The next generation of mobile devices will overtake the seventh generation of consoles in terms of performance, said a representative of Nvidia. 

While the gaming community is discussing the PlayStation 4 announcement, waiting for April, when, according to rumors, the presentation of the new Xbox is due to take place, and wondering what the games of the eighth generation of consoles will be, Nvidia is also not wasting time. 

Briefly about the main “iron” events of today: Samsung shipped 60 million smartphones in the quarter, Nvidia enters the mobile device market, iPad will get 128 GB.

At a press conference held in Las Vegas on the eve of the opening of the largest consumer electronics show CES 2013, NVIDIA announced the Tegra 4 chip and the Project Shield game console running Android 4.1.

Windows RT tablets on Tegra 3 received full support for DirectX 9.0 when using Unreal Engine 3 technology.  

The game search application from Nvidia Video Corporation has gained more than 5 million downloads. And the last one was typed over the weekend. 

At least four new devices under the Kindle Fire 2 brand will be on the shelves of the USA this year. Their specifications are already known. It is noteworthy that one of the future tablets will support 4G. 

The tenth anniversary conference of computer game developers – KRI 2012 opened in Moscow today. Part of the conference reports is devoted to the development of mobile applications.