Next Gen Tablets To Rock Quad-core Tegra chip
The Tegra 2 chipset, with all it’s Dual-core might, is a processing CPU which is to be incorporated within Honeycomb tablet PC’s later this year, however NVIDIA have just made official their quad-core Tegra chip. Known as the Kal-El within NVIDIA HQ, this quad-core powerhouse will undoubtedly be the Tegra 3 when the Tegra 2, NVIDIA’s current chip, starts to saturate. To put the ‘Tegra 3′ in to perspective, last night a 2560 x 1440 stream was under the process of being decoded on a developmental device, scaled down to that slate’s native 1366 x 768 resolution, and additionally displayed on a connected 30-inch, 2560 x 1600 monitor. Engadget reported that Kal-El had no problems with this, which makes us want one right now.
In real terms the new quad-core Tegra offers twice the processing power as it’s brother, the Tegra 2, and three times the graphical power.
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