Boasting a 7in HD display, and an Nvidia Tegra 3 quad-core processor, gyroscope and accelerometer, the Nexus 7 is ideally suited to gaming.
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Stunning outside appearances aside, HTC's newest features an NVIDIA Tegra 3 quad-core processor for the Global edition and a Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 dual-core for the LTE iteration.
The NVIDIA Tegra 3 processor with a 5th battery saver core helps extend battery life so that nabi XD can go up to 10 hours between charges.
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The Cortex-A15 has been benchmarked running twice as fast as the quad-core Nvidia Tegra 3, which, coincidentally, is used in the Surface and the Google Nexus tablet.
It's got an IPS display with 1, 280 x 800 resolution, an NVIDIA Tegra 3 T30 quad-core 1.4GHz processor, 1GB of DDR2 RAM, and Android 4.1 Jelly Bean (at launch).
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The chunky handheld will brandish an IPS display with 1, 280 x 800 resolution, NVIDIA Tegra 3 T30 quad-core 1.4GHz processor, 1GB of DDR2 RAM, at least 16GB storage and Android 4.1 Jelly Bean.
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Among the other specs the Excite 13 touts are a quad-core Nvidia Tegra 3 processor, 1GB of RAM, a 5-megapixel rear facing camera, and four rear-mounted speakers to blast audio from the tablet's aluminum back.
The Transformer AiO has a laundry list of specs: An Intel Core i5 and an NVIDIA Tegra 3, 8GB of RAM on the base station side with 2GB inside the tablet display. 4 USB 3.0 ports, and HDMI out for running a secondary display. (For example, if a user wants to take the tablet and you want to remain working at your desk).
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Game developers are pushing the very concept of portable gaming on tablets and smartphones at a breakneck rate thanks to quad-core processors such as NVIDIA's Tegra 3.
It's a similar story with NVIDIA's Tegra 3 chips for smartphones and tablets, which, at 40nm, are numerically closer to 2011's processors than to newer 32nm and 28nm competitors.
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NVIDIA, which has new Tegra 3 Android tablets entering the market in 2012, will also be a winner from this global expansion.
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Not to worry: its future eight- and 10-inch capacitive tablets, which will be announced at CES, are going to be powered by an NVIDIA Tegra 2 CPU and run Android 3.0.
While these updates are common for tablet upgrades, The Verge reports that the new device will also include a Tegra 3 Processor from NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA), support Android 4.0 or a more recent iteration, come with a wide arrange of storage options (16GB, 32GB, or 64GB), contain 3G connectivity and offer 10 hours of Wi-Fi battery life.
What we didn't know is that the folks at OUYA are working directly with a team of folks at NVIDIA on the project, and that NVIDIA is helping the company to max out its Tegra 3 processor for use on a console rather than a mobile (no battery dependency means the little chip can go much further than usual).
The Android device shares many of the same specifications as the larger A500, including a Tegra 2 processor from NVIDIA and the tablet-optimized 3.0 (Honeycomb) version of Android.
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After all, the more appealing a Tegra 3 platform becomes, the more opportunity for NVIDIA to profit.
Driven by strong demand for its quad-core Tegra 3 processors and the energy-efficient Kepler architecture, Nvidia reported record revenues in Q3.
Tegra 4 will apparently also catch up with USB 3.0, being NVIDIA's first mobile chip to do so, alongside dual-channel DDR3L memory.
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