Nvidia will abandon smart phone and tablets market

As news from ontablets.es, Nvidia will abandon its mobile devices business, and sell out its 3G and LTE modem business. Nvidia announced that it will close Icera before 2nd quarter of 2015, and sell out all its properties. In 2011, Nvidia is cost 367 million US dollar to acquire Icera modem business.

In 2011, Nvidia was already the leader of desktop PC, and it was also quite confident of the future of mobile devices, like smart phones and tablets. So Nvidia developed its Tegra 2 dual core processor, this chipset was selected by Motorola. At that moment, Qualcomm is still a solution provider for base band. Mediatek even did not start its business for mobile device.

At that moment, Nvidia just owned the technology of APP processor, but no technologies for base band. So Nvidia wanted to acquire Icera. After the acquisition, Nvidia launched its new SOC integrating base band. In 2013, and 2014, Qualcomm started to compete with Mediatek. But Nvidia was still one year ahead of Mediatek. Everything looks very good.

In May, 2011, Nvidia finished the acquisition with Icera. At that moment, Nvidia were still developing its Tegra 2 and Tegra 3. Till now, Nvidia has already launched its Tegra 3, Tegra 4, Tegra K1, Tegra X1 processor, but it still have not finished integration of base band technology and MCU technology.

Even Huauwei, which is a later comer, has already launched its Kirin 920 with base band technology in 2014, Nvidia still has no result. Maybe, it is a good thing for Nvidia to quit from smart phone and tablets business.