October 25th, 2011

NVIDIA is inside 70% of non-iPad tablets

NVIDIA is inside 70% of non-iPad tablets, and they’re still improving their chips | Tablets Planet
NVIDIA President and CEO Jen-Hsun Huang holds two sample tablets powered by Tegra 3 Kal-El. This might not come as a surprise to a few of you, but NVIDIA’s CEO Jen-Hsun Huang confirmed recently that his company has chips inside about 70% of non-iPad tablets.

To better understand that 70% you should know that the Android 3.x Honeycomb platform for tablets has around 3.4 million active users at the moment, and Android is the leader in the non-iPad tablet market. Also going into next year non-iPad tablets are expected to explode, especially Android, and that will lead to even more opportunities for chip makers like NVIDIA.

At this time NVIDIA’s Tegra 2 is the most popular dual-core processing chip on the market for non-iPad tablets. The lions-share of Android tablets have the Tegra 2 chip inside; tablets like the Motorola XOOM –first Android 3.0 Honeycomb tablet, ever–, the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 –the thinnest 10.1-inch tablet on the market–, and the Acer Iconia A100 –the most affordable Android 3.2 Honeycomb tablet on the market–.