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Nvidia reveals fifth core in upcoming "Kal-El" Tegra SoC

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  1. Jos TechSpot Staff Posts: 1,672   +22

    We've been hearing about Kal-El and its capabilities for quite a while. Nvidia originally expected the first tablets carrying the quad-core chip to arrive in August but now that date…

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    Jos, Sep 20, 2011
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  2. venomblade Newcomer, in training Posts: 69

    Kal-el? Superman? haha nice
    venomblade, Sep 20, 2011
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  3. Cueto_99 TechSpot Enthusiast Posts: 232   +7

    Nice approach to saving power, would have never thought of having an alternate low power core for energy efficient apps... I'm an AMD guy, but kal-el looks awesome!
    Cueto_99, Sep 20, 2011
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  4. soliozuz Newcomer, in training

    AMD is getting hammered everywhere but at least they are far more competitive on this front, I don't know what they are going to do about their processors. As good of a run as nVIDIA is giving them, I don't think I've seen two companies so fiercely trying to out-compete each other.
    soliozuz, Sep 20, 2011
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  5. gwailo247 TechSpot Chancellor Posts: 2,105   +18

    A companion core? Does it have a little heart on it?
    gwailo247, Sep 21, 2011
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  6. spydercanopus TechSpot Guru Posts: 703   +64

    What's the point in a fifth core unless they can't underclock one of the main four cores, yet the article states they're all Cortex A9's.. So this doesn't make much sense to me.
    spydercanopus, Sep 21, 2011
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  7. Guest

    ..." Nvidia calls this approach "variable symmetric multiprocessing" "...

    Come on! Give me a break!, That's too ambiguous!
    Guest, Sep 21, 2011
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