NVIDIA has just sent out media invitations to the company’s press event centered at Mobile World Congress later this month in Barcelona, Spain, which promises some quad-core firsts. As the company had worked with partner Asus recently to launch the world’s first quad-core ARM-based tablet in the form of the Transformer Prime, that leaves room [...]
Acer is expected to make its second quad-core tablet, the Iconia Tab A510, in Europe starting in April for the price of €500. The tablet will follow Acer’s more premium Iconia Tab A700. Though both devices feature a quad-core Tegra 3 processor and a 10.1-inch display, the Iconia Tab A700 ups the resolution to a 1080p [...]
HTC’s rumored quad-core Tegra 3-powered HTC Edge may get a codename change and be known internally as the HTC Endeavor. Interestingly, the phone may be released as the HTC Supreme. It looks like HTC is going grand with names for its smartphones if its Android flagship will be called the Supreme and the Windows Phone [...]
During NVIDIA’s press conference today at CES 2012, the company announced Asus’ 7-inch Eee Pad Memo which will be arriving with a Tegra 3 quad-core chip along with a very affordable $249 price point. That puts it right on par, at least price-wise, with Barnes and Noble’s Nook Tablet and Amazon’s Kindle Fire. The 7-inch [...]
If you were hoping to see quad-core phones from HTC unveiled at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas it appears that your dreams may have been dashed as Commercial Times is reporting that HTC won’t be unveiling any quad-core smartphones until the Mobile World Congress which is set to take place in February. [...]
It looks like Toshiba is working on a quad-core Android tablet with Tegra 3 on-board. A tablet made by Toshiba was spotted being benchmarked on benchmarking site AnTuTu with the model number ‘toshiba06.’ The tablet’s performance results were on par with other Tegra 3-powered tablets, such as the recently released Asus Transformer Prime. The clock speed [...]
It’s the end of the year and its time for wrap-ups, predictions and more crystal ball gazing than you can shake a branch of holly at. As usual before I make any predictions for 2012, I go back and grade my predictions for the this year now ending. The one thing that is predictable as [...]
Microsoft is working on finalizing its list of vendors and manufacturers to produce Windows 8 machines running on ARM’s chip architecture, a first for the desktop PC OS as it has historically relied on Intel’s and AMD’s x86 core. The software giant is selecting three ARM chip-makers, which can then each choose two OEM hardware [...]
We have still yet to see a Tegra 3 powered tablet hit the market but it appears there is already chatter about price drops as NVIDIA’s CEO Jen-Hsun Huang has gone on record stating that he thinks they are going to be a lot cheaper in about six months time. The first Tegra 3 tablet, [...]
Look at Transformer Prime, Lenovo’s catching up in your rear view mirror with its own Android 4.0 quad-core tablet that’s speculated to be launched at the end of this year. While there’s quite a bit of specs leaked for the device, at this point it’s still unclear if the device will be coming to the [...]
Following NVIDIA’s Tegra 3 announcement with a quad-core ARM-based CPU and the company’s own GeForce-based 12-core graphics engine, ARM has released specs for its updated Mali graphics unit. The ARM Mali graphics engine, model T400, is the graphics used in Samsung’s Exynos processor and is deployed on the South Korean smartphone-maker’s Galaxy S II smartphone, [...]
After having made a brief cameo in Asia, the Transformer Prime is now officially announced by Asus. The slate will come with an updated quad-core Tegra 3 chipset and a higher entry price point of $500, up by $100 from the original Transformer, and is due in December for shipment, contrary to earlier rumors that [...]
Once known by its code name as Kal-el, NVIDIA has finally formally announced its quad-core mobile processor as the Tegra 3 chipset, following the single-core ARM-based Tegra CPU and the dual-core ARM Tegra 2. Tegra 3 is the first quad-core ARM A9 CPU in the world and will also be coupled with a 12-core GeForce [...]
Along with the FCC filing with Asus’ forthcoming Eee Pad Transformer Prime, teardown photos reveal that the next-generation Transformer Android tablet will ship with a quad-core NVIDIA Tegra 3 chipset, which is also known by its codename as Kal-el. According to Wireless Goodness, the FCC teardown photos, which reveal the internal components of the tablet, [...]
Ever since the first Honeycomb Android tablets started selling, both Google and Nvidia have played up their gaming capabilities. Any tablet or smartphone made in the past couple of years can run Angry Birds decently, but the Tegra 2 chip makes games with complex graphics and 3D elements really shine. So it’s no surprise that [...]
NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang calls Microsoft Office “the killer app” for ARM-based Windows tablets and claims a new version for that purpose would be “wonderful”. After ten years of not having a tablet-centric version of Office, I’d call it “miraculous.”
At the AsiaD conference, Asus head Jonney Shih finally fessed up about the company’s next generation Asus Eee Pad Transformer successor, in which Shih calls the Transformer Prime. The device, like the Google smartphone called the Galaxy Nexus by Samsung, will run on the next-generation Android Ice Cream Sandwich platform, which will be the first [...]
In newly released white papers for its quad-core CPU, NVIDIA has detailed that its Kal-el ARM-based mobile architecture will come with 4 standard cores and a fifth core that will help its chipsets achieve power when needed while being energy efficient in basic use. The fifth core, called a companion core, will be used when [...]
