NVIDIA Kal-El Tegra 3 Arrives in October

AMD may have taken a long time to finally deliver its Fusion technology, but it looks like NVIDIA is going through a phase of product delays as well, in this case involving the next-generation Tegra SoC.

Intel's long dispute with NVIDIA over whether or not the latter was allowed to keep making chipsets for its x86 CPUs left NVIDIA out of the PC chipset market.

Fortunately, the ARM architecture chose more or less the same time to gain profile and extend beyond the mobile segment.

Now, NVIDIA has a division dedicated to making ARM-based platforms, and while the first Tegra, as it is called, did not manage to impress, the Tegra 2 did land in most tablets out and about at the moment.

Meanwhile, the Santa Clara, California-based GPU maker has been preparing the Tegra 3, but it looks like it won't be able to unleash it as fast as originally planned.

Granted, that Kal-El, as it is otherwise known, was suffering a delay is something that was discovered yesterday and had been hinted at by rumors speaking of the ASUS Eee Pad Transformer being scheduled for October.

One should also not forget a certain other detail that NVIDIA recently let slip, namely that phones based on the Kal-El aren't due until the first quarter of next year (2012).

All this, as the folks over at Android and Me concluded and, eventually, got official confirmation for (though the company only mentioned fall as the target), led to the conclusion that October really is the time of arrival for the quad-core mobile SoC (system-on-chip).

For those that want a reminder, the Kal-El Tegra 2 has four Cortex-A9 ARM cores, each with a frequency of up to 1.5 GHz. There is also a 12-core GPU that can handle resolution of up to full HD (1,920 x 1,200 pixels).