The global tablet market will “explode,” and “every human by...

Technology Conference in San Jose, Calif. “I can’t imagine a human in a few years who doesn’t have a tablet, and the reason for that is because you can’t otherwise read in school” without one by then, he predicted. “Every developing country is going to put tablets in their kids’ hands,” he said. Many students at universities are already using tablets to read books, he said. Huang recently visited his alma mater, Oregon State, and the book store there was “devastated” because students were mostly reading books on tablets and not using traditional books anymore, he said. “It’s all digital” now, he said. Huang predicted that consumers will “get a tablet long before you get” a mobile phone because the phone requires a subscription, while the tablet doesn’t. “You don’t need a phone to live,” but will “need a tablet to live,” he said. “What we need to do is figure out how to build tablets that are great on the one hand” and “on the other hand really affordable,” he said. Nvidia introduced Kai, a low-cost tablet platform, last year, and that turned into the Nexus 7 only a few months later, he said. “We need to take that tablet even further,” he said. “Tablets are changing in shape and style, and in ways of use,” and Nvidia must “keep advancing Kai,” he said. Nvidia also took its ability to build a reference platform to mobile phones with the Phoenix 1080p device, he said.