Re:Examining the Nintendo Switch (Tegra X1) Video Engine
by rickdeckard on Wednesday July 03, 2024 @08:12AM
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I'm not aware of the automotive play until Tegra2 reached the end of its lifecycle as a Smartphone CPU. From what I know, Tegra had its inception as a CPU for portable electronics, in the era of ~2011 when Smartphone vendors sourced CPU's and Modems from different parties instead of having a single SoC including the Modem.
Tegra2 was going head-to-head with TI OMAP3 in ~2012 for the fastest Premium Smartphone Platform, Tegra2 powered the first DualCore Smartphone in the world.
At that time there were a few players on that market for CPU + Modem:
- Qualcomm APQ + Qualcomm MDM Modem
- Apple A-series + Infineon XMM / Qualcomm MDM Modem
In the end Qualcomm won against TI and nVidia by forging a path to merge APQ and MDM into their SD/SDM SoC-line and becoming "less economic" for Hardware manufacturers to have their Modems combined with other CPU's.
Tegra2 was going head-to-head with TI OMAP3 in ~2012 for the fastest Premium Smartphone Platform, Tegra2 powered the first DualCore Smartphone in the world.
At that time there were a few players on that market for CPU + Modem: - Qualcomm APQ + Qualcomm MDM Modem
- TI OMAP + Infineon XMM Modem / Qualcomm MDM Modem
- nVidia Tegra + Infineon XMM / Qualcomm MDM Modem
- Samsung Exynos + Infineon XMM / Qualcomm MDM Modem
- Apple A-series + Infineon XMM / Qualcomm MDM Modem
In the end Qualcomm won against TI and nVidia by forging a path to merge APQ and MDM into their SD/SDM SoC-line and becoming "less economic" for Hardware manufacturers to have their Modems combined with other CPU's.