NVIDIA Quad-Core Mobile processors coming in August

[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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Quad core intros NVIDIA Tegra, shares the roadmap through 2014

NVIDIA has abandoned some news impressive during Mobile World Congress this year, revealing a Tegra quad-core and a roadmap for three years for its rapid andà Codenamed "Kal-El," the new chip Tegra is already sampling and could land already in products like August. NVIDIA hasn't shared the official name of the chip, but the company allegedly sees itself as the third-generation Tegra and refer to it as 3 Tegra.

Kal-El Pack four processing cores and 12-core that promise to double the graphics performance of the CPU the Tegra 2 and tripling its graphics performance. These increases are partially supported by the results Coremark 1.0 that NVIDIA shared. Kal-El scored 11,327 in benchmark, which is almost double the 2 Tegra 5840 points. The new Tegra outscored even Core 2 Duo T7200 mobile dual-core processors of Intel.

To demonstrate the power of the chip, Nvidia fired a 1440p (2560 x 1600) video and streamed from an unreleased tablet to a 30-inch displays. "[Kal-El is] capable of making extreme high-definition video, the likes of which has not ever seen on a mobile device, or for that matter, on any consume the product," said Phil Carmack Nvidia. This speed comes without lifting the TDP as Kal-El is more efficient the Tegra 2.

As the Tegra processor Next-Gen is impressive, is just the beginning of what is to come. According to the roadmap for Nvidia, the company plans to launch an architecture Tegra updated each year through 2014. "Wayne" Kal-El will follow in 2012, "Logan" is scheduled for 2013 and 2014 plans to release his "Stark" processor, which will take almost a 100-fold increase in computational power by Nvidia's Tegra 2 9.

NVIDIA: we have quad core Tegra products soon

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