Chipmaker Nvidia options this yr to introduce a four-core processor, code-named Venture Kal-El, that need to supply roughly 5 occasions the processing electrical power of its present Tegra chip and, what it says, has significantly more horsepower than an Intel Core two Duo chip.

Briefing reporters at the Mobile Planet Congress in Barcelona, Nvidia explained it ideas to include a 12-core graphics processor along with the quad-core CPU. All that processing oomph need to help “Extreme High definition” graphics with a resolution of up to 2,560 by 1,600 pixels. The chip is now sampling to consumers, Nvidia explained.

The company has far more ambitious goals for subsequent many years, with options to far more than double overall performance in every of the subsequent 3 a long time with chips code-named Wayne, Logan and Stark.

Nvidia’s latest Tegra 2 chip is at the heart of numerous Android phones and a number of Android Honeycomb tablets, including the Motorola Xoom, LG G-Slate and the just-released Samsung Galaxy Tab ten.1.

However, Nvidia isn’t the only organization ramping issues up. Qualcomm introduced a new series of ARM-centered chips on Monday, though its quad-core chip isn’t slated to arrive until eventually 2012.

For a lot more on Nvidia’s ideas for the potential, test out the onstage interview I did with CEO Jen-Hsun Huang at our D@CES occasion in January.


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