Smartphone "Quad Core" at Low Prices Coming Soon

Tablet Nexus 7 from Google reportedly is not the only piece of "cheap" that carries a quad core processor Tegra 3. Nvidia, the chip maker, is planning to expand its platform called "Kai" her into the realm of smartphones.

Kai is the Tegra platform 3 are made to be compatible with other components (such as memory and screens) are less expensive to allow the creation of more affordable devices, such as the Nexus 7.

The main attraction of the tablet Nexus 7 is a relatively friendly price, which is 199 dollars or less than $ 2 million. Although relatively inexpensive, thanks to the Nvidia Tegra 3 is embedded in it, Nexus 7 could have a quad core processors and GPU core 12.

Cheap smartphone platform based "Kai" is predicted to become available in late 2012. A number of Chinese mobile phone manufacturers such as Huawei and ZTE will allegedly be the partner of Nvidia.

Earlier in February, ZTE was showing a smartphone-based quad-core processor Tegra 3, but the device has not been officially launched.

Depending on the final price set by Nvidia, by Kai on smartphone platforms, the company will be dealing with manufacturers who also make low-cost chips, such as Qualcomm, ST and MediaTek.