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 graphics to measure up to them, right? Boy, have things...
Young Kal-El rockets away from an exploding Krypton ... apparently bringing quad-core chips with him. 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...
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 of this year. Given that it's now June, it shouldn't really be a surprise to see...
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 like everyone was prepping some sort of...
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. Kal-El is Superman's Kryptonian name ... the new chips will look nothing like this. NVIDIA announced their Tegra roadmap for the next three years, starting with codename “Kal-El,” a quad-...