Despite costing it $900 million in "inventory adjustment" charges Microsoft will not give the tablet dream up-- Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang tells CNET the company is already "working really hard" on the 2nd Surface generation.
Nvidia hardware powers both versions of the underselling Microsoft tablet. According to the latest Microsoft SEC filings Surface revenues for the fiscal year ending June 2013 total $853 million, while a March 2013 Bloomberg report says sales total to 1 million ARM-based Surface RTs and around 400000 Surface Pros.
However Jen-Hsun Huang has high hopes for the next Surface-- because it will ship with Outlook at launch, something the 1st Surface lacked.
"It is the killer app for Windows," the Nvidia CEO tells CNET. "Now we're going to bring it with the 2nd-generation Surface. We're working really hard on it, and we hope that it's going to be a big success."
Microsoft is still to comment on the story, as is other Surface RT chip supplier Qualcomm.
Will the Windows maker manage to make its tablet dream come true, or was Acer CEO J.T. Wang right to tell the company to "think twice" about Surface? We have little doubt a second Surface will in the future, so expect the plot to thicken in the following months.
Go Nvidia CEO: We're Working Hard on Surface 2 (CNET)
Go Microsoft Fiscal 2013 SEC Filing
Go Microsoft's Surface Tablet Said to Fall Short of Predictions (Bloomberg)
