Huawei chipsets entering the market. Set to challenge Tegra?

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Just when Ryan thought he'd got a handle on the latest Android devices, how long will it be until this chipset makes it's way onto the TPA board with it's own set of problems?
Based on just the numbers it sounds like the next hardware base for mobile gaming, anyone have any other news or experience with the hardware? I have seen it in a couple devices to be released in late Q1 or early Q2 of 2013.

In a surprise announcement the night before the Mobile World Congress opens here, Huawei Devices showed what it claims were the world's fastest handsets and tablets, using a new quad-core applications processor designed by its chip division. Huawei said its K3V2 chip significantly outperforms the competition, including Nvidia’s quad-core Tegra3.

The 1.2-1.5 GHz K3V2 was a two-year project of Huawei’s HiSilicon division. Officials said the chip delivers 30 to 50 percent more performance than the Tegra3 across a range of benchmarks.

A 64-bit memory bus--twice the width of the Tegra3--is one of the main factors in the performance of the K3V2, said Jerry Su, chief architect of the chip. Built in a TSMC 40 nm low power process, the chip fits in a 12x12mm package. Su said Huawei is willing to sell the chip as a merchant part to other handset makers.

The K3V2 uses four ARM Cortex A9 cores and a 16-core graphics block co-developed with an unnamed U.S. chip designer. The two collaborated on the GPU’s architecture, and the U.S. partner handled its implementation.

The graphics block handles 2-D and 3-D work and helps a handset deliver 35 frames/second video compared to 13 fps for Tegra 3 and 8.4 for a dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon, according to Huawei's tests.

In addition, the chip sports new versions of several existing Huawei hardware accelerators. They include blocks to speed up audio, video, network processing and to handle power management functions.

The design was a big leap for the HiSilicon group whose last chip, released two years ago, sported just one A9 core.
http://www.eetimes.com/electronics-news/4236937/Huawei-claims-quad-core-chip-outguns-Tegra3
 

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Mobile and tablet companies seem to be very greedy. I bught an ipad3 as i wanted to upgrade a ipad 1 then 4 or new new came out...if five isnt funky ill sfick with three aslong as tpa works

Such is the mobile space your shiney new is already ****ed
 

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