CES 2012 NVIDIA Press Conference - Updated

NVIDIA will be giving their press conference at CES 2012 and we will be covering it live with photos and commentary. Will a new Tegra processor be announced? Advanced 3D gaming? Follow us to find out!

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Jan 9, 2012 Christopher White Welcome to this Neowin.net live event. Coverage will begin shortly.

Jan 9, 2012 Christopher White The press conference will begin in around 10 minutes.

Jan 9, 2012 Doug Bemis

Jan 9, 2012 Christopher White Cofounder and CEO Jen-Hsun Huang

Jan 9, 2012 Christopher White Going to talk about tablets.

Jan 9, 2012 Christopher White Another surprise feature of Tegra 3.

Jan 9, 2012 Christopher White Tablets are the fastest growing consumer device.

Jan 9, 2012 Christopher White In history.

Jan 9, 2012 Christopher White Touch technology is the key.

Jan 9, 2012 Christopher White 20 million tablets sold in the first year.

Jan 9, 2012 Christopher White 60 million sold in the second year.

Jan 9, 2012 Christopher White 2nd year, nearly 40% of tablets were iPads.

Jan 9, 2012 Christopher White Toyota Corolla is the highest selling car, and the Ford F150 is the highest selling truck, but we all don't drive a Corolla or F150.

Jan 9, 2012 Christopher White It's all about choice.

Jan 9, 2012 Christopher White The tablet market is the same way.

Jan 9, 2012 Christopher White Some want mobile - want a phone. Some people want tablet with a keyboard, some want a folio that can be put into a purse.

Jan 9, 2012 Doug Bemis A single platform. Ice Cream Sandwich.

Jan 9, 2012 Doug Bemis Unifies all Android devices into a single platform -- easier said than done, ut it's a good thing to try.

Jan 9, 2012 Doug Bemis 250M Android devices, growing at 700k activations per day. Crazy growth!

Jan 9, 2012 Doug Bemis That growth will drive application developers.

Jan 9, 2012 Doug Bemis It will no longer be ANdroid phones and Android talets, it will be simply an Android device.

Jan 9, 2012 Doug Bemis Showcasing ICS -- looks silky smooth at 60fps

Jan 9, 2012 Doug Bemis Live demo of the Asus Transformer

Jan 9, 2012 Doug Bemis Folders look nice.

Jan 9, 2012 Doug Bemis Roughly 14k apps released per day.

Jan 9, 2012 Doug Bemis Fandango demo. Showing TinTin (rendered with NVIDIA technology)

Jan 9, 2012 Doug Bemis Snapseed - one of the top apps ever made for moile devices. Lots of people use them on the iPad, but available on Android as well.

Jan 9, 2012 Doug Bemis Manuel Wille demoing the app - he wrote it.

Jan 9, 2012 Doug Bemis Wanted to create an app that can e used by anyone, anytime.

Jan 9, 2012 Doug Bemis The graphical effects were displayed instantly. The NVIDIA chip is doing the processing.

Jan 9, 2012 Doug Bemis Showing a nice demo where using "You Touch" lets you change brighness of only part of the image. Impressive.

Jan 9, 2012 Doug Bemis What's next ijn mobile photography technology? This is only a a starting spot and the Tegra 3 helps the moile devices handle all of this. Nothing really predicted for the future yet, but we're still learning what can be done.

Jan 9, 2012 Doug Bemis Video games are the leading category of mobile devices.

Jan 9, 2012 Doug Bemis Created a store within the Android Marketplace that brings only the games optimized for your device to you.

Jan 9, 2012 Doug Bemis Riptide GP availale on the tablet.

Jan 9, 2012 Doug Bemis Graphics look impressive and are at 60fps Game was previously only available on the PS3.

Jan 9, 2012 Doug Bemis Graphics look impressive and are at 60fps.

Jan 9, 2012 Doug Bemis One of the largest genres of games are first person shooters (FPS) in a multiplayer setting.

Jan 9, 2012 Doug Bemis Never been done before - but today we're going to see Shadowgun on the tablet.

Jan 9, 2012 Doug Bemis Played multiplayer.

Jan 9, 2012 Doug Bemis And with an Xbox controller on the tablet.

Jan 9, 2012 Doug Bemis Overall it looks very impressive - oth graphics, framerate, and the fact that it's multiplayer. Impressive.!

Jan 9, 2012 Doug Bemis The est FPS player in the world is in the audience - Fatility.

Jan 9, 2012 Doug Bemis He brings home 7 figures a year. lol

Jan 9, 2012 Doug Bemis Splashtop THD demo coming up now.

Jan 9, 2012 Doug Bemis Another top iPad app -- over 5 million apps sold.

Jan 9, 2012 Doug Bemis Allows iPads to remote into a PC.

Jan 9, 2012 Doug Bemis The fidelity is low when you do that you get choppy graphics and not great response time. I have a feeling the Tegra is going to change all of that...

