Acer showcases their newest Android tablet at CES 2012 - Acer Iconia Tab A700 [CES 2012]

Acer, at CES 2012, brought their first quad-core powered device and showcased it to the public. Called the Acer Iconia Tab A700, it runs on the latest available version of Android, 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, and breathes nVidia's Tegra3 quad-core chipset. The tablet is also featuring Acer's own UI on a 10.1" (1920x1200) display. Acer is planning to launch the tablet come the second quarter of this year.

Qualcomm announces collaboration with Microsoft with Windows 8 - quad-core Snapdragon coming

Qualcomm announced, Wednesday, that they are in and will be collaborating with Microsoft for the next version of Windows. Actually, they are one of those who showcased their own chips in devices displayed at Computex 2011 with Windows 8 running in them. Anyway, Qualcomm said that the first chipset that they will be producing are those Snapdragon MSM8960 which is said to start sampling this month. This will then be followed with, I believe their say with nVidia's Kal-El chipsets, the APQ8064™ quad-core chips. The quad-core chips from Qualcomm is said to start sampling by early 2012, which makes nVidia ahead in the game. Anyway, read Qualcomm's press release after the break.

nVidia intros the world's first quad-core mobile processor - Project Kal-El

You think Qualcomm and Texas Instruments are rocking those new chips they have? Think again, because the world who gave us GPUs have announced Project Kal-El. What is that? Well, its nVidia's codename  first quad-core mobile processors. These chips are expected to be fitted into tablet devices by August of 2011. If the company follows that roadmap then they are set to give us quad-core awesomeness first.

Qualcomm unveils new generation Snapdragon chips - quad-core awesomeness with 2.5GHz clockspeed!

Qualcomm at MWC 2011 have unveiled their new generation Snapdragon chips. You might think that the mobile processor industry, especially with Qualcomm, is getting a little boring, then think again. The new chips from the company will be powering your future devices up to 2.5GHz and that will have four cores in it giving you 150% more overall performance and 65% lesser power consumption (that's a lot!). The new chipset comes in single, dual, and of course quad cores.