What is the Nvidia Tegra Tab?

It's a little-known fact that Google and Asus didn't produce the original Nexus 7 tablet alone. It was Nvidia's Kai program that brought down the price of components, in order to turn a budget Asus tablet into a Kindle Fire killer. Before the dust had even settled, Nvidia promised more cheap slates. Fast forward to today, though, and Tegra 4 is again failing to make much of a dent in the market. The new Nexus 7 doesn't include Nvidia's Tegra 4, as Qualcomm won that bid, and Asus spurned Nvidia for its Fonepad as well, choosing a processor from Intel instead. What's a chipmaker to do? It looks like Nvidia might be brokering deals to produce more of its own hardware.

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