Nvidia sees limited shipments of Tegra 4

There is a delicate balance between getting your work out there and knowing when you actually included enough stuff.  In my world beyond the hardware I am often challenged to know when a design is done, does it have enough of this, is there too much of that.  More often than not the design is excatly what is needed but there are times when things are rushed and just don't feel finished.

I think that is what happened with nVidia.

Although Nvidia has successfully landed Tegra 4 orders from brand vendors such as Toshiba, Asustek Computer and Hewlett-Packard (HP) for their high-end products, because shipment volumes are still limited, sources from the upstream supply chain believe Nvidia may need to wait until the release of its next-generation Tegra 4i processor with integrated 4G LTE support to turn the tables

Nvidia's Tegra 4 has advantages in terms of performance, but because of its high price, most brand vendors have turned to choose solutions from China-based makers or MediaTek, which offer strong performance/price ratios.

No built in 4G LTE in a mobile phone chip?  Seems like a huge deal breaker to me and something that should have been considered from the beginning.  Then again, Tegra has always been a better tablet processor than brain for your mobile phone.

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