NVIDIA Rebrands The Tegra 3′s Architecture, Wants Everyone To Now Call It A 4-Plus-1 SoCTegra3_Chip-250x179
Nvidia unveiled the Tegra 3 platform last year at Mobile World Congress. Since then the chip has lived its short life mostly misunderstood. You see, it's a quad-core chip with another 500MHz companion core that handles low-power background tasks -- an architecture Nvidia previously called variable symmetric multiprocessing. But that's a mouthful and likely a bit hard to properly market to consumers.
From here on out Nvidia
wants the Tegra 3 to be called a 4-Plus-1 chip, m'kay? Nvidia even went as far as trademarking the new name.
