Yes it does come separately without Tegra 4.

i500 is sold discretely, or inside Tegra 4i. Tegra 4 has no free i500 that comes with it.

-Brian

No you don't get it,they don't sell the i500 without Tegra 4 , i highly doubt they even bothered enabling it to work with anything else.

What part of sold discretely don't you get?

It is a baseband modem that you can tweak with software to support GSM/EDGE/WCDMA/LTE, with or without a T4.

it is sold discretely but not without T4 lol and as proven here most have no idea that's the case

That is just not the case at all. You can buy an i500 and attach it to whatever SoC you want over HSIC/USB2.0

-Brian

since we can't edit i got to double post with the proof:
JHH says - " We don’t sell the modem separately. It's sold as a kit. It's sold with Tegra 4. "
source here towards the end http://seekingalpha.com/article/1182501-nvidia-cor...

There are 2 distinct products referred as "Tegra 4".

The one launched in CES during JAN13 is the result of the "Wayne" project. It has 2 discrete components.

a) The SOC containing 4+1 of the ARM Cortex A15 cores.+ 72 GPU cores
b) A separate baseband discrete chipset icera i500 to pair with the LTE/WCDMA capabilities.

a) and b) would be ideal for the US LTE market and NVIDIA to grow independent of Qualcomm. For tablets it can survive purely with a)

The one lauched a couple of days back is the result of "Grey" project. Here there is single SOC that integrates
4+1 ARM Cortex A9 cores + 60 GPU cores + LTE/WCDMA capable modem.

So what ZTE means is that it will have products that will be made from both Wayne and Grey families.

the quote is "Tegra 4 also enables worldwide 4G LTE voice and data support through an optional chipset, the NVIDIA i500 processor. ZTE and NVIDIA are also planning a new LTE super phone using the i500 LTE chipset for blazing-fast networking. "
So it seems it is not based on Grey but on Tegra 4 .

Here's a quote as well, from NVIDIA:

“It’s a business decision. We can certainly support customers if they just want to use i500 separately.”

So you can buy an i500 discretely.

-Brian

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