Tegra II officially announced
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We have known about this powerful processor chip for some time now, but yesterday Nvidia made it official. The system on a chip features 4 Cortex A9 cores, and can play HD videos at 1080P and process demanding 3D graphics without breaking a sweat.
Nvidia claims the new chip will even outperform an Intel Atom, as can be seen on this chart below.
Tegra 2 will be made with a more advanced 40-nanometer process than its predecessor which was sized at 65-nanometer. The chip is showing up in many tablet and slate devices, and appears to be aimed directly at taking on the desktop processors in these niches.
Read more about Tegra 2Â here.
