NVIDIA Tegra 2 has found its place on the Popular Science magazine’s Best of What’s New 2011 list. The first commercially available ARM-based dual-core processor is now used in over 60 phones in 70 countries, and in more than 20 tablet models available in 60 countries.
If you remember, everything started with the Motorola Xoom, which was the first Tegra 2-powered device. After that, it was used in such devices like the T-Mobile LG G2x, Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1, Sony Tablet S and Asus Eee Pad Transformer.
The dual-core Tegra 2 chip not only provides additional horse-power to devices using it, but also conserves battery life, drawing just a tenth the juice used by its predecessors while still smoothly rendering high-def video. It does its magic by dividing tasks — video encode and decode, image processing and audio — among groups of transistors, and it activates those areas only when it needs them.
That’s all cool, but now we want to test the Tegra 3. 😉