full of bullsh*t, as usual when it comes to updates (too many bad stories to count them). I have kitkat on my T3 Nexus 7 few weeks after it was announced. Tegra Note 7 is on kitkat too. SHIELD too. Who is doing better ?

 

[DSC]

What is Nexus 7 2012? Tegra 3, had KitKat upgrade months ago with drivers.

Don't believe the lies of HTC, they're a lazy bunch putting up excuses to cover their incompetence.

 

[xpea]

What is Nexus 7 2012? Tegra 3, had KitKat upgrade months ago with drivers.

Don't believe the lies of HTC, they're a lazy bunch putting up excuses to cover their incompetence.

yeah Nexus 7 2012 is with Tegra3 and it got kitkat at same time as Nexus4

+1000 on HTC

 

[Alexko]

In case you’re wondering how the Nexus 7 (2012) got KitKat with its Tegra 3 chipset, it’s because inside it is the T30L. The HTC One X and One X+ use the AP33 and AP37 respectively. It’s unclear why, but NVIDIA is supporting the T30L better than the AP3x, leading to this debacle.

http://www.gsmarena.com/htc_is_looking_into_updating_the_us_htc_one_x_to_android_4_4-news-7826.php

 

[Ailuros]

http://www.gsmarena.com/htc_is_looking_into_updating_the_us_htc_one_x_to_android_4_4-news-7826.php

Considering the link is about a week old I'm wondering where and why HTC is to blame. Other than that it's NV that needs desperately any kind of Tegra design wins at this stage and not the manufacturers depend in any way on NVIDIA, so its fanbase might want to be a bit more discreet with issues like that since it's rather embarassing.

 

[xpea]

http://www.gsmarena.com/htc_is_looking_into_updating_the_us_htc_one_x_to_android_4_4-news-7826.php

Again, I don't believe HTC that lied so many times in the past regarding the updates. They always find excuses, blaming others for their incompetence.
AP33/AP37/T30L all use the same CPU/GPU/drivers, so it should be no problem...

 

[DSC]

http://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2014/02/21/tegra-note-connected/

 

[ams]

Again, I don't believe HTC that lied so many times in the past regarding the updates. They always find excuses, blaming others for their incompetence. AP33/AP37/T30L all use the same CPU/GPU/drivers, so it should be no problem...

Yeah, it is obviously not very logical to suggest that NVIDIA "blocked" a partner from adding KitKat support. If HTC really really wanted KitKat OS support for older products (and that is debatable in the first place because it would take time and money to do it, and newer products are already designed and promoted with KitKat in mind), then they surely would have tried to work with NVIDIA to get it done.

Anyway, this type of article is nothing new. Last year there was an article about "Lack of support from Qualcomm forced HTC to pull One S Android 4.2 update": http://androidandme.com/2013/07/new...-forced-htc-to-pull-one-s-android-4-2-update/ , mainly because there was an apparent lack of additional support for the aging Snapdragon S3 chipset for the latest Android update (the S4 variant was much easier to update in comparison due to more forward-looking software support).

 

[ams]

http://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2014/02/21/tegra-note-connected/

Is this the first commercial product to make use of the Icera i500 4G LTE modem?

 

[DSC]

Either this or that LG phone with the Tegra 4i.

 

[xpea]

Yeah, it is obviously not very logical to suggest that NVIDIA "blocked" a partner from adding KitKat support. If HTC really really wanted KitKat OS support for older products (and that is debatable in the first place because it would take time and money to do it, and newer products are already designed and promoted with KitKat in mind), then they surely would have tried to work with NVIDIA to get it done.

Anyway, this type of article is nothing new. Last year there was an article about "Lack of support from Qualcomm forced HTC to pull One S Android 4.2 update": http://androidandme.com/2013/07/new...-forced-htc-to-pull-one-s-android-4-2-update/ , mainly because there was an apparent lack of additional support for the aging Snapdragon S3 chipset for the latest Android update (the S4 variant was much easier to update in comparison due to more forward-looking software support).

ooooh what I just see:
http://www.frandroid.com/marques/ht...ement-dandroid-4-4-2-kitkat-debuter-en-europe
it's French but it says that HTC One starts to receive kitkat update in Europe

 

[ams]

ooooh what I just see:
http://www.frandroid.com/marques/ht...ement-dandroid-4-4-2-kitkat-debuter-en-europe
it's French but it says that HTC One starts to receive kitkat update in Europe

That is the HTC One with S600 SoC. The phone we were talking about earlier is HTC One X which was first introduced ~ April 2012 and then lightly refreshed in ~ November 2012 as the HTC One X+, both using a T3 SoC variant.