WORLD FIRST MOBILE QUAD-CORE CPU
The Eee Pad Transformer may be wowing tablet lovers with its unbeatable price-to-features ratio today, but ASUS looks to have its sights set on even mightier devices for the future. DigTimes reports that the Taiwanese business is tough at work on a Tegra three tablet -- built around the spectacular Kal-El quad-core SOC that we saw demonstrated at MWC 2011.
too as one more one running an Intel CPU. As far as the Intel slate is concerned, we're almost certainly looking at the tablet-centric 1.5GHz Atom Z670, which promises 1080p playback and excellent battery life. You will forgive us if we reserve our excitement for the Tegra 3-powered tablet, nevertheless, which need to be able to churn through really some much more pixels than standard old 1080p. There's no indication on when ASUS intends to deliver it, but NVIDIA's roadmap for devices with the quad-core chip expects to begin appearing in August. Video of that awe-inspiring MWC demo follows soon after the break.
