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To: Doren who wrote (3145)	3/13/2011 10:48:32 PM
From: sylvester80	of 3170

Nvidia confirms quad-core Tegra 3 chip in tablets by August(BENCHMARKS, CHARTS, VIDEOS, ROADMAP) Feb. 16, 2011 (9:00 am) By: Matthew Humphries geek.com Last month a rumor was sparked by a comment made by Nvidia’s Tegra platform manager that hinted at a Tegra 3 announcement during the Mobile World Congress. That rumor turns out to be true as Nvidia has indeed just announced a quad-core Tegra 3 chip. The latest iteration of the system-on-a-chip (SoC) is known internally at Nvidia as Kal-El. Samples of Tegra 3 are also thought to be shipping out already. To demonstrate that Tegra 3 is a real product ready to go, demos were shown of the new chip running in a prototype Android tablet. The first demo sees a 2560 x 1440 stream decoded and played in real-time on the tablet and can be seen in the video above. A second demo aimed to show off the new 12-core GPU capabilities with 650 enemies running around in Great Battles Medieval without the hardware breaking a sweat. That same demo is seen stuttering on an equivalent Tegra 2 tablet. If you thought Tegra 2 was great, expect double the processing performance from Tegra 3 and triple the GPU performance. Nvidia also did a couple of its own benchmarks away from the MWC show floor demonstrating just how fast Kal-El is both in terms of processor performanc and web browsing using all four cores. That extra performance does not come at the cost of battery life according the Nvidia. The company states a typical Tegra 3 tablet will still be able to manage 12 hours of HD video playback. Nvidia also took the opportunity to share its roadmap for the Tegra platform over the next 3 years. After Kal-El we will see Wayne, Logan and then Stark projects come to fruition. If Nvidia stick with this roadmap then in 2014 the Stark chip will be offering a 75x performance improvement over Tegra 2. If true, we can only imagine what tablets will be capable of doing by then. If you want Tegra 3 in a tablet then you only need wait until August when Nvidia state consumer products will ship. Smartphones won’t get it until the end of the year.

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