While we’re all waiting to play with tablets running on Nvidia’s smokey quad-core wonder, Wireless Goodness got its mitts on photos of the chip in the flesh.
It looks pretty much like any other chip, sure—but pause for a minute and consider just how much is lying underneath there: four graphics-socking cores, plus a slower, secret core for menial tasks. You’ll never see it, sealed up inside your next tablet (maybe), but don’t take for granted much we can put on silicon these days. [Wireless Goodness via Engadget]
https://gizmodo.com/inside-nvidias-tegra-3-cpu-and-its-secret-fifth-core-5842171
