Nvidia unveils Kai tablet platform: Tegra 3 Android tablets for $199
The $199 tablet came to reality with the Amazon Kindle Fire. Kind of. It wasn’t a full fledged tablet, but more of a gateway to Amazon’s ecosystem. Half a year after its release, the industry is starting to finally prepare for the first tablets that will offer both a fully functional platform with no limitations and a reasonable price tag.
The Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 (7.0) already set the mark high with the latest Android ICS on board and a dual-core processor, but now Nvidia is unveiling something even better - the Kai tablet platform that will bring quad-core Tegra 3 into the $199 price zone.
Nvidia’s chief executive Jen-Hsun Huang spoke about nearly two months ago promising the first cheap Tegra 3 tablets this summer. But while we didn’t have the details then, now VP Rob Csonger lifted the cover off the idea to bring Tegra 3 to the masses:
Our strategy on Android is simply to enable quad-core tablets running Android Ice Cream Sandwich to be developed and brought out to market at the $199 price point, and the way we do that is a platform we've developed called Kai. So this uses a lot of the secret sauce that's inside Tegra 3 to allow you to develop a tablet at a much lower cost, by using a lot of innovation that we've developed to reduce the power that's used by the display and use lower cost components within the tablet.
source: Nvidia Annual Meeting of Stockholders via TheVerge
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