2012 Tablet PC will be quad-core world

With the prevalence of the iPad, tablet PCs suddenly blew up in the world. Seeing the iPad's big mouth erode the market share, Anroid's tablet can't help but compete. However, in the face of iPad's reputation, excellent industrial design and amazing market share, what weapons can Android compete with iPad? The answer is: hardware configuration. So we see bigger screens, bigger memory, and faster and more core processors.

Anroid tablet manufacturers have a rough road ahead. Apple iPad series is currently the second generation, configuration is only a dual-core 1G CPU, 512M of memory, but the actual use of results is better than most Android dual-core tablet, which difference comes from Apple's own product hardware and software optimization , But Anroid tablet makers can't spend a lot of energy to do research for Google's system, so improving the configuration is the easiest and most effective way. As the lifeblood of computer products, the speed of CPU directly affects the consumers' Satisfaction, then four core CPUs turned out.

Let's take a closer look at this 4-core CPU: NVIDIA produced the Tegra 3 processor, quad-core maximum frequency of 1.3GHz, internal integration of 12-core GeForce GPU, CPU performance up to 5 times that of Tegra 2, GPU performance is Tegra 2 times 3, while its power consumption is also lower than the dual-core Tegra 2. Recently, NVIDIA also expressed its great expectations for its Tegra 3, and plans to ship at least 25 million Tegra 3 processors next year. It can be imagined that next year the tablet will be a quad-core world.

The first manufacturer of early adopters Tegra 3 was ASUS. As the first quad-core tablet, Transformer Prime came with the name of “King Huang” in the eyes of thousands of people. For a time, domestic and foreign media reported that they had exhausted their eyes. . Other manufacturers are not to be outdone. The dark horse HTC of the mobile phone industry also said that it will focus its business on the 4-core mobile phone and the board next year. Industry giant Lenovo also revealed that it will launch a new quad-core tablet PC based on NVIDIA Tegra 3 at the end of this year. Acer’s President Weng Jianren also said in an interview with the media that it will launch the Iconia Tab series tablet PC with Tegra 3 in 2012.

Looking at the emergence of so many new generations of tablets, in addition to joy, perhaps we need to worry a little more. Hardware stacking endless, quad-core Anroid even temporarily won the iPad2, but the next three generations of iPad release will certainly reverse the situation, when the Anroid camp is not to calculate the 8-core? What makes iPad better than other tablets is that its iOS system runs more smoothly than Anroid in an equivalent or even slightly lower configuration. The future of Android cannot rely solely on hardware.