The CEO of Nvidia, Jen-Hsun Huang, sees the future of tablets with Android devices powered by Nvidia’s forthcoming powerful Tegra 3 chipset. He sees this combined with the latest update for Android Honeycomb (3.1), and he sees these Android tablets overtaking Apple’s iPad in roughly the same amount of time it took Android Smartphones to overtake the iPhone.
“The Android phone took only two and a half years to achieve the momentum that we’re talking about. I would see the same thing on Honeycomb tablets.”
This is the complete opposite from Huang’s previous analysis which blamed low sales of Android tablets on the lack of software richness, sub-par marketing and high price points.
For Android to steal the show once again Huang now argues that more apps are needed, especially high quality games and entertainment titles. He has also suggested that Android vendors iterate Honeycomb devices using Nvidia’s next-generation Tegra processor code-named Kal-El, a quad-core processor which sources are describing as a “screamer”.