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Date added: 11/07/2011 PCMAG - Asus Transfomer 2 Tablet First to Sport Nvidia's Tegra 3 Chip

Asus took the stage at All Thing D's AsiaD conference Wednesday to offer sneak peaks at its upcoming Eee Pad Transformer 2, the first tablet powered by Nvidia's quad-core Tegra 3 processor, and the company's new Intel-backed Ultrabook, the Zenbook UX31.

 Coming on the heels of Samsung and Google's unveiling of the Galaxy Nexus smartphone and Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich the previous day at the Hong Kong gathering, Asus chairman Jonny Shih was under pressure to impress interviewer Walt Mossberg of All Things D and the AsiaD crowd with some hot new tech.

 It certainly looks like he delivered. Shih pulled the aforementioned goodies from a steel briefcase at his side and even talked up the Padfone, another Asus project that combines a smartphone and a tablet that could be out in the first quarter of 2012.

 With Nvidia's highly anticipated Tegra 3 chip inside, the Transformer 2 looks to be as powerful as it is thin at just 8.3 millimeters. Tegra 3 is a result of Nvidia's Project Kal-El and uses Variable Symmetric Multiprocessing (vSMP) technology, which includes a fifth "companion" CPU core operating at a low frequency that handles less demanding tasks, along with four more identical ARM Cortex A9 CPU cores that have higher clocks and serve as the main quad-core cluster on the chip.

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