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The competition of tablet computer market turns white-hot
With the rise of the smart phone and the tablet computer, NVIDIA company became the biggest beneficiary with Tegra series mobile quad core processor. What is more, Tegra 2 dual-core processor has begun to ship, which is added to GPU function. Some analysts believe that Tegra 2 processors will make a big difference on the tablet computer market. For NVIDIA company accounted for more than 50 percent of the share in the tablet computer market. And also NVIDIA company’s share prices began a new round of soaring, from $ 9.19 to $ 16.15 within a year. However, in the traditional personal computer market, NVIDIA traditional sphere of influence is being challenged by Intel and AMD. Although the market research firm Jon Peddie Research (JPR) released a statistics report about the world's discrete graphics card market in the first quarter of 2011.Compared with the market share of 40.46% of AMD, NVIDIA has overwhelming advantage with the market share of59.12%. But Intel and AMD are trying to avoid the advantage of NVIDIA. Intel introduced the integrated graphics functions SandyBridge processor and AMD also released an integrated processors, chipsets, graphics APU product in March of this year, which makes the market share of integrated and discrete graphics soaring. Android tablet computer will win over Apple iPad by its open edges. NVIDIA has predicted that the whole mobile platform will be developing at a high pace a few years ago. In the whole mobile platform, the most important thing is the effect of the users’ visual experience. NVIDIA has had rich experiences in the field of processing system. So it can quickly launch a more energy-efficient mobile processor platform: Tegra Now the most popular mobile processor platform on the market is NVIDIA's Tegra2 dual-core processors. Many manufacturers like Dell, Sony, Samsung choose Tegra2 as their first choice. Tegra quad-core processors will be launched soon. Presentation on the computer show in Taiwan, the process can be found in the performance to run console-level game. It can be said that Android tablet computer is not lost to Apple’s ipad in performance, even it is able to surpass ipad in some ways. For example, as we all know, ipad can only support H.264 video and MPEG-4 video, many other common video formats can not play on ipad directly. If we want to play them on ipad, we have to use a best ipad video converter to help us convert a suitable format. What is worse, we also can not play dvd on ipad directly, if we want to play dvd on ipad, we must use another mac dvd to ipad converter. Though ipad takes dominant place in the market now, personal computer is an open platform, which is allowed to run more diverse number of applications. For example, Android is also an open platform, despite the late start, but as the further development of hardware and software facilities of Android platform, it will occupy a large market share and eventually surpass Apple iPad.
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