NVIDIA’s President and Chief Executive, Jen-Hsun Huang, has confirmed that Google Android tablets running NVIDIA’s quad-core processor (codenamed Kal-El ) will be available by the end of the year.
It remains to be seen who will be first to launch this quad-core Android tablet. Amazon looks to have fallen out of the running with its Hollywood tablet pushed out to 2012 (and perhaps losing its quad-core processor entirely) but Asus (the Eee Pad Transformer 2?) and Motorola (a XOOM successor) are both rumoured to have tablets in development.
Earlier this year, NVIDIA expected to have not only quad-core tablets but quad-core smartphones out by the end of the year. Huang now indicates that the smartphones will likely not launch until 2012.
Qualcomm, also working on quad-core processors, is not expected to have silicon with similar capabilities ready until the end of the year, suggesting that devices would only be available in 2012.