We had a chance to meet with Bill Henry, the general manager of Nvidia's mobile Internet devices division, a chap who drives a rather interesting project called Tegra and we can tell that the retail devices based on Tegra platform will ship in Q1 2009.

There are no announcements as Nvidia cannot comment this for its partners, but there are a few design wins for this platform. Tegra is a platform based on ARM CPU that has Nvidia’s GPU and the rest of the chipset and Tegra will be known for being able to play HD 1080 on this tiny device for hours.

In idle Tegra, its CPU and Northbridge will consume 5mW while Atom needs 600mW for the same task. This looks like a promising platform that will fit in smallest mobile phones such as any clamshell phone but it will enable iPhone like phones or a bit bigger mobile internet devices, popularly called MIDs.

It is coming in Q1 2009 so let us be surprised.