NVIDIA Tegra 3, equipped with 1.5GHz quad-core madness, teased by a familar slide

[Antithesis]

NVIDIA Tegra 3, equipped with 1.5GHz quad-core madness, teased by a familar slide

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How aggressive can NVIDIA get? That's the question puzzling our brainboxes right now as we gaze upon the complete version of the slide that let us know about a potential Tegra 2 3D chip over the weekend. It's not every day you hear of a 1.5GHz quad-core mobile SOC, but our discovery of corroborating evidence for the T25 module sitting alongside it makes us more willing to credit the possibility of a Blu-ray-crunching, 13,800
MIPS-capable, multicore Cortex-A9 Tegra 3. Moreover, the roadmap of production samples in Q4 of 2010 fits perfectly with NVIDIA's claim that Tegra 3 was "almost done" in September of that year. The ULP designation on this listing stands for Ultra Low Power in NVIDIA parlance, which would indicate an aggressively tuned power management system -- the only way we can envision a quad-core anything operating within a tablet. Fall 2011 is when we should know for sure.

http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/24/n...ness-teased-b/

[sruon]

Guess I'll skip on the Tegra 2...

[xerodok]

So I can finally play Crisis 2 on the go? MY DREAMS ARE COMING TRUE.

[Antithesis]

Guess I'll skip on the Tegra 2...

Might as well skip this as well since they'll be coming out with the Tegra 4 in 2012 with a hexacore.

[Chicomagiko]

What kind of battery life are we looking at here? Will I have to carry around a solar panel?

[Antithesis]

Actually, the Tegra 2 is suppose to offer better battery life than single core CPU's since it can split the work between the two cores (Gets the work done faster and uses less power.) As for the quad cores... we probably should advance our battery technology before we move up from two cores lol.

[Senoska]

This sounds too good to be true. There's gotta be a catch.

[dejet]

This sounds too good to be true. There's gotta be a catch.

1hour of battery life. ~_~ lol

they can make almost as many cores as they want. the question is how much power is it going to draw.

[Chicomagiko]

Considering the Atrix has a 1900Mah battery and is still pretty slim, I'm pretty sure that as Anti mentioned, battery tech will advance accordingly to the required usage. It's becoming more and more easier as the technology to create more power and less usage of said power advances.

Tegra 2 as it is now outputs far more than than its draw.