Well not only a couple hours after we post about Tegra 3 possibly being announced at MWC 2011, it gets confirmed, displayed and shown off in a working Android device. nVidia also let loose their roadmap for future which, in 2 1/2 years time, nVidia plans to have a chip out that is 75x faster than the Tegra 2.
nVidia demoed the quad-core Tegra 3 chip in an Android tablet today at MWC 2011 doing all kinds of awesome stuff like running games and video. In fact the video they played was 1440p content running on a 2560×1600 panel. This means that 10.1″ displays will be outputting video at 300dpi without a hiccup or stream that right to your TV.
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nVidia also revealed their timeline with three new chips planned for release over the next 2 1/2 which the last one landing in 2014. These chips are codenamed: Wayne, Logan and Stark (seems like some X-men stuff going on here doesn’t it?) with Stark being the furthest one with a 2014 release and according to nVidia, it will have 75x the speed of Tegra 2.
All we can say is, we want now! Check out the full post below from nVidia’s Tegra site. for reference, Project Kal-el is the Tegra 3 chip. We should be seeing quad-core chips in Android tablets by August and in Android phones by Christmas 2011.
Developer Website: nVidia
Tegra Roadmap Revealed: Next Chip to be World’s First Quad-Core Mobile Processor
By Mike Rayfield
Twelve days ago, an amazing thing happened.
Project Kal-El came into the building, shepherded by a team of engineers from around the world, who had been working around the clock for months. For the uninitiated, the entrance that I’m referring to was by none other than the next generation of our Tegra super chip.
Today at Mobile World Congress (MWC), we demonstrated this little beauty running in an Android tablet. We not only showed that it was alive. We showed it browsing the Web, running games and streaming amazing video. This wasn’t your average amazing video. It was 1440p video content running on a 2560×1600 panel. That will enable mobile devices to output to the highest resolution monitors or tablets equipped with a 10.1-inch display with 300 DPI.
I should mention, in passing, that this is the first mobile quad-core processor. And that it contains a new 12 core GeForce GPU. And that our customers are getting samples now. And that they’re planning production in August.
While demonstrating Kal-El was exciting, we also gave a glimpse of our roadmap here at MWC. It includes Projects codenamed Wayne, Logan, and Stark, coming out in a steady one-year cadence over the next three years. You might well ask, What on earth can be done with the nearly 100x improvement in performance over Tegra 2 that Stark will provide in 2014? Our customers and partners have already indicated that they’re confident they can use everything we give them.
If you’ve followed NVIDIA, you know the relentless velocity of innovation that we’ve brought to the PC space with our GeForce processors. Prepare for that same intensity to play out in the mobile space.
While we demonstrated this to our customers and press today, you can come by and see it live in our booth at MWC in Barcelona tomorrow.
I left CES thinking this was going to be the most exciting year of my career. Now, I know it will be.
I can’t wait to see the next wave of super phones and super tablets.
