Nvidia To Focus On Android With Their Tegra 2

Nvidia seems to be realizing their mistakes after learning that Microsoft’s Kin One and Kin Two might not turn out to be the most auspicious devices for Tegra’s debut in the smartphone area. Admitting the committed too strongly to Microsoft with the first-gen iteration, Jen-Hsun Huang has now said that the second generation of Tegra will look to Android devices first and foremost. This newfound focus will materialize with both smartphones and tablets in the third and fourth quarter of the year, and according to Jen-Hsun, offer device makers a viable competitor to Apple’s A4 SOC. We aren’t quite sure if Nvidia’s Tegra will successfully topple Apple’s A4 chip but in other news NVIDIA has now shipped “a few hundred thousand” Fermi cards, and has also achieved 70 design wins with its Optimus graphics switching technology. Eleven of those are now out in the wild, but the vast majority are still to come, mostly as part of the seasonal “back to school” refresh at the end of the summer. All of the revelations came during the company’s earnings call for the first quarter of its 2011 fiscal year.