ASUS CEO Jonney Shih has made an impressive unveiling, saying that Nvidia’s Kal-El quad core CPU will debut as soon as November 9th. How does he know that? Well, he IS the head of a company that actually made the first tablet based on this CPU: ASUS Transformer Prime… that will come on the same date.
Kal-El, aka Nvidia Tegra 3 is the latest generation of CPUs from Nvidia and it was supposed to come out at the end of the summer or early September, but power management problems pushed it back. Now it will surface on the fresh ASUS gear, that packs a 10 inch display and measures a very thin 8.3mm in thickness. Nvidia officials blame the delay on software optimization for the hardware, but it may not be entirely true…
We’ve heard that Nvidia wasn’t in fact able to achieve the promised 5X time performance of the Tegra 2, so they pushed the product will it was ready o deliver. Asus Transformer Prime was announced on stage at the AsiaD conference last week and it should bring a very impressive 14.5 hours of battery life and pack USB and mini HDMI ports, plus an SD card reader. Word has it that the slate doesn’t come with Android 4.0, but it will get it as an update.
