Motorola to Ship Tegra Powered Devices Soon?

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There is a seemingly endless number of hardware manufacturers currently in the mobile industry. Not only are there laptop manufacturers but they are smartphone manufacturers and more recently, tablet manufacturers (among other industries). While the classifications remain somewhat constant, hardware from device to device changes dramatically.

It wasn’t until recently that smart phones became more similar to a handheld computer than a traditional cell phone. Some may argue that this is solely because of the advanced mobile operating systems powering these devices. However, without beefy hardware under the hood, those advanced mobile operating systems wouldn’t run as gloriously as they do on some of today’s higher end devices.

This beefy hardware can be found in pretty much any modern device running a so called advanced mobile operating system. For instance, Apple’s iPhone 4 running iOS features a 1GHz processor and 512MB of RAM. Android powered devices too like the HTC EVO 4G and Samsung Galaxy S feature similar specs.

As of late, the hardware in these devices has generally plateaued with just about every handset being released with virtually identical specs. Luckily, companies have said in the past that they hope to do away with this plateau with Motorola even going as far as saying they hope to release a 2GHz device by year’s end.

Well today, it seems that some new reports have been uncovered that say Motorola didn’t exactly mean a 2GHz processor but instead NVIDIA’s dual-core 1GHz Tegra processor. But wait, Motorola utilizing NVIDIA hardware when they’ve been using Texas Instruments chips ever since the original Droid?

According to NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang, yes, Motorola will begin shipping devices with NVIDIA’s Tegra 2 mobile processor. Huang elaborates by saying that he believes Motorola will eventually become one of NVIDIA’s biggest customers in the handset world.

While there has been a lot of talk about NVIDIA’s Tegra 2 processor, it has yet to hit the market. Perhaps Motorola will be one of the first with a Tegra 2 powered device? We’ll have to wait and see.