Taipei, Aug. 29, 2008 (CENS)--Graphic-processor vendor Nvidia Corp. will work with VIA Technologies Inc. to tap global market of processors for smart phones by integrating Nividia Tegra processor with VIA Nano processor, according to Nvidia Chief Executive Jen-Hsun Huang.

Hung stressed that the collaboration with VIA would be a top priority since his company would begin to venture into the market next year, as would Intel. will introduce Atom processor to compete in the market.

Currently, Texas Instruments (TI), Qualcomm, Marvell Technology, and Samsung are dominating the market.

Huang said at the Nvision 2008 technology forum that smart phone would trigger second personal computing revolution and his company would fully focus on developing smart-phone market as crucial strategy. He noted that computing would replace talking as the major function in next-generation smart phones.

The Nvidia`s top executive noted that his company would develop chipsets for VIA Nano processor and Intel Atom processor as the two processors are developed on the x86 architecture.

Intel, Nvidia, VIA and Their CPU Developments

Company	Intel	Nvidia	VIA
Processor Core	Silverthorne, Diamondville	AP15	Isaiah
Processor Codename	Atom	Tegra APX2500	VIA Nano
Process	Intel 45 nano	TSMC 65 nano	Fujitsu 65 nano
Applications	MID, UMPC, low priced notebook	Smart phone, PDA, GPS	WinCE/Linux MID, UMPC
Customers	Asustek, Micro-Star, Sharp, USI, Haier	HTC, Gloogle (Andriod phone)	Founder Group, HP, Gigabyte, FIC

Sources: the companies

(by Ken Liu)