{"id":643243,"date":"2013-02-20T20:00:38","date_gmt":"2013-02-21T01:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/?p=612304"},"modified":"2013-02-20T20:00:38","modified_gmt":"2013-02-21T01:00:38","slug":"zte-to-use-nvidias-latest-tegra-4-chip-in-next-gen-phones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/643243","title":{"rendered":"ZTE to use Nvidia\u2019s latest Tegra 4 chip in next-gen phones"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fresh off the launch of its Tegra 4i chips<\/a> that integrate a modem and the tegra applciaiton processor, Nvidia is announcing a customer win for its standalone Tegra 4 applciaiton processor. ZTE, the Chinese handset and equipment maker, will produce a smartphone using the Tegra 4 processor and Nvidia’s i500 LTE modem.<\/a><\/p>\n

The handset is anticipated in the first half of 2013 according to Nvidia, and follows ZTE’s use of Nvidia’s Tegra 2 and 3 processors and Icera modem in earlier phones<\/a>. It’s also the beginning of handsets designed to wow users with full HD playback and other features that require some serious processing power. <\/p>\n

Nvidia isn’t the only company pushing more powerful application processors and flexible modems; ST-Ericsson announced a 3GHz monstrosity<\/a> today as part of its NovaThor line of integrated chips. While ST-Ericsson is only showing off a prototype, the specs clearly show that it too has visions of faster phones that require a lot of processing power.<\/p>\n

The NovaThor also supports a huge variety of mobile radio technologies that make it useful in many geographic areas. For those who want to get technical<\/a>, the NovaThor L8580 supports downlink speeds up to 150Mbps as well as LTE-FDD, LTE-TDD, HSPA+, GSM and TD-SCDMA. It has up to 17 bands in the same device and a single radio for carrier aggregation, which is what enables it to tune into frequencies in many markets. Like Broadcom’s latest modem<\/a>, ST-Ericsson and Nvidia are pushing the bar when it comes to building radios that can travel far and wide even if a country uses different frequencies for their LTE deployments. <\/p>\n

In many ways the future of phones is the same has it had been, more performance in more places. Technology is awesome.<\/p>\n

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