![]() ![]() Having played DOOM 3 BFG on the SHIELD TV, I can say that I'm sad to see the ship sink, but it's a matter of market share, which Nvidia simply never got with their Tegra chips and the fact that Android devs did not bother to update the bulk of Nvidia SHIELD portable/tablet apps for the SHIELD TV's Android TV OS really didn't help Nvidia's bottom line at all. Given that, other than the obvious "Big D***!" GPU that Nvidia brings to the table, they really have nothing to offer anyone looking for an SOC to use in Android devices, though the SOC is a great fit for such applications. The single purpose of the SHIELD products was to give Nvidia a showcase reference platform for their Tegra SOCs and every phone/tablet vendor that bought into the hardware several years ago, lost big money on their products because the Android software wasn't where it needed to be and the media-centric SOCs from MediaTek and other big names in Asia quickly became competitive with what Nvidia was putting out, so Tegra R&D resources have been diverted to AI applications, with a focus on automotive and security uses that will use the computing power of the GPU. ![]() They took a big loss from the Tegra SOCs because electronics makers in Asia chose Chinese/Taiwanese SOCs for their TV/set-top-box/phone/tablet products. There has been no word in the dev circles I'm connected with that anything is in the pipeline and a report I read on Nvidia's finances from some time ago stated that the CEO closed the product development for SHIELD around the time Nintendo became interested in Tegra. "AFAIK, Nvidia is not planning a new SHIELD product at this time and will likely only continue supporting SHIELD TV for another year or two.
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