Jan 9, 2012 Doug Bemis He just connected to his PC (containing a GeForce GPU) from his talet.

Jan 9, 2012 Doug Bemis The demo is not going well... He clicked and nothing happened... :(

Jan 9, 2012 Doug Bemis Just crashed. Let's try i again!

Jan 9, 2012 Doug Bemis "If it worked perfectly, it wouldn't be a demo."

Jan 9, 2012 Doug Bemis Now we're getting better progress. Playing Saturday Night Fever, and now Justin Timberlake, from the PC through the tablet.

Jan 9, 2012 Doug Bemis And is now viewing a vidio while listening to music.

Jan 9, 2012 Doug Bemis Looks great now that it's working!

Jan 9, 2012 Doug Bemis But what if we take a game that JUST came out a few days ago? Can we play that using the app?

Jan 9, 2012 Doug Bemis Skyrim on the tablet!

Jan 9, 2012 Doug Bemis The game is running now.

Jan 9, 2012 Doug Bemis Wow. ig dragon attacking the hero. Graphics look great. Looks very responsive.

Jan 9, 2012 Doug Bemis The PC renders the graphics, compresses, streams to the tablet, the tablet becomes the controller and it's working great. Playing games from the PC on the tablet is a reality (according to the demo - have any of our readers tried this?)

Jan 9, 2012 Doug Bemis Asus Transformer Prime.

Jan 9, 2012 Doug Bemis NVIDIA is the first to ring a dual core proc to a tablet and a quad core...

Jan 9, 2012 Doug Bemis ICS will be available to the Transformer Prime starting TODAY!;

Jan 9, 2012 Doug Bemis First ICS talet.

Jan 9, 2012 Doug Bemis 7" Transform for $249, Tegra 3, 5 cores, integrated camera

Jan 9, 2012 Doug Bemis

Jan 9, 2012 Doug Bemis The Tegra 3 has a "ninja core" -- a 5th core that uses very little power.

Jan 9, 2012 Doug Bemis Anyone interested in a $249 7" Transformer Prime tablet?

Jan 9, 2012 Doug Bemis PRISM Display Technology - dynamically adjust the backlight and adjust the color at the same time. This helps battery life.

Jan 9, 2012 Doug Bemis Today a new technology -- DirectTouch Topology -- instead of regular touch, the "ninja core" runs at a few hundred megahertz but can detect your screen touch MUCH faster than current tablets.

Jan 9, 2012 Doug Bemis As an example - 10 touches on the screen and the samples/sec go down. With the new DirectTouch technology, the samples stay in the 200 range. Impressive - it's how they get fast framerates.

Jan 9, 2012 Doug Bemis Windows 8 announcement coming up!

Jan 9, 2012 Doug Bemis Tegra 3 running internal development version of Windows 8.

Jan 9, 2012 Doug Bemis The lock screen is showing what's important at a glance. Connected Standby uses Teene.gra's low power standby mode but can keep updating things behind the sc

Jan 9, 2012 Doug Bemis We're now seeing the Metro interface on the tABLET.

Jan 9, 2012 Doug Bemis tILES SHOWING LIVE UP TO DATE INFORMATION.

Jan 9, 2012 Doug Bemis Consumers didn't like the limitations of the netbook. How do we prevent the repeat of that on the tablet with Win8?

Jan 9, 2012 Doug Bemis In Windows 8, you get apps from the Windows Store.

Jan 9, 2012 Doug Bemis Enterprises can take the tablets and load the apps how they want to without the store (no specific details --- but they CLAIM we can run SAP. I'm skeptical)

Jan 9, 2012 Doug Bemis Windows Store will launch in 200 markets at once.

Jan 9, 2012 Doug Bemis Devs can use whatever model they want - they can get up to 80% of the revenue for themselves. Vague.

Jan 9, 2012 Doug Bemis Windows Runtime - written in HTML5 and JS. Showing an RSS feed of cars.

Jan 9, 2012 Doug Bemis You can also use C or C++.

Jan 9, 2012 Doug Bemis ICS adn Windows 8 - interesting that we see both talked about here.

Jan 9, 2012 Doug Bemis Now a new consumer market - the car indust.ry

Jan 9, 2012 Doug Bemis Two years ago, Audi introduced the "connectred car" - search, browse, use Google Earth. The entire web available in the car.

Jan 9, 2012 Doug Bemis The Audi A7 has won many awards due to its connected capabilities.

Jan 9, 2012 Doug Bemis In a few days, NVIDIA will make another announcement with Audi - stay tuned!

Jan 9, 2012 Doug Bemis Tesla model S will have two Tegra chips - one for the dashboard, one for the entertainment.

Jan 9, 2012 Doug Bemis "From Super Phones to Super Cars" -- and NVIDIA will be powering it all.

Jan 9, 2012 Doug Bemis Stay tuned for pictures and video later today.