NVIDIA’s Tegra 3 (Quad Core) Offers 3X Graphics Boost
The Tegra 3 chip by NVIDIA, quite like its Tegra 2 predecessor, is bound to be a real beast. Sporting four Cortex A9 cores, the SoC will apparently also carry a graphics processor that will be three times faster than Tegra 2 which, quite frankly, is completely absurd (in a good way). The Tegra 3′s graphics accelerator will also accelerate Flash, which is good news. The Tegra 2 SoC is already one of the fastest mobile solutions on the market – being essentially a “premium” SoC for tablets and mobile phones – and the aggressive forward movement to Tegra 3 indicates that it is a perch that NVIDIA does not want to be dislodged from. Also good news, some low-level software and drivers written for Tegra 2 will work on Tegra 3 from day one, meaning a lot of work already done by handset / tablet makers today, as well as NVIDIA themselves, can be transferred more easily to Tegra 3, which should rapidly increase its maturation. It seems that partners will already have their hands on the Tegra 3 chip as the sampling date was Q4 2010. Perhaps an unveling at the Mobile World Congress that’s coming up in Barcelona?
via ubergizmo
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