Nvidia CEO: We Are Working On Next Generation Surface

UnknowingFool writes "CEO Jen-Hsun Huang has told CNET that Nvidia is working with Microsoft on the next generation of Surface tablets. While sales of the first generation have been poor, Huang believes the second generation will be more successful with the inclusion of Outlook."

Re:Haswell?

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No, because Intel's Haswell has an integrated GPU that obviates nVidia's participation as a GPU provider. There is no point in bringing Haswell into an nVidia discussion, nor bringing nVidia into a Haswell, except for comparison. They are mutually exclusive for everything except comparison purposes. They are not going to be combined together into a product.

Re:Haswell?

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BTW: While the NVidia Tegra Surface led to $900M in writedowns for Microsoft, the device is was built on - the Asus Prime - continues to sell and make profits to this day with an Android OS. The next gen product released before Surface RT launched - the Asus Infinity - is even more successful and profitable.

Stop

[chr1st1anSoldier]

Please don't, Microsoft, I deal with outlook and exchange everyday. From Office 2003 through 2013, server 2003 through 2012, exchange 2003 - 2013, noting but a giant hunk of crap taking up rack space. Nothing but problems, problems and more problems. The little linux server tucked away at the bottom of the rack with a little layer of dust on it? Never has a problem. But those windows servers? Countless hours of sleep lost by all employees because of how often they go down. Please don't include outlook, it hardly works with your own exchange server and works far worse with technologies not developed by you. For the sake of what hair is left on my head, PLEASE STOP.

Re:Stop

[Anonymous Coward]

I must be doing something wrong, as Exchange and Outlook have been working nicely for me. Whether the client use Outlook 2007, 2010, 2011, 2013, OWA from Firefox or IE or Safari or Chrome... on the server Exchange 2003, 2007, 2010, and soon 2013... well... it just works.

Re:From the summary:

[Gwala]

Background: I've got a Surface RT - picked it up about a week ago due to the 30% price drop on impulse to replace my iPad while on holiday.

The email app on the Surface is roughly about as functional as the iPad email app - the design is fairly close; although I find the Surface one has a slight edge since it uses screen space better, and doesn't become unusable when you switch to portrait mode.

The big killer for me though (and why I got it to replace my iPad) is the built-in kickstand and the snap on keyboard -- I didn't flick on my laptop once to respond to a work email while away; that's a big change compared to the iPad where the onscreen keyboard (and the variety of crap external ones) are unusable for anything more than a sentence or two long; and I'd end up having to log onto a laptop to respond.

Showing recent emails on the start screen is nice too -- I have a Win8 desktop and hate metro there; but on the Surface it actually feels appropriate and good design (although things like switching tabs in IE don't "feel" right given it involves swiping in entirely different direction to e.g. changing applications).

Re:Clinging to the boat anchor

[cbhacking]

Um, WTF are you smoking? Tegra is an ARM chip. The current Surface RT (ARM) runs on the Tegra 3. The new version will, apparently, run on Tegra 4.