Nvidia Has No Immediate Plans to Integrate Baseband Capabilities into Tegra.

Nvidia Corp., which acquired Icera baseband processor designer earlier this month, said that it had no immediate plans to integrate baseband capabilities into its Tegra system-on-chip devices for handsets as well as tablets. Instead, Nvidia plans to bundle Tegra with Icera baseband processors and thus provide two of the key chips for mobile devices.
"With respect to the integration, we have no current plans to integrate [Icera's] modem. We think that the ability to offer both processors and either the two most important processors for mobile computing gives us the opportunity to leverage the momentum of Tegra and also the quite broad penetration [Icera] have already achieved with carriers all over the world to increase the momentum of both processors," said Jen-Hsun Huang, chief executive officer of Nvidia, during the quarterly conference call with financial analysts.
Previously Nvidia insisted that its intentions with Tegra included only high-end devices which do not require high levels of integration, but need maximum performance and rich feature-set. In fact, according to Nvidia, so-called super-phones and tablets do not combine application and baseband processors on the same chip; which is correct, for example, Apple's A4 and A5 SoCs that power iPhone 4/iPad and iPad 2 do not have baseband capabilities.

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