By Sean Hollister 
posted Dec 19th 2010 2:13PM
It sounds like all of NVIDIA's
wrangling and
cajoling finally paid off, if a couple of analysts are to be believed -- both say the company's dual-core
Tegra 2 chipset is racking up wins in the tablet space. We've seen it
seemingly raise the bar for smartphone silicon in the
LG Star and tease us in slate after slate, but Citigroup's Glen Yeung says that Samsung has "placed a sizeable order with Nvidia for Tegra 2 chips in the first half of 2011, geared for both tablets and smartphones," and BMO Capital Markets analyst Ambrish Srivastava anticipates the next Galaxy Tab will be one of the devices that use it. If that sounds obvious, remember that Samsung was supposed to be producing
a dual-core chip of its own. What could cause companies to embrace Tegra 2, if that's indeed what's happening? Any number of reasons, to be sure, but Glen Yeung also says that Google has made Tegra the reference design for
Honeycomb, aka Android 3.0, and so Tegra 2 may sound like a fast track to victory in the budding tablet space. Here's hoping it's a good choice
for consumers,
too.
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