Nvidia (Nasdaq: NVDA) on Wednesday launched the quad-core mobile Nvidia Tegra 3 processor.
Formerly nicknamed "Project Kal-El," the Tegra 3 has four main cores and a fifth companion core.
It distributes the workload among these using patent-pending variable symmetric multiprocessing (vSMP) technology.
The Tegra 3 includes a 12-core Nvidia GeForce graphics processing unit (GPU).
It's aimed at mobile gamers and provides high-speed access to the Web as well as swift application execution and multitasking.
"Tegra 3 enables great experiences for consumers," Sridhar Ramaswamy, senior technical marketing manager for Tegra at Nvidia, told TechNewsWorld.
The Tegra 3's Guts
The Tegra 3 provides up to three times the graphics performance of the Tegra 2 and consumes up to 61 percent less power, Nvidia claims.
This allows up to 12 hours of battery life for high-definition video playback.
The Tegra 3's four main cores are ARM (Nasdaq: ARMHY) Cortex A9 processors designed for high-performance work such as Web browsing, gaming and multitasking. The fifth CPU is turned off when they are working.
The main cores consume less power than dual-core processors, Nvidia said.
When the device is being used for light tasks such as playing music or video or updating background data, vSMP shuts down the main cores and shifts the work to the fifth CPU.
The Tegra 3 comes with new video engines with support for 1080p high-profile video at 40 Mbps.
Gunning for the Gamers
The Tegra 3 processor offers full game-controller support.
It leverages Nvidia's 3D vision technology and automatically converts OpenGL applications to stereo 3D so consumers can experience 3D on big-screen 3D TV sets.
"Expect to see higher resolution displays, 3D stereoscopic cameras and autostereoscopic displays, higher-quality cameras of up to 32 MP, full 1080p high bit-rate, high-profile Blu-Ray quality, and 3D HDMI 1.4a video output, with up to 2 GB of system memory in some devices," Ramaswamy said.
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