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Nvidia introduces the Tegra

Oct 13th

Posted by Detro in Curiosity

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Nvidia today left me wordless! They are jumping in the mobile, smartphone and netbook market in a very “noisy” way.

Nvidia Tegra

The NVIDIA® Tegra™ family of computers-on-a-chip, brings the power of advanced visual computing to a broad range of handheld and mobile platforms—from phones, MP3 players, and portable navigation devices (PNDs) to mobile internet devices (MIDs). NVIDIA Tegra enables intuitive user interfaces and advanced multimedia features, all while delivering longer battery life.

This System-On-Chip is a very gigantic breakthrough in the business that involves netbooks, mobile phones, palms, and EeePc-like devices. And Arm11 CPU (implemented by Nvidia itself), with a GoForce graphic chip, plus all the set of hardware needed inside of our current smartphones and handheld devices.

Tegra dimensions comparisons
Tegra dimensions comparisons

The size is impressive too and, probably, the more valuable thing. It’s 1/10 of a full system based on Intel Atom (that is only a chip, while this one is a full system). What does it means to be “that small”? It means:

  • Ultra-low power consumption
  • Ultra-low heating
  • Lighter devices
  • Cheaper devices
  • More space for future innovation

And they did all this with performance (both for quality and speed) that are astonishing. I strongly suggest to take a look to the Nvidia Tegra official YouTube channel.

Curious? Start from the official page.

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We live in a Geek World…

Jan 18th

Posted by Detro in Curiosity

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Geek Inside

… or, at least, I do! ;)

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The more you Hide, The more I want to See!

Aug 12th

Posted by Detro in Curiosity

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Update 14th August 2007: Look at this!!! The first NATIVE GAME for iPhone! Before that Apple itself release any game for it 8-O !!!

Installer.app for iPhone
It’s true: iPhone is based on Mac OSX and it is quite similar to it. Apple, from the beginning, has chosen to close it, avoiding to release any SDK or stuff like that.

Theoretically, the only thing a developer can do is to work on a Web 2.0/Ajax web app. That is not so bad, but… not enough. At least, for hackers that “likes to know more and more”.

What I like to think is: «The more you Hide, The more I want to See!». And is EXACTLY what’s happening with the iPhone APIs. People (not normal, we are speaking about hackers) are discovering more and more about it. How to unlock it to use different SIM then the AT&T one, the SDK used by Apple programmes of iPhone, the compiler configuration to compile for it (previous knowledge of ARM phones is enough). Just Google for it around and you will find a lot of interesting informations about this.

So, I’d like to highlight just 3 of a lot of interesting posts (all 3 of them are from TUAW):

They are not the best example of what you can find/do: but… try to read them forgetting, for just a second, that you are speaking about iPhone. And then think about the Jobs presentation of it.

How beautiful is the Human Mind? Whatever is the problem, we find almost every time a solution to go ahead. To solve it. To look inside what is closed and hided to our sight. And the world of Computer Science/IT, and particularly the Reverse Engineering, is the one of the best example of these things.

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