NVIDIA Tegra 3

Asus is the only company that’s officially announced plans to launch an Android tablet with NVIDIA’s new Tegra 3 quad-core processor. The Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime tablet is scheduled to start shipping in December. But it looks like device makers are lining up left and right to ride the Tegra 3 chain.

This morning we found evidence that Lenovo and Acer are both working on tablets using NVIDIA’s new mobile processor. Now Commercial Times reports that HTC will launch its first quad-core tablet a the Mobile World Congress trade show in February.

HTC is also reportedly preparing to launch a smartphone with the same high-performance, low-power quad core chip.

While software details are scarce, I suspect the devices will ship with Google Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. Device makers such as HTC, Samsung, and Dell usually need a few months to work with Android source code once it’s released before they’re ready to ship products using the latest operating system.

Since Google hasn’t yet released the source code for Android 4.0, Asus plans to ship the Transformer Prime with Android 3.2 Honeycomb and offer an Ice Cream Sandwich software update later. Other companies appear to be waiting to launch their next-generation devices with the new operating system.

via DigiTimes

Support Liliputing

Liliputing's primary sources of revenue are advertising and affiliate links (if you click the "Shop" button at the top of the page and buy something on Amazon, for example, we'll get a small commission).

But there are several ways you can support the site directly even if you're using an ad blocker* and hate online shopping.

Contribute to our Patreon campaign

or...

Contribute via PayPal

* If you are using an ad blocker like uBlock Origin and seeing a pop-up message at the bottom of the screen, we have a guide that may help you disable it.

Subscribe to Liliputing via Email

Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Join 9,547 other subscribers