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Nvidia has announced a new tablet with a focus on becoming more of a gaming console rather than  a standalone tablet .The tablet , named as JDX S192 is known as "Retro" and this is probably due to the fact that the internals are almost the same as the Nvidia K1 tablet .The retro tablet , armed with 2GB of RAM and a Quadcore  K1 Soc is somewhat old school in this day and age but the fact that it runs Android 4.2.2 Jellybean means that the device lives up to its Retro name indeed .The tablet features a 7" 1920x1080p IPS display , 32GB of storage and a massive 10,000 mAh battery along with a 13mp main snapper at the back .The tablet is said to go on sale starting May 6th for GBP 220 ($316). Source - Slashgear

Nvidia is packing Christmas presents in the form of Android updates for the Shield tablet this season , the tablet was one of the first devices to receive a OEM update to Android 5.0 and now Nvidia is pushing Android 5.0.1 to Shield tablets which include general bug fixes , better interface fluidity , OpenGL 4.5 and better power management overall .The update has already rolled out so be sure to check for updates if you didn't recieve the update notice on your Nvidia Shield tablet Features added in the new update *OpenGL 4.5 *shield power control *live HD Effects in camera Written by Rakitha for MasHD Source - AndroidPolice

The Nvidia Shield is probably one of the best Android tablets to date , the average pricing and exceptional performance thanks to Nvidia's Kepler powered K1 chipset and timely updates including Android 5.0 are just some of the good things about the $299 tablet .Being a Nvidia Tegra device , the Shield supports NvidiaTegraZone  - which is Nvidia's own game and app store for tegra devices . Games like Trine 2 and Half Life were pre installed in the device and now Half Life 2  Episode One is available for those  who own a Shield tablet . The App on its own costs $7.99 but if you happen to own a Shield tablet with LTE ($399) the game is available free for download . The app is 2.65GB and it is recommended you have a separate controller for moving around  . The game is sadly not available to users who own older Tegra devices powered by the Tegra 3 and Tegra 4 processors which include the Tegra Shield portable . Written by Rakitha for MasHD Source - SlashGear

Apple was quite silent about their A8X processor's specs when it was launched in the new Apple iPad Air 2 , at first we speculated that Apple used a dual core variant with Apples Motion processor package , but now as benchmark websites point out , the Apple A8X Soc is actually a 3 core unit which when coupled with the Air 2's 2GB RAM makes the tablet one of the new benchmark kings in town . The A8X and its PowerVR GX6450 GPU are currently top dogs at GeekBench with a score of 4477 at Multicore and 1812 at Single core performance  , which is a score that puts the new A8X away from the current Android top dog processors like the Tegra K1 which scored 3258 at Multicore and 1803 at Single core performance . Other benchmarks are still underway , but we can expect the performance gap to be neck and neck at some places like graphics where the Kepler GPU can truly prove its worth , but then again the PowerVR Rogue series of GPU's are no slouch either ,but till then , these prelim...

The Nvidia Shield tablet is finally official , the tablet , which was leaked a few days prior to the official launch was almost 100% accurate in giving out the exact specs so the launch is a bit "meh" ,however it it , the Nvidia Shield tablet is nothing short in being awesome , the sound of having a Kepler GPU and a low price will surely make this another thing to have , if you are after a tablet which has the properties of the Shield console . The tablet at first looks a bit like a stretched out HTC One , this look mainly comes from the front facing speakers which are surely a plus if you want some quality audio that is not muffled when you place it on a table . The tablet features a DirectStylus 2  "pen" for graphic applications such as Nvidia Dabbler - a pre installed software for drawing using watercolor effects and the usual Android apps like Photoshop touch and et al .Even with the tuck in stylus silo on the rear , the tablet measures at a good 9.2mm...

Nvidia launched their Tegra Note reference tablet last year , the tablet featured a stylus , front facing speakers , front and rear cameras and of course , Nvidia's flagship Tegra 4 processor , the tablet was sold at a bargain price of $199 and it was adopted as a reference design by HP,Evga ,Micromax and many other smaller OEM's who wanted a off the shelf product , to which they can add their name to . The tablet however didn't sell that many units , but Nvidia hopes that the introduction of their processors in Tablets will make the chipset popular among tablet manufacturers as they are the only capable mobile CPU maker that can take on the expansion of Qualcomm . Nvidia promotes their chipsets as being  "gaming oriented" and this can be attributed to the fact that Nvidia uses its own CUDA and Kepler mobile GPU's in their mobile devices . With the Tegra 4 ending its life cycle , the flagship baton is passed down to the Nvidia K1 , which at the moment ...

After the announcement of Nvidia's Tegra K1 , aka Logan at CES in January , the chip company didn't reveal any further details about their next mobile cpu. Along with the announcement of the Pascal GPU architecture ,Nvidia announced details about the next generation Tegra mobile processor codenamed Tegra Erista .If you are into comics , Erista is the Son of Logan , And Logan in Nvidia's case is the codename for Nvidia Tegra K1 ,The K1 was the first Tegra chip to feature the 192 Kepler GPU cores and was designed using the 64Bit ARMV8 architecture .Erista on the other hand also uses the ARMV8 64Bit design , but the Erista uses Nvidia's Maxwell GPU , the Maxwell GPU cores were announced in 2013 , but now it seems the GPU technology has shifted to mobile use . The Tegra Erista will support DirectX 12 and will also support Unreal Engine 4 for mobile . The chipset is due for launch in 2015 (hopefully at CES next January),The Tegra K1 is scheduled for launch in Q2 of this...

Related articles CROP CIRCLES unreal engine 4 At its CES press conference, NVIDIA finally revealed the marketing name for Project Logan - NVIDIA's latest mobile SoC: Tegra K1. NVIDIA hasn't said much about the architectural details about its latest Tegra SoC, other than to confirm that it features 192 CUDA cores. Since we already know Tegra K1 is based on NVIDIA's Kepler GPU architecture, and a single Kepler SMX features 192 CUDA cores, we know that K1 uses a single Kepler SMX. With K1, NVIDIA ditches the GeForce ULP GPU core that was present in the previous four generations of Tegra and moves mobile onto the same roadmap as the desktop/notebook GeForce. NVIDIA used the slide below that seems to imply convergence between the Tegra and GeForce architectures going forward, even beyond Kepler. Tegra K1 will be available in quad-core Cortex A15 (+1 shadow Cortex A15 core) and dual-core Denver (64-bit ARMv8) versions. The Cortex A15 version will be avaduilable in 1H...