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.

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