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September 20, 2011 09:05 pm
Original Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/reuvi9U305I/Nvidias-Kal-El-Tegra-Will-Have-Fifth-Companion-Core
Nvidia's Kal-El Tegra Will Have Fifth "Companion Core"
Blacklaw writes with an article in Thinq about the upcoming quad core Tegra chipset. Quoting the article: "Nvidia has released a few technical details of its upcoming 'Kal-El' Tegra processor, including a secret it's done well to keep under its hat thus far: it's a five-core, not four-core, chip."The fifth core will be clocked lower and is intended to let the system use little power without having to fully suspend. A few years ago Openmoko had a vaguely similar idea to include a microcontroller for low-resource idle tasks (e.g. gps logging), but this design is superior since it should be more or less transparent to user space programs. 
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