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Nvidia Demos 'Kal-El' Quad-Core Tegra Mobile CPU

Posted by timothy on from the superman-approved dept.

MojoKid writes "Nvidia just took the wraps off their first quad-core Tegra mobile processor design at the Mobile World Conference today and it's a sight to behold. Dubbed Kal-El, the new chip will be capable of outputting 1440P video content and offer 300 DPI on devices with a 10.1" display. Nvidia is claiming that Kal-El will deliver 5x the performance of Tegra 2 and ship with a 12-core GeForce GPU as well. The company has also posted two different videos of Kal-El in action."

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  1. Re:1440p? by beelsebob · · Score: 3, Informative

    not true. 1440p, as with 720p and 1080p refers to the number of rows. 1440p would be 1920 pixels wide at 4:3 or 2560 pixels wide at 16:9.

  2. power consumption? by crunzh · · Score: 4, Insightful

    They write nothing about power consumption... I am disappointed. The most important benchmark of a mobile CPU is power consumption, I can stick a atom in a cellphone to get a lot of cpu power, but the batteries will be toast in no time.

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    1. Re:power consumption? by CAIMLAS · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Incorrect. The latest atoms (granted, not readily available for consumption) are fast and lower power than some of the leading ARM smartphone CPU/SoCs (or at least comparable on a perf/watt basis).

      Your biggest power drains in a smartphone will be:

      * Cellular and WiFi radios
      * Display
      * Crap software - poorly implemented drivers for the above, in addition to poorly implemented 3D/etc. drawing mechanisms which ineffectively utilize the processor, draw a lot on the screen, and so on.

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  3. Re:Kneel before who, now? by FatdogHaiku · · Score: 3, Interesting

    You mean something like this?
    http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-02-10/meet-motorola-s-mighty-morphin-laptop-phone-duo-tech-by-rich-jaroslovsky.html

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  4. slashdot making assumptions again by OrangeTide · · Score: 4, Informative

    Their demonstration showed 2560x1440 content.

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