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Nvidia: 'Tegra 3+' and 'Tegra+LTE' Coming Soon

Nvidia's quad-core Tegra 3 chipset will be followed by a "Tegra 3+" later this year, Nvidia general manager Mike Rayfield said at HTC's Frequencies conference here in Seattle on Thursday.

April 19, 2012

SEATTLE—Nvidia's quad-core Tegra 3 chipset will be followed by a "Tegra 3+" later this year, Nvidia general manager Mike Rayfield said at HTC's Frequencies conference here in Seattle on Thursday.

While Tegra 3+ won't be the official name of the new chipset, it'll have a different name from Tegra 3 and "it'll be high performance," Rayfield said. "It's a pretty significant bump."

Tegra 3+ will appear in phones and tablets, Rayfield said. The current quad-core Tegra 3 is in Asus's and TF300 tablets, as well as Acer's A510 tablet and the international version of HTC's One X phone.

We'll also soon see Tegra 3 phones with built-in LTE, Rayfield said. The U.S. version of the One X uses a Qualcomm processor, which led to speculation that Tegra 3 was having trouble with LTE modems.

Nvidia's Tegra 3 could mate with an LTE modem, but the problem has been that "the guy who has LTE isn't all that excited about working with me," Rayfield said, referring to Qualcomm, the largest maker of LTE modems so far. Qualcomm is also Nvidia's top competitor when it comes to phone and tablet processors.

Other manufacturers will have LTE modems available soon, so Nvidia will bring its quad-core chipset together with those modems, Rayfield said.

"In the third quarter we'll start to see numerous models that are LTE shipped with Tegra 3," Rayfield said.

Nvidia has previously laid out a future roadmap including a more powerful processor codenamed "Wayne" and a combined processor/baseband chipset codenamed "Grey" in 2013