Nvidia Targets $99 Netbook With Tegra Chips

From PC World: Shuffling its chip strategy, Nvidia on Thursday said it wants to put its Tegra chips for mobile devices into netbooks.

The company is already working with PC makers to develop Tegra-based netbooks, said Jen-Hsun Huang, president and CEO of Nvidia in an interview at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.

Tegra-based netbooks could be less than a year away from introduction, Huang said. Incorporating Tegra could also drop the price of netbooks to the sub-$100 range as prices of components have come down.

"I see Tegra [netbooks] at US$99 [to] $199," he said.

Announced in early 2008, Tegra puts an Arm-based processor core, a GeForce graphics core and other components onto a single chip. The product lineup will include the Tegra 600 running at 700MHz and the Tegra 650 running at 800MHz. The lineup also includes the Tegra APX 2500.

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