Nvidia Declares Its New Processor Core, Kal-El, To Be More Compatible With Quad-Core Mobile Graphics

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The Tegra graphics processor of Nvidia is perhaps technologically the most advance processor in the market of graphics today, especially the Android devices. Recently Nvidia has made the announcement that it is planning to upgrade its already dominant processer for mobile graphics, which will lead the market in future. It was in February, that the initial announcement of the upcoming Kal-El quad-core mobile graphics chip was made publically. Nvidia has released new upgrade regarding the progress of its processor, publishing a demo video displaying the most excellent technology behind Kal-El, allowing it to perform in real-time lighting and physics capabilities on a HoneyComb Android table. This promo video is titled as “GlowBall,” and it shows the features a glowing ball lighting up and moving through a 3D “creepy funhouse” environment.

According to the official blog website of Nvidia, its writer, Matt Wuebbling wrote that “this shows off the power of true dynamic lighting, rendered in real-time with physics (no canned animations here, folks),” adding that “this marks the first time this type of lighting is feasible on a mobile device.”

Nvidia has measured that its new Kal-El gives almost five times better graphic performance than the preceding Tegra 2 processor, which is already housed in devices like the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 and Motorola Xoom at this time. In contrary to Tegra 2, the Kal-El works on the quad-core processor in the Android device, supplemented by a 12-core graphics processor. The video promo displayed by Nvidia allegedly only shows the GlowBall, but does not reveals whether the chip will be working in real-time: shutting down two of the device’s main processor cores has a dramatic impact on Glowball’s overall performance.

Rumors of the 2 Amazon Tablets Become More Elaborated; both Code-Named Coyote and Hollywood

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Further leaked information has supported the rumors claiming an upcoming tablet from Amazon. Amazon is one of the most widely used online retailers and is renowned for its gadget; Kindle e-reader. This new information leaked by a source, called Boy Genius Report, enlists that Amazon has couple of devices in the process, which expected to be released in the market sometime before 2012.

Even though the details of these upcoming tablet devices remains ambiguous, it has been informed that of one these devices will be only an entry-level tablet, code-named by the company as "Coyote." Coyote will be housing a dual-core Tegra 2 processor, launched earlier this year, also used in the Xoom tablet of Motorola. While the second tablet is code-named as "Hollywood," wgucg will probably be having an expensive ultra-powerful quad-core processor, the Tegra 3 T30. This high performance processor will have the capacity of displaying almost three times better graphics than the previous version.