Asus will be throwing the Tegra of Steel into its next tablet.
Various reports are indicating that Asus is currently working on a tablet featuring Nvidia's quad-core Tegra 3, aka "Kal-El."
The news follows the recent launch of the company's Eee Pad Transformer tablet which can be inserted into a keyboard dock and used like a netbook/notebook. Two more tablets are expected to hit the market within the next few months including the Tegra 2-based 10-inch Eee Pad Slider EP102 and the Qualcomm-based 7-inch Eee Pad MeMo EP71.
While absolutely no detail was provided in regards to the Tegra 3 tablet, the upcoming 40-nm SoC is expected to be five times faster than the current Tegra 2. It will come packed with a quad-core ARM Cortex-a9 MPCore processor (clocked up to 1.2 GHz) and a 12-core Nvidia GPU capable of 3D stereo and a screen resolution up to 2560 x 1600. Kal-El is expected to be released in the second half of 2011, possibly around August.
In addition to the Tegra 3 tablet, Asus reportedly has a few other Intel-based tablets up its sleeve. Although specifics weren't provided, it's speculated that Asus may be using the 1.5 GHz Intel Atom Z670 CPU which promises a long battery life and 1080p playback.
Wednesday Asus CEO and president Jerry Shen said the company "aims to ship two million tablet PCs in 2011."
Battery life is going to be terrible...nVidia even said so in their demos of this :-)
I'm with you on this. Display is the bigger sucker (pun intended) of power, though, from my personal experience on such devices.