While NVIDIA hinted in March that we could see a $199 Tegra 3 based tablet as early as summer, they've fully declared it today as they detailed their new Kai Platform. Hoping to get in on the success that Amazon had with the Kindle Fire companies are looking at