Google Nexus 7 Teardown

Last week, the announcement was finally made at Google’s I/O conference: Google would be introducing their first branded tablet, and to the surprise of many, it would feature a $199 USD price point. The Google Nexus 7, manufactured by ASUS, would be a direct competitor to the Kindle Fire.

And like the Kindle Fire, the Nexus 7 would offer a tablet with comparable specifications to other tablets on the market, while also taking advantage of the rich library of applications that were available through Google’s Android Market. Featuring a 7-inch display, the Nexus 7 also features NVIDIA’s quad-core Tegra 3 processor while also sporting 1GB of internal RAM and the option of 8GB or 16GB of storage.

A closer look inside

Powering the Google Nexus 7 is NVIDIA’s Tegra 3 processor. Since the processor’s first design win inside the ASUS Transformer Prime, NVIDIA’s latest processor has been finding itself gathering socket wins. A quick search inside our IRIS database shows at least 5 design wins, including a major one with the new Microsoft Surface tablet. The Tegra 3 is a 1.3 GHz high-performance, low-power system-on-a-chip and was the first mobile applications processor to incorporate four cores for the CPU and four cores for the GPU. The Tegra 3 features “Variable Symmetric Multiprocessing” (vSMP) that uses a single low power core for tasks requiring less power consumption.

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