Processor loyalties could be split across the wider group, though: ASUS is said to be spreading the love by showing both an Intel-based tablet as well as one using NVIDIA's ARM-powered Tegra line, but Acer's previously rumored tablet is poised to go the Intel-only route, and Toshiba's may exist solely in a TI OMAP-based ARM camp.

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For starters, we're told that the 10.1-inch machine will be ARM-based, while NVIDIA's Tegra platform (likely the second generation) steers the graphical ship.

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Currently, chipsets based on Arm's designs, such as Nvidia's popular Tegra processors, are unable to run Windows.

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They all license their architecture from British firm ARM, which Nvidia cut a deal with in 2005 for its Tegra mobile processors.

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Smartphone hardware is poised to receive a boost in performance and extended battery life thanks to the Tegra 4i, a new 4G LTE mobile processor co-designed by NVIDIA and ARM.

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Incorporating 72 custom NVIDIA GeForce GPU cores and the first quad-core ARM Cortex-A15 CPU, Tegra 4 delivers record-level performance, outstanding graphics, and great battery life to mobile devices.

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