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[quote]Forget dual-core smartphones and tablets – those are so last month – quad-core mobile processing is all the rage these days. This week at Mobile World Congress, NVIDIA announced that they will be the first to market with quad-core mobile processors for tablets in August and smartphones by Christmas of this year.
The company showed off the first demonstration of their new quad-core technology, code-named Kal-El, at the conference with a prototype Android tablet device. The chipset sports four ARM Cortex-A9 cores and a 12-core GPU, which they say will deliver five times the performance of their current Tegra 2 chipset, which has only two ARM Cortex-A9 and eight graphics cores. Kal-El, NVIDIA says, is capable of outputting 2560x1600 resolution at 300 DPI on 10.1-inch tablets or even full-sized TVs and monitors.
What does this development mean for gaming? Quite a bit, actually. Though there is still much we don't know about Sony's powerful new portable, the NGP, we do know that it uses a quad-core CPU and a quad-core GPU to produce PlayStation 3-quality graphics on a handheld. By comparison, the Kal-El packs an additional 4 GPU cores on top of the NGP's 8, which could yield richer, more complex graphics.
If the Kal-El was applied to a tablet, for instance, it could potentially enable mobile platforms like webOS, Android, and Windows Phone 7 to play games of a quality similar to the NGP. Of course, there would have to be considerable effort on the software side to make hardcore gaming on those platforms truly viable, but it is at least technologically feasible.
Who knows where the Kal-El will end up, but it's clear that NVIDIA has big plans for the future – the company plans to announce progressively more powerful mobile chipsets every year for the next three years. In 2014, NVIDIA will introduce a chipset with 75-times the power of Tegra 2, a product they've code-named Project Stark.
Of course, NVIDIA isn't the only player in the space, and Qualcomm plans to offer next-gen chipsets in 2012, but they may have the virtue of being amongst the first and one of the more graphically-focused.[/quote]
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Superman is not going to be happy about people cashing in on his name. Also, mobile gaming is a joke.
Dude this is so fucking tight now I can play Angry Birds on my phone like a fajillion times faster
[QUOTE=Rubs10;28100774]Dude this is so [B]fucking tight[/B] now I can play Angry Birds on my phone like a fajillion times faster[/QUOTE]
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When can I start playing GTA4 on my iPod
It will revolutionize mobile gaming like the N-Gage did!
[QUOTE=fenwick;28100950]It will revolutionize mobile gaming like the N-Gage did![/QUOTE]
Except this is a small yet powerful chipset while that was a clunky device that didn't know if it was a phone or a game device
Kal-El is superman's name right? Awesome, I hope it lives up to it.
I'm wearing a Nvidia shirt right now. :c00l:
How about a handheld gaming device that does nothing but run flash .swf games.
Their dual core phones aren't even out yet
[QUOTE=n0cturni;28101355]How about a handheld gaming device that does nothing but run flash .swf games.[/QUOTE]
why
[QUOTE=TBleader;28101213]I'm wearing a Nvidia shirt right now. :c00l:[/QUOTE]
i bet you get all the girls with that fashion style
I'll get excited once some good mobile games are actually made.
I don't understand how all the 15 year olds think they're gonna play CoD or some shit on a touch screen. Whats the point of gaming a tiny ass screen when you have to put all the buttons on the screen and your fat fingers can block up the entire view.
Angry Birds and other puzzle games is about the best you can do without buttons.
[QUOTE=OutOfExile2;28101365]why[/QUOTE]
A lot of them are simple timewasters that would be perfect for portable gaming, very inexpensive, lack of a game library would not be a factor in unit sales, giant-ass library, etc.
Who cares about mobile gaming anymore? You don't need massive processing power to run stupid little ADD-friendly games that you play for five minutes while you wait for something else to happen.
Remember when dual core processors were like, so fucking incredible? And the thought of 2GHz was mind-blowing?
Technology, man.
I have a feeling that battery life is going to be nonexistent.
[QUOTE=B!N4RY;28103132]I have a feeling that battery life is going to be nonexistent.[/QUOTE]
Now lets see them use this for making high end gaming DSes and psps.
The only use for portable gaming is on 15 hour college road trip, where everyone has their favourite pokemon games.
a phone and an oven in one! :downs:
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Superman is not going to be happy about people cashing in on his name. Also, mobile gaming is a joke.[/QUOTE]Not Superman, it's DC comics that is going to be pissed. isn't superman's real name, Kal-el copyrighted by DC?
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You don't use copyrighted names for a product without permission
[QUOTE=B!N4RY;28103132]I have a feeling that battery life is going to be nonexistent.[/QUOTE]
It'll be better. It's far more efficient and power consumption is split across 4 cores and 1 core isn't overworked with lots of work each core is more or often in a resting or relaxed state which exerts less energy. According to the reports anyways.
nvidia saves the day proud to be green
[quote]Though there is still much we don't know about Sony's powerful new portable, the NGP, we do know that it uses a quad-core CPU and a quad-core GPU to produce PlayStation 3-quality graphics on a handheld.[/quote]
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It works but only because the resolution is so small.
[QUOTE=BCell;28105101]Not Superman, it's DC comics that is going to be pissed. isn't superman's real name, Kal-el copyrighted by DC?
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You don't use copyrighted names for a product without permission[/QUOTE]
how do you know they didnt get permission?
[QUOTE=BCell;28105101]Not Superman, it's DC comics that is going to be pissed. isn't superman's real name, Kal-el copyrighted by DC?
[editline]17th February 2011[/editline]
You don't use copyrighted names for a product without permission[/QUOTE]
A) You can't copyright names. You trademark them.
B) Trademarks are only enforceable when it's possible to confuse the two products.
Really makes me excited to hear about this. I demand more info on the PSP2 now.
I think the article is forgetting about AMD fusion, or is this for dedicated platforms?
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