[Image: Nvidia]Ah, remember only six months ago when we were anticipating super fast dual-core mobile? Ben Nvidia and Qualcomm have been moving quickly--Tuesday, Nvidia not only announced but has demonstrated its new quad-core mobile processor at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
The new processor, nicknamed "Kal-El" (Superman Krypton name, by the way), is expected to ship in August and tablets from smartphones by 2011. This announcement came just a day after rival mobile computing that Qualcomm has announced that its quad core processor, a cooled 2.5 GHz Snapdragon, will be shipping early in 2012. Boom headshot, Qualcomm ….
NVIDIA demonstrated Kal-El in action at MWC, showing how allows up to two times faster than dual-core processors.
NVIDIA has also demonstrated Kal-El running CoreMark. Kal-El received a score of CoreMark 11,352--about twice the performance of Nvidia Tegra 2, who received a score of CoreMark 5840.
The new processor also contains the new GeForce 12-core processor and Nvidia says is already out in the wild--in a blog post on Tuesday, Michael Rayfield said that customers are "get samples now and they're planning production in August".
Rayfield also gave us a look at Nvidia's roadmap for the coming years: faster processors made each year until 2014. Processors are currently codenamed "Wayne", "Logan" and "Stark," and "Stark Rayfield says" will feature 75 x improvement in performance over the Tegra 2.
"You might ask, what on earth can be done with almost 75 x improvement in performance over 2 Tegra that Stark will in 2014?" Raymond notes.
Hopefully allow us to fly around in our clothes iron and slash people with our hand adamantium claws?
Apparently it doesn't matter what you can do, because "our customers and partners have already indicated that they are confident that they can use whatever we give them."
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