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Tegra 3 is Here – Quad Core Awesomeness (video)

The next generation of tablet technology has finally been unveiled, in case you didn’t hear, in what is shaping up to be huge shift in the smartphone and tablet industry. We are more excited than we’ve ever been about what’s to come, and it’s closer than you think. While much attention will be focused on

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Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime Stops by the FCC

You’re killing us, Asus. First the Kal-El equipped Transformer Prime made an appearance at the AllThingsD AsiaD conference. Then it was shown off in the wild wearing its Apple-like keyboard dock. Oh, and just yesterday there was that revealing Eee Pad Strategy slide giving away the expected release date. So, what’s next? Traveling to what

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Asus CEO Shows Off New Quad-Core Transformer 2 Tablet

If you’re not satisfied with that dual-core processor in your tablet, check out the new Transformer 2 tablet from Asus, which boasts a super speedy quad-core NVIDIA Tegra 3 chip and measures in at just 8.3mm thick. The device was shown off at AllThingsD’s AsiaD conference in Hong Kong yesterday by Jonney Shih, Asus’ Chief Executive

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Video of NVIDIA Tegra 3 Shows Up on YouTube

Nvidia’s new Tegra 3 processor, or “Kal-El,” is by all accounts going to be a beast, set to ring in the future of next generation, quad-core mobile device goodness capable of bringing consumers console level graphics and video at desktop level performance. Could we see a new tablet device packed with the processor in the near

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Latest Xcode Release Suggests Apple is Already Working on a Quad-Core iPad

There’s no denying that the iPad 2 is incredibly quick. I’ve been using the device since its release back in March, and I’m yet to do anything on it that is even remotely struggling for that dual-core A5 processor. It seems someone in Cupertino, however, wants it even faster. How about a quad-core CPU? In

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NVIDIA Kal-El Processor Has Secret 5th Core, Say Whitepapers

At one time, not even really that long ago, a single 600 MHz processor chip was considered pretty respectable, and hardly anyone gave a second thought to screen resolutions, as we resigned ourselves to the fuzzy displays in our hands and pockets. After all, these aren’t full computers, and no one expected the performance or

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Android Tablets to Get NVIDIA’s Quad-Core CPUs This Year

Think your Android tablet’s too slow to handle your Angry Birds addiction? Good news! NVIDIA has promised that its quad-core processors will be hitting Android tablets near you by the end of 2011, according to the company’s CEO Jen-Hsun Huang. According to Huang, the guys at NVIDIA are “the only people seriously on the dance

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Nvidia Quad-Core Mobile Chips Delayed

Nobody ever said the road to the future wouldn’t be devoid of speedbumps. Silicon Valley chipmaker Nvidia made a big splash in the mobile world at the beginning of this year when their Tegra 2 dual-core processors started showing up in Android smartphones and tablets from the likes of Asus, Motorola, and even the mighty

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Quad-Core: Nvidia Kal-El Shown Running Windows 8 and Android 3

We knew they were coming, and we knew when they were coming, but it’s still a bit of a shock to see them out in the wild. Nvidia announced Project Kal-El, their quad-core chipset for mobile, back in February, saying at the time that the first tablets built around the superchip would ship in August/September

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Rumor: Amazon Offering 2 Tablets to Make Processor Freaks Weep

Amazon planning a tablet? Well, that’s not exactly a new story… but the rumor that a pair of them are in the works to attack the tablet market sure is. According to a tipster over at BoyGenius Report, Amazon may be planning to release two tablets by year’s end. There’s not a lot of details

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NVIDIA Quad-Core Processors: Too Much, Too Soon (video)

With NVIDIA’s quad-core “Kal-El” processors already announced, has the company effectively killed the sales of dual-core devices? At CES last month in Las Vegas, you couldn’t walk more than ten feet without someone talking about how they had a new product coming out with NVIDIA’s Tegra 2 dual-core processor.  From tablets to phones, it seemed

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NVIDIA Announces Quad-Core Mobile Processors

Just when you thought it was safe to gloat about your gadgets, the dual-core phone you pre-ordered, but haven’t actually used yet, is yesterday’s news. NVIDIA just showed me quad-core for mobile. NVIDIA announced their Tegra roadmap for the next three years, starting with codename “Kal-El,” a quad-core chip with 12 GPUs they claim offers

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