Andre Yoskowitz
4 Jul 2011 0:55
Despite the fact that no devices featuring Tegra 3 "Kal-El" processors have hit the market yet, Nvidia is actively working on the Tegra 4, codename "Wayne," say sources.
According to the sources, "Wayne" will come in two separate builds, one for smartphones and one for tablets and low-powered netbooks/notebooks.
The first build will be a quad-core design at 1.5GHz built on the ARM Cortex-A15 and a 24-core GPU. Power consumption should be on the level of the current-generation Kal-El Tegra 3 SoC.
Wayne's second build, however, is almost jaw-dropping, given its purpose is for mobile devices. The build will feature eight ARM processing cores and 32-to-64 GPU cores. Each will be DirectX 11+ compliant and even support OpenGL 4.x, OpenCL 1.x and PhysX.
Nvidia is expected to release the Wayne SoC in fall 2012.