Amazon nuked the tablet market as it unveiled several new devices. Amazon applied the heat with Kindle Fire, its $199 full-color Android tablet. Designed to compete against the Apple iPad, Blackberry PlayBook and Motorola Xoom, the tablet applies downward pressure on prices in the tablet market. Also, Amazon released a new Kindle book reader, two [...]
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How low can RIM PlayBook go? Not low enough
Recently, we learned that the HP TouchPad was worth about $99, hundreds of dollars less than production cost. Now, analysts question the value of the ballyhooed Blackberry PlayBook from RIM. The ailing makers of Blackberry smartphones and dud-tablets now have discounted the PlayBook by $200 at Staples. This reduces the cost of the entry-level model to a [...]
NVIDEA affirms Quad Core Tegra fourth quarter release
Quad Core Tegra processors will arrive on the market using 4th Quarter this year, according to a statement this month made by NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang. In spite of horrific numbers posted by non-Apple iPad tablet makers, Huang estimates the current consumer market for ultra-mobile CPUs at 100 million units. By taking the lead in the [...]
NVIDIA Tegra 3 to power ASUS Ee Pad Transformer 2
Just in time for the holidays, ASUS will have a new ultra-mobile tablet device on store shelves. The Transformer 2 tablet follows the original transformer with a quad-core CPU with built-in NVIDEA card graphics. Because the tablet does not require an NVIDEA graphics card, the device is lightweight and comes at a low price. Rising [...]
2011 The Year of the iPad: HP TouchPad and the demise of the tablet
Shop for Tablets and accessories at the CPG Store Technology pundits proudly ascribed the title, “The Year of the Tablet” to 2011. So far that designation has been a total flop, unless they meant “The Year of the iPad.” With Apple soaring atop the global corporate landscape, the company has more money than most countries, [...]
Card graphics may suffer as AMD, NVIDIA boost mobile efforts
AMD ATI Radeon and GeForce NVIDEA graphic cards will lose clout at their respective companies now that ATI and NVIDIA are restructuring to meet market challenges. The summer has been tough for almost all chip makers, but weakness in the Chinese market has compounded noticeable despair in North America to prompt silicon giants to adjust [...]