14 DAY TRIAL // NVIDIA's Tegra 2 application processor might be the hot topic of the day, but it might soon be shadowed by its already rumored successor, the NVIDIA Tegra 3, a quad-core mobile chipset expected to make an official appearance no later than next month. According to some of the latest rumors on NVIDIA's SoC (System on a Chip), we might see it unveiled officially during the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona next month, a little over one year after the current Tegra generation was announced officially.
The most interesting part of the deal would be that the quad-core application processor is rumored to sport a clock speed of 1.5GHz, at least this is what a recently leaked slide shows.
It seems that NVIDIA is set to bet a lot on the mobile space, and the next generation application processor that it would deliver for this market area might actually be much more powerful than originally expected.
The new info on Tegra 3 emerged from the same leaked slide that offered some details on the previously rumored NVIDIA Tegra 2 3D chip.
The 13,800 MIPS-capable, multicore Cortex-A9 Tegra 3 is listed there as with production samples availability in Q4 2010, which means that the product is already finished, something that NVIDIA already said last year.
Of course, specific info on the chip lacks at the moment, but chances are that it would all be annoucned officially in a matter of weeks.
NVIDIA is set to deliver the chip for devices that have very low power needs, which means that smartphones and tablet PCs might very well sport such processors in the not too far future, just as previously rumored.
However, it remains to be seen whether NVIDIA would indeed pack these chips in such devices, or what other mobile products would be powered by it, as the company did not unveil specific info on the matter until now.