NVIDIA has unveiled the world’s
first Quad-Core Tegra 3
processor for tablets and mobile
phones. This is said to offer PC-
class performance levels, better
battery life and better mobile
experiences (Better web
experience, faster applications
and multitasking) in tablets and
mobile phones.This was
previously named, Project Kal-El
that was confirmed by the Nvidia
CEO in AsiaD last month.
The Tegra 3 processor has 12-
core GeForce GPU that would
offer 3x the graphics
performance of Tegra 2, and up
to 61 percent lower power
consumption that would offer 12
hours of battery life for HD video
playback. This is based on
Variable SMP (vSMP) Multi-Core
CPU Architecture for Low Power
and High Performance. This is
designed to use less power while
running in four cores than dual-
core processors.
It shuts down its 4 cores while
performing tasks that require
less power consumption like,
music, playing back video or
updating background data and
uses its companion core. It
switches to the cores from the
companion cores while
performing heavy tasks like web
browsing, multitasking and
gaming.
It offers full game-controller
support that would let the
consumers to play games on
their tablet or super phone, or
connect to big screen HDTVs for
a truly immersive experience and
offers 3D Vision technology and
automatically converts OpenGL
applications to stereo 3D, so
consumers can experience 3D on
a big screen 3D TV (via HDMI 1.4).
40 Tegra games are expected to
be available by the end of 2011
and over 15 Tegra 3 games are
under development for Tegra
Zone. The Tegra 3 processor is in
production and it is expected to
be available in December 2011
starting with the Asus Eee Pad
Transformer Prime with more
devices in future. Developers can
download Tegra 3 developer’s kit
now.