NVIDIA's Project Kal-El: World's First Mobile Quad-Core A9s Processor

NVIDIA just dropped a bombshell. While we're drooling over the very first Tegra-2-powered devices to hit the market, NVIDIA is already looking ahead to the next generation. Dubbed "Project Kal-El," the new Tegra chip will be the world's first mobile quad-core processor, includes a new 12-core GPU and will offer 5X performance over Tegra 2 in devices that could begin production late this summer. Not only is its third generation Tegra architecture, codenamed Kal-El, back from the fab but it's up and running Android after only 12 days.

Nvidia Kal-El will begin sampling soon and NVIDIA claims you'll be able to buy tablets based on it in August of this year, with smartphones following before the end of the year.
The SoC race just got a lot hotter, read on to find out what we know about Nvidia's Project Kal-El.