NVIDIA Kal El project demoed, to make dual-core CPUs obsolete

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This demo was awesome and the point that is interesting is that the game becomes unplayable when they turn off 2 cpus. so sad dual cores are yet to hit Indian market and they are moving towards quad-cores.
 
Now the softwares have to catch up... There should be apps and features that can take advantage of such powerful hardware.
 
well, the battery technology is not even keeping with single cores, leave alone duals...and now this
how much battery can we expect on these ,4 hrs?????
 
tutysara said:
This demo was awesome and the point that is interesting is that the game becomes unplayable when they turn off 2 cpus.
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I hope you understand that a demo is meant to higlight the plus points of the product, sometimes this can be done by showing other product in bad light too. If a demo is optimised to run on 4 cores then it will not run as well on a dual core.
There is no doubt that this will be a very good platform as nVidia's earlier one (Tegra 2) was too.

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so sad dual cores are yet to hit Indian market and they are moving towards quad-cores.
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dual cores are already available in the Indian market. Samsung's Galaxy SII which was launched in April 2011 will be available here as early as the first week of June. LG Optimus X2 is already available. Kal-El based products will not be out till atleast the year-end. from the anandtech link above.
NVIDIA said that Kal-El based devices are on track for release this holiday season. The original commitment was August 2011 but NVIDIA wouldn't be any more specific than to say that we may see some products launch before the holidays.
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I see no point. The only advantage of this is a game, and 99% smartphone owners play Angry Birds. If they could make a smartphone which does all necessary tasks, but with a better battery life(cmon, battery life hasn't improved a bit last few years), I would be impressed.

This, not impressive.

P.S.- It cant run crysis.
 
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Kal-El features four CPU cores and 12 GPU cores. It will have five times the performance and lower power consumption than Tegra 2
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DailyTech - NVIDIA Demos Quad-Core "Kal-El" Tablet Processor

I know that this is just their marketing talk but if they are giving 5x the performance for the same/lower power consumption then shouldn't you be happy? Even if the chip utilises about 50% of the total battery power in a smartphone, theoretically you should get around 40% more battery life if everything else is constant.

In any case nVidia is not maufacuring smartphones, just the SOC to be used in smartphones.
The problem is that advancements in battery tech move at a much slower pace than in the semiconductor tech.
 
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