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Asus debuts Transformer Prime tablet with quad-core Nvidia Tegra 3

By on October 20, 2011 at 6:36am in Mobile News


Asus teased a few days ago that it would be launching its follow-up to the reasonably successful (for an Android tablet) Asus Transformer tablet in the coming weeks. Now, during the AsiaD conference in Hong Kong, company Chairman Jonney Shih unveiled the 8.3mm quad-core tablet dubbed Transformer Prime.

At this point we don’t know too much about the Tegra 3 inside the Transformer other than it has four cores (actually five), and that it will offer up to 3x the GPU performance of its Tegra 2 predecessor. Shih, in unveiling the Transformer Prime, claims that it will be the first tablet to market with Nvidia’s new chipset, along with a 10″ screen, SD slot and mini-HDMI port. The other good news is that although it will ship with Honeycomb, the device will get Ice Cream Sandwich soon, likely before the end of the year.

The official unveiling of the Transformer Prime is coming November 9th, but he showed off a working prototype to Walt Mossberg, and it’s definitely a looker. The Tegra 3 chipset should power many new tablets in the new year, with smartphones coming a few months later as they transition to a more mature manufacturing process. In addition to extra speed, Tegra 3 promotes up to 60% power reduction in some areas compared to Tegra 2 performing the same tasks. This is due not only to the more efficient design, but by being developed for mobile right from the start.

Source: Engadget
Via:Phone Arena

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Discussion

18 comments for “Asus debuts Transformer Prime tablet with quad-core Nvidia Tegra 3”

  1. cools, quad cores are finally here…. but this should really be the end of core wars…. after quad core, i feel companies should focus on other aspect of the device (e.g. screen, camera lens, special features)

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    Posted by Al | October 20, 2011, 7:13 am
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    • Agreed the only thing I dislike about this tablet is that they should improve the screen resolution i mean the Nexus Pri- Galaxy Nexus has a screen equal to this and it is way way smaller.

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      Posted by Sean | October 20, 2011, 9:45 am

  2. This is going right on my Christmas list!! I may even wait to do a phone upgrade till next year now. I really like the reduced power consumption that the Tegra 3 chip offers.

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    Posted by Nascar39 | October 20, 2011, 7:17 am
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    • I completely agree, from now it is going to be more software than hardware that gets people’s attention

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      Posted by RIo | October 20, 2011, 8:56 am

  3. While I’m really happy currently with the Transformer, especially for school, I think i’ll be selling it for this one when it comes out. More juice in gaming, less juice in consumption (for email etc.), and 8.3mm thin? Love it.

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    Posted by Guysmiley | October 20, 2011, 8:27 am
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  4. I’m happy to see these are going to be out before the end of the year. The only thing I hope for in the future is that the bezel decreases. I’d love to have a nearly edge-to-edge screen.

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    Posted by Stefan | October 20, 2011, 8:35 am
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  5. what’s the point of having an edge-to-edge screen on a tablet though? you’re gonna end up accidentally touching the screen just by holding it…

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    Posted by alex | October 20, 2011, 9:01 am
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    Posted by TeknoBug | October 20, 2011, 10:05 am
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  7. im as much as a hardware nut as the next guy but..

    no app from the android market will likely benefit much from from the additional processors at this stage in the game

    a few tegra optimized games might
    and emulators for ps2 or dreamcast also would if they existed

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    Posted by ghost | October 20, 2011, 11:04 am
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  8. i just dreamt that i had this :(
    wake up to a sad, brokeass student’s reality

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    Posted by jeremy | October 20, 2011, 11:06 am
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  9. ICS will take advantage of multiple cores. Also, I cant wait for Samsung to release their version of this !

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    Posted by ELNY | October 20, 2011, 11:19 am
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  10. Yeah this thing sounds great but I would wait few months for a healthy competition to kick in and reduce the prices on all the quad core tablets and also wait up till they polish out all the bugs they might have. I dont think

    You can bet Samsung will be ready with their own quad core soon.

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    Posted by HTCmachine | October 20, 2011, 12:42 pm
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    • I dont think I would buy it right away specially cause they will need to update it to ICS. Wait till they do and see what others say if there is bugs or not and then buy. Just my 2cents.

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      Posted by HTCmachine | October 20, 2011, 12:43 pm

  11. Now this is what tablets should start looking like in the near future. Unfortunately I need to use IE or IE tab on Chrome for a work. I’m looking forward to the day where I can completely ditch my laptop and work off a tablet!

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    Posted by Reg | October 20, 2011, 1:10 pm
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  12. I have no plans to get an android tablet but as a transformers fan, do you realize how tempting this just for the #$%$#% name of the tablet!?

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    Posted by astudent | October 20, 2011, 1:41 pm
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  13. I’m waiting for the Transformer Unicron, which is a tablet based off a 65-inch LCD TV.

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    Posted by choy | October 20, 2011, 2:06 pm
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  14. Looks like a happy user there in the photo.

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    Posted by DONTBEMISLEAD | October 20, 2011, 2:52 pm
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  15. Where is the transformer megatron? Lol but really this is awesome news, it helps that the old transformer will be even cheaper to buy

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    Posted by Andy A | October 20, 2011, 3:52 pm
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