Remains to be seen as there's no substantial data even indicating yet any of the kind.
Oh please. The whole world knows that Tegra K1 Denver is the SoC launch platform for Android.L and the Nexus 9 tablet. So if it can fit inside a thin fanless 8.9" tablet, then it qualifies as having "ULP SoC class power consumption".
I thought only a page ago China is/was amongst their target markets. Obviously MTK did something right which NV didn't.
Mediatek has traditionally targeted the lower end of the Chinese market which is extremely cost conscious, which is totally different than what NVIDIA is doing. NVIDIA spends billions of dollars on GPU/CPU processor related research, and there is no way that they could do so on ultra slim margins.
So now the focus suddenly changes back to North America again?
The North American market is nearly as important as the Asian market when it comes to NVIDIA's overall revenues, and unlike Mediatek, much of NVIDIA's customer base has a significant presence in the North American market.
Intel failed repeatedly with smartphone SoCs because up to a point they were far too expensive and consumed too much power compared to competing solutions.
Completely false. Silvermont cores have very good power efficiency compared to Cortex A15 cores. And even with PowerVR GPU's and with contra revenue being included, Intel still cannot make a dent in the smartphone space due to the baseband story.
For the very least NV didn't acquire Icera for nothing
Obviously there is a future with VoLTE and where large cellular service providers move away from ancient legacy 3G networks that require Qualcomm tech, but that is still some way off.
FWIW, here is what was reported about Qualcomm:
"Qualcomm is the dominant global player in the mid and high-end, and uses its considerable intellectual property leverage to pursue significant licensing fees based on the wholesale price of 3G/4G mobile phones, leading authorities in China to charge Qualcomm with abusing its "dominant position in the market" and start anti-trust investigations in 2014. In July 2014, Qualcomm announced that it was having trouble enforcing royalties and license fees from Chinese manufacturers, impacting its sales expectations for the next quarter."