Joanna Stern at This is My Next… managed to grab a couple minutes with Michael Angiulo, VP of Windows Planning, who himself was able to grab a prototype tablet running Windows 8 on a quad-core NVIDIA Tegra 3 Kal-El ARM processor. The brief bit of demo is impressive in that you’d never know it wasn’t [...]
It looks like Qualcomm may be losing its monopoly on supplying chips to Microsoft’s Windows Phone platform if a leaked NVIDIA slide is to be believed. According to the NVIDIA roadmap, the company’s Tegra processor will make it onto Windows Phone by 2013, and that chip design will be codenamed Grey. Grey, which will combine [...]
Though NVIDIA had boldly promised in the past that we’ll begin to see tablets with quad-core processors–the Kal-el variety that’s been demoed before–this fall, the company says that there has been delays and devices won’t hit shelves until around Christmas. CEO Jen-Hsun Huang cites that manufacturers of the Android tablets are taking as much time as [...]
Despite Microsoft’s insistence in the past that the Windows Phone operating system, as its name implies, is reserved strictly for phones and that tablets are computers that requires Windows, NVIDIA’s outspoken CEO Jen-Hsun Huang spilled a major secret that the next-generation Windows 8 for tablets will be able to run apps made for Windows Phone [...]
The iPad usually gets credit for being the best platform for tablet gaming, largely due to the robust game catalog. However, every Honeycomb tablet on the market runs on a Tegra 2 processor, and you can’t deny that Nvidia knows gaming and gamers better than most companies. The Tegra Zone app for Android just received [...]
Just a short time ago, Asus chief Jonney Shih confirmed that a sequel to his company’s wildly popular Eee Pad Transformer was on the way. He revealed no details other than to say that the device was going to be “impressive.” It has been rumored that the Eee Pad Transformer 2 would be outfitted with [...]
Motorola has been on a website buying spree lately and purchases dug up by Fusible seem to indicate that something called the Motorola KORE is on the way. The current speculation is that it’s some sort of successor to the Motorola Xoom tablet and possibly one that is going to be powered by a quad-core [...]
Need more evidence that a quad-core powered Asus Eee Pad Transformer might be coming in October? How about confirmation from NVIDIA that Kal-El quad-core powered tablets are coming this fall? That work? Good, because that’s exactly what has come out of the NVIDIA camp today. The company has confirmed the time frame to Android Central [...]
We really love the Asus Eee Pad Transformer and that’s why we were extremely excited when we heard that the sequel could be arriving at some point in October with a Tegra 3 quad-core processor. And now, we’re over the moon because it looks like this rumor could very well become a reality after Asus [...]
According to the latest FCC filing, the Samsung Galaxy S II, which is Samsung’s most popular smartphone to date and still not yet available in the U.S., may be getting a brain swap. Rather than launching with the company’s own Exynos processor, the Galaxy S II, model GT-i9103, which comes with AT&T-compatible 3G/4G bands, was [...]
The Motorola MT870 is like an enhanced version of the Motorola Atrix 4G, which was released for AT&T in the U.S. market. The MT870, like the Atrix, runs Android, is powered by a dual-core 1 GHz NVIDIA Tegra 2 CPU, renders pictures and videos beautifully on a qHD high resolution display, and can capture images [...]
As Microsoft pushes ahead to try to maintain competitiveness in the tablet game by making sure that the hardware and software are more integrated to have tighter control of the user experience, the company may be eying an acquisition of chipset-maker NVIDIA, whose dual-core Tegra 2 was believed to be the reference platform for Android [...]
At the Qualcomm-hosted Uplinq conference in San Diego, California, Qualcomm was upbeat and optimistic about its Snapdragon chipset. The company says that its dual-core Snapdragon are efficient enough that it will out-perform quad-core offerings from rivals. Though company senior VP Rob Chandhok didn’t mention any rivals by name, he cites Qualcomm’s implementation of asynchronous processing [...]
Thanks to Computex 2011 in Taipei we have a large collection of new notebooks to share with you. We also have some new news about smartphones and tablets, including an in-depth look at the HP TouchPad from Computex. Don’t forget, if you signed up for our reader meetup tonight, you should grab your ticket and get to the venue for your [...]
As part of the company’s strategy to not only accelerate development of its forthcoming Windows 8 operating system, but also to ensure that everything works according to plan, Microsoft had implemented an Integrated Development Program consisting of PC and tablet-makers as well as chip companies. The Apple-like approach to restrictions to ensure a better, tightly [...]
Qualcomm is touting the prowess of its single-core 1 GHz Snapdragon processor, now in its generation, and has uploaded a video to YouTube highlighting that its applications processor is faster than the 1 GHz dual-core Tegra 2 from rival NVIDIA. Is a single-core faster than a dual-core at the same speed? While on the surface, [...]
There is now speculation that Google is dumping NVIDIA, whose dual-core chipset helped to shape Android 3.0 Honeycomb, in favor of Texas Instruments for its Ice Cream Sandwich platform, which will begin the process of merging the tablet and smartphone editions of Android into one platform. The company’s OMAP 4 chip will be the reference [...]
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