Nvidia Kal-El has a 5th core

[Derrick]

http://mybroadband.co.za/news/quick-news/34382-nvidia-kal-el-sports-5th-core.html

The next generation Nvidia Tegra processor will feature a fifth core for low power computing...

 

[AstroTurf]

Awesome idea

 

[scotty777]

I read about this yesterday... How the fark are they getting core2duo performance out of something that consumes around a watt of power

If I were intel right now, my arse hole will have that nervous gitter because soon enough!! all I know is that... I want

 

[Ockie]

Sounds cool. I thought Nvidia only makes GPU's? Also, aint Nvidia part of AMD now...or is that ATI? Urg...cant keep up.

Wait a minute...are we talking about cellphones or netbooks here cause cellphones only have 2 cores at the mo max?

 

[SCHUMI-4-EVA]

nVidia is on it's own
It's AMD that bought ATi and in fact ATi is no more since AMD decided that Radeon itself stands as a brand.

Also this is tablet news more than cellphone news.

 

[scotty777]

Sounds cool. I thought Nvidia only makes GPU's? Also, aint Nvidia part of AMD now...or is that ATI? Urg...cant keep up.

Wait a minute...are we talking about cellphones or netbooks here cause cellphones only have 2 cores at the mo max?

ha ha, Ockie, Nvidia is investing heavily into making their own mobile processors, and they using their graphics card knowledge to lay some serious smack down

nVidia is on it's own
It's AMD that bought ATi and in fact ATi is no more since AMD decided that Radeon itself stands as a brand.

Also this is tablet news more than cellphone news.

Correct, and also incorrect.
The Tegra 3 will be aimed at both Smart phones and tablets (the latter obviously getting a more powerful beast). So you could, and will probably start seeing quad core phones soon .

Also, i read that the new Tegra 3 processor will use so little power it's not fair! Ha ha, gotta love development

 

[SCHUMI-4-EVA]

I know quads are coming to phones but I just don't see it working. Way too much heat unless they take the original multi-core approach of just clocking everything way lower and then single cores will be more powerful for most for a while.

The only upcoming phone processor I'm interested in is Medfield, if it really can curb battery use as much as it thinks it can (though phone manufacturer will likely just start putting smaller batteries in to max profits since charge nightly has become the norm).