9/13/10:
At a rendezvous in San Francisco, Boxee’s Avner Ronen told Engadget the decision to abandon Tegra 2 was about performance and nothing more: “The major problem we had with the Tegra 2 was support for high-profile HD playback,” he said. “You can do high-profile VC-1 with Tegra 2, but not H.264.” It was a problem of bitrate, he told us, and while NVIDIA’s dual-core Tegra T20 was apparently not up to the task, the team had internally tested Intel’s CE4100 decoding streams at up to 90 megabits per second.

Meanwhile, the imminent ASUS EPad you cited as your proof there was nothing wrong with Tegra2 is now slated to launch in March of 2010. Maybe they’ll have Tegra3 by then…

Well im waiting for Adam…

slashgear’s source claims soft and hardware problems:but notion ink mentions it’s about flash only?

they said Q32010 from the beginning:what makes you think they won’t make it in the 3d quarter?That’s 3 months from now(at least).

asus reported on april 3 that its tablet(based on tegra2) comes in june,what does slashgear make of that?

my guess is that there have been problems but they have been working on them prior to slashgear’s “revelation”

of course you could post another summary in a week or so

whatever makes you happy

“According to our source, the newest Tegra has “some serious issues” when it comes to stability, and companies like Notion Ink and ICD are left waiting…Notion Ink are apparently facing two months delay (they originally said they’d be launching in Q3 2010).”
–SlashGear (4.1.10)

“‘fix’ is unnecessary….so it’s ok to launch a rumour, even it’s obviously from an unreliable anonymous(how convenient eh?) source? And then, even then, if a company denies it the rumour remains valid?”
–Fudility (4.1.10)

“So, are the stories of product delays true? To be frank, I can’t say about other companies. But we want to go ahead only with Flash availability. As soon as the stable Flash is there, there will be two months of testing and we will hit the stores.”
–Notion Ink (4.3.10)
http://notionink.wordpress.com/2010/04/03/so-where-are-we/

they say their tegra2 ipad comes as announced previously in june…

http://www.techtree.com/India/News/Asus_prepping_Apple_iPad_Rival_Tablet/551-110286-615.html

I’ll keep it marked as “developing” on our site and keep a close eye on it. Keep up the good work guys.

I understand this is frustrating for those wanting more details, but doing so would definitely compromise the anonymity of our source. Needless to say, their information is at odds with NVIDIA’s official line.

Lol yourself!! “They’re not allowed to?” Talk about naive. They can’t lie to shareholders or the SEC. They can lie to blogs all they want.

“I would hereby add the fact that in 2008 when the weak die debacle emerged…nvidia never denied that.”

Firstly, “In July 2008…NVIDIA assured Apple that Mac computers with these graphics processors were not affected. However, after an Apple-led investigation, Apple has determined that some MacBook Pro computers with the NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT graphics processor may be affected.” (http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2377)

Secondly, they hadn’t hired the esteemed Mr. Sherbin yet.

As much as it would pain this Google supporter and future Notion Ink Adam purchaser for the rumor to be true, the mere denial of NVIDIA does not, by itself, discredit the rumor or the source.

Imagine if Bob Woodward had called the White House after meeting with unnamed source Mark Felt aka “Deep Throat” and taken the press secretary’s word that Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman wasn’t running a secret campaign fund to finance such things as burglary, bugging and dirty tricks for the Nixon campaign? I mean, they did deny it:

(http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=liocAAAAIBAJ&sjid=U1sEAAAAIBAJ&dq=white%20house%20denies%20haldeman%20fund%20washington%20post&pg=6875%2C3879314)

So Felt must therefore be obviously unreliable, right?

So my rhetorical question to you is– do you know their source? If so, do you know them to be unreliable? They apparently trusted him enough to run the story. Unattributed sources are typically the source of real news. You don’t just take the company’s word for it like you suggested.

In NVIDIA’s particular case, their head of corporate communications, Bob Sherbin, is pretty familiar with unnamed (different from anonymous in that slashgear knows them) sources leaking info to the press.

You might remember Sherbin, in his former capacity as head of corporate communications with HP, was implicated in the spy scandal in which employees and reporters (CNET) were investigated and illegally bugged and tracked by company-hired investigators. If not, feel free to Google it.

you guys are funny,so it’s ok to launch a rumour,even it’s obviously from an unreliable anonymous(how convenient eh?) source?
And then ,even then ,if a company denies it the rumour remains valid?”Because hey:look what happened in 2008?”
There are too many idiots on this lovely planet and you both are excellent proof of that.
Cheers!

My contention, jackass, is that you can’t always trust what companies say. It’s not against the law for nvidia to lie and say everything is rosy if it’s not. Heaven forbid a company spokesman not tell the truth!!

I’m not saying things aren’t going swimmingly with the tegra2s…but if they weren’t– nvidia wouldn’t be freely admitting it, now would they?

???

they did asap after the rumour was launched,so your “fix” is unnecessary and I’m not even gonna comment on your interpretation “skills”.

But the gist of the story– that such a false start/delay would give the iPad a ridiculous head start in the market and make it that much more difficult for the competition to catch up– would still be true.

So assuming there really was a problem, it would be in nvidia’s best interests to deny the allegation and hope they can fix it with software before it absolutely, unavoidably necessitates a delay.

this is very “charlie demerjian-ish” behaviour imo,which is a bit of a shame.

flash isn’t going anywhere… looks like steve is wrong as usual.

Since it is NOT absolutely necessary to have a web tabet at home, I can make this a question of principle. Now, if my job was at peril, I would head for the Apple store.

At least I will have enough time to find good reasons for my wife why we need an other computer :D

http://www.liliputing.com/2010/04/nvidia-tegra-2-is-on-track.html

Looks like Steve jobs was right

Maybe Notion Ink can upgrade from Android to Chrome and from 3G to 4G while we wait.

And no, nobody who cares enough about tech to eschew the iPad for the Adam is going to now rush out to get an iPad. The iPad won’t be worth having until it runs on 4G, can display native 720p, output 1080p and run high-def teleconferences with its forward-facing camera.