Nvidia ceo: the price of Tegra 3 tablets drops fast to 299 dollars

The ceo of Nvidia, Jen-Hsun Huang expects that there is a “few quarters” tablets with the new Tegra 3-soc is available for a price of 299 dollars. The quadcore chip is therefore not restricted to high-endtablets.

Asus is the first manufacturer to have a tablet with the Tegra 3 release. This model, the Transformer Prime, with its American introduction in december of the $ 499 cost. The Tegra 3, however, is not restricted to tablets in that price segment, there are also cheaper models with the system-on-a-chip. Nvidia’s ceo said according to Engadget during a press conference to expect that in ‘some quarters’ Tegra 3 tablets with a price tag of 299 dollars on the market.

The Tegra 3 has four Cortex A9 architecture-based cores with a maximum clock speed of 1.3 GHz. In addition, there is a fifth Cortex A9 core at 500MHz, which uses a different type of transistors and, therefore, more economical. Also is the gpu three times as powerful as the Tegra 2. The pronunciation of Jen-Hsun Huang means that, in 2012, affordable tablets come out that are significantly more powerful than the current generation.