Monday, January 07, 2013

NVIDIA unveils i500 Soft Modem with Tegra 4, capable of pushing 1.2 trillion ops per second

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2013/01/07/nvidia-i500-soft-modem/

NVIDIA unveils i500 Soft Modem, first fruits of Icera purchase

NVIDIA's apparently still not out of news from its CES 2013 presser -- the company just unveiled the i500 Soft Modem chip. The soft modem, which is the fruit of the company's purchase of Icera and is utilized with Tegra 4, is a baseband processor that can do 1.2 trillion operations per second and is reprogrammable with software to work with a lot of different networks. The modem, which is 40 percent the size of a conventional baseband chip, is sampling to manufacturers this month.

Joseph Volpe contributed to this report.

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