Nvidia Reveals Secret 5th Core in Kal-El Phone Chip

PC Magazine - Sascha Segan - 20 Sep, 2011
Nvidia's new Kal-El chipset won't be the first quad-core chip for phones and tablets: it'll be the first quint-core. In a white paper today, Nvidia revealed that Kal-El will include a surprise fifth core, a “companion core” built using ...

Nvidia quad-core chip includes low-power core

MarketWatch - Shara Tibken - 20 Sep, 2011
Nvidia--best known for graphics processors for visually intensive applications--has been counting on its mobile chip, dubbed Tegra, to help offset dwindling revenue in its graphics chipset business. The Santa Clara, Calif., ...

Nvidia Quad-Core Chip Includes A Fifth, Low-Power Core

Wall Street Journal - Shara Tibken - 20 Sep, 2011
NEW YORK (Dow Jones)--Nvidia Corp.'s (NVDA) quad-core mobile chip includes an interesting feature: a fifth core, which the company says will allow the processor to consume less power than dual-core chips from ...

More information about Kal-El chipset, five cores not four?

DroidGamers - 20 Sep, 2011
With Kal-El tablets nearing release later this year and phones coming in early 2012, nVidia has released a couple of new whitepapers with more information about the Kal-El chipset. One interesting fact from the paper notes that Kal-El isn't really ...

Quad-core Nvidia Kal-El actually has five cores

Pocket-lint.com - Hunter Skipworth - 20 Sep, 2011
Nvidia's quad-core Kal-El processor, the next in line to the tablet powerhouse throne, does in fact have five cores. Why is this important? Well as an Nvidia white paper reveals, the extra "companion core" means parts of Kal-El can be power optimised, ...

New Details Released On Nvidia's Kal-El Quad-core Processor in Whitepaper

Phandroid.com - Quentyn Kennemer - 20 Sep, 2011
NVIDIA's released a new whitepaper detailing Kal-El and what they were able to achieve (and what OEMs and you as a user will be able to achieve because of it). Kal El implements a traditional ...

NVIDIA's Kal-El processor will be a 5-core low power chip

Liliputing - 20 Sep, 2011
NVIDIA has been talking up the company's upcoming Kal-El processor for months, promising better performance and lower power consumption in its next-generation chip for mobile phones, tablets, and possibly even Windows 8 computers. ...

Nvidia's Kal-El Tegra to pack five cores

THINQ.co.uk - 20 Sep, 2011
Nvidia has released a few technical details of its upcoming 'Kal-El' Tegra processor, including a secret it's done well to keep under its hat thus far: it's a five-core, not four-core, chip. Tegra, Nvidia's ARM-based mobile processor design, ...

NVIDIA drops some knowledge about multi-core CPUs, more. Kal-El, anyone?

IntoMobile - Blake Stimac - 20 Sep, 2011
It seems just like yesterday when we first saw the video that showcased the amazing graphics performance found in NVIDIA's upcoming quad-core mobile processor, Kal-El. We're finally nearing the end of the waiting period and we may soon see the first ...

Nvidia uncloaks power efficient fifth Companion chip within Kal-El's quad-core ...

Pocket Gamer - Jon Jordan - 20 Sep, 2011
With the processor war between Apple, ARM, Qualcomm, TI, Samsung, Intel and Imagination Technologies now in full cry, the latest news from Nvidia reveals the key issue that's bedevilling the industry: power consumption. ...

NVIDIA releases Kal-El white papers, announces a fifth 'Companion' core for ...

Engadget - Brad Molen - 20 Sep, 2011
We've known about Kal-El -- the quad-core mobile processor from NVIDIA -- for a fair amount of time, but a lot of the finer details have remained a secret as we've anxiously awaited its debut in tablets and ...

Tegra 2 Successor, Kal-El, Actually Has 5 Cores In 4 +1 Configuration.

Gadgetsteria - 20 Sep, 2011
Nvidia's next-gen Tegra 3 “Kal-El” platform has been demoed a time or two before showcasing the brute force four cores will soon bring. The only thing " there's five cores. While Kal-El actually has ARM Cortex A9s with MPE located on each die, ...

NVIDIA details Variable SMP, the brain of quad core mobile computing

SlashGear - 20 Sep, 2011
The folks at NVIDIA are coming out with a quad core processor for mobile devices this year, and they're making no jokes about it happening sooner than later. We've just seen a Windows 8 tablet said to be running on the SoC already, and we're pretty ...

Kal-El Has Five Cores, Not Four: NVIDIA Reveals the Companion Core

AnandTech - Anand Lal Shimpi - 20 Sep, 2011
Last week NVIDIA provided an update on its Tegra SoC roadmap. Kal-El, its third generation SoC (likely to launch as Tegra 3) has been delayed by a couple of months. NVIDIA originally expected the first ...

Tegra 3 Has 5 Cores

Ubergizmo - Hubert Nguyen - 20 Sep, 2011
The upcoming Tegra mobile chip from NVIDIA not contain 4 cores, but 5 cores, and NVIDIA has optimized its new chip to excel at high-performance and low power, two goals that are often contradictory. In a paper entitled “Variable SMP "A Multi-Core CPU ...

NVIDIA expands on Project Kal-El, adds a fifth core

SlashGear - 20 Sep, 2011
Those interested in the processing power of mobile devices running any and all operating systems should be aware of NVIDIA's Project Kal-El, a quad core CPU the group is prepping for a late 2011 released. We first learned about this project (and future ...

NVIDIA's Quad Core Kal-El Processor To Feature Fifth Companion Core

Geeky gadgets - 20 Sep, 2011
We have already seen a video preview of NVIDIA's new quad core mobile processor, codenamed Kal-El, which will be the next generation NVIDIA Tegra processor, which is scheduled to launch before the end of the year. Now NVIDIA has released more details ...

 

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