NVIDIA’s Upcoming Tegra ‘Kal-El’ Processor To Feature Five Cores!

NVIDIA published two technical white papers yesterday that reveal some brand-new architecture details behind its next-gen quad-core Tegra chip, Project Kal-El. The papers talk about how consumers will get better battery life AND higher performance per watt from a quad-core chip like Kal-El, compared to todays leading dual-core chips. All these benefits are due to a new Kal-El technology – variable symmetric multi-processing (vSMP) that introduces a new patented 5th Companion Core for low power operation. This new low-power companion core is used for web reading, music and video. I have posted both of the white papers on the forums for you to look at in their entirety. The first is titled
“Variable SMP A Multi-Core CPU Architecture for Low Power and High Performance” and the other is titled “The Benefits of Quad Core CPUs in Mobile Devices.”