Google's Nexus 9 Tablet Is a Huge Win for NVIDIA

[froggyboy604]

The Nexus 9 will be the first device to run Android 5.0 Lollipop, which notably incorporates support for 64-bit CPU architectures. And making the most of that support at the heart of the Nexus 9 will be NVIDIA's (NASDAQ: NVDA  ) 64-bit Tegra K1 superchip. This confirms speculation of as much in recent weeks, and is undeniably huge news for NVIDIA for two main reasons.

A much-needed win
For one, the Nexus 9 is the first device to feature the 64-bit version of NVIDIA's Tegra K1, which itself is an ARM Holdings v8-based beast with dual 2.3 GHz Denver CPUs, and 192 Kepler GPU cores. That's a huge relief for NVIDIA shareholders, who still remember last year's painful Tegra 4 delays, which enabled Qualcomm's Snapdragon S4 to win a coveted spot in Google's second-gen Nexus 7 tablet.

For perspective, the first-gen Nexus 7 was powered by NVIDIA's Tegra 3 and proved a solid win for the graphics-chip specialist when it ramped to sell as many as 1 million units per month by the end of 2012. If the Nexus 9 proves anywhere near as popular, it'll go a long way toward propelling NVIDIA's fast growing -- albeit still-unprofitable -- Tegra segment into the black.

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Good to see that there would be more faster Nvidia chips in future Google Android tablets.

 

[Demon_Skeith]

It does sound pretty good.

 

[ManEaterBug]

The Tegra K1 32-bit processor is a beast from what I've seen in videos. Runs the PSP emulator like a champ. I'm currently saving for a Shield but if the Nexus 9 proves to run things even better I may go with that one instead.

 

[froggyboy604]

I think the Shield Tablet has a MicroSD Memory card, but the Google Nexus 9 does not have a Memory card slot, but the Nexus 9 uses a faster chip which is 64bit Nvidia K1 chip, and a better screen.

 

[IntoxNitram]

Am pretty interested in this. Seems like a very good system which is more middle/top range which is different to Nexus' previous entry level systems.

 

[froggyboy604]

I think the Google Nexus 7 2013 is still one of the fastest 7 inch tablets. I like Nexus tablets and phones more because they get the latest Android updates when they are release, and they have less bloatware except for bundled apps like YouTube, Google Books, Google Plus, Gmail, etc which some people may not want if they don't use YouTube, Google Books, or Google Plus.