The second-generation Google Nexus 7

According to Reuters sources, Google plans to deliver to the market order 6-8 million Nexus 7 in the second half of the year, thereby throwing challenge Apple's iPad mini and other competitors producing tablets.

Google, Inc. continues the strategy of strengthening the market low-cost mobile devices, will release the second generation of seven-inch Android tablet Nexus 7 is tentatively in July of this year, Reuters reported, citing informed sources.

The second-generation Nexus 7 will feature a higher-resolution screen, is thinner and is expected to be run on a processor Snapdragon from Qualcomm, although the first version had a Nvidia Tegra 3 chip, sources say.

Rumor has it that the second generation 7-inch tablet Nexus, which will probably have a strange name "Nexus 7 2," will be a Qualcomm processor on board instead of the Nvidia Tegra 4/4i. Such a choice is due to more energy efficient chipset from Qualcomm. Google, Inc. ASUS and Qualcomm about the possible release of the device has not yet commented.

Currently, the Nexus 7 comes with Nvidia Tegra 3 under the hood, so the obvious solution would be to use a new generation of chips Nvidia.

DigiTimes reported that Google with Asus chosen as the "heart" of the tablet processor Qualcomm Snapdragon, and not Tegra 4. Most likely, the reason for this choice was the support for 4G LTE processors Qualcomm. Nvidia Tegra 4i also has the support, but the release of the chip does not have time to date. This was the primary reason for choosing a processor Qualcomm.