2011 kicked off great for Tegra 2 and will likely continue in the same trend as Nvidia is already preparing its next-generation SoC (system-on-chip) solution, Tegra 3. Claimed to be the world's first quad-core mobile solution, Tegra 3 will feature up to four Cortex-A9 cores clocked at up to 1.5 GHz.
The tablet-prone Tegra 3 chip (aka T30) will also come with three times the graphics performance of its predecessor, an ULP (ultra-low power) CPU mode, will support Blu-ray video and displays with a maximum resolution of 1920 x 1200 pixels.
The smartphone/superphone Tegra 3 offering (AP30) will have two or four cores and support resolutions up to 1366 x 768. Both Tegra 3 have been sampling since the fourth quarter of 2010 and apparently the first devices based on them will launch this fall. This schedule doesn't leave an all that big of a window for Tegra 2-powered hardware so it will be interesting how people react - will they go ahead and but a Tegra 2 tablet or wait it out for Tegra 3? Decisions, decisions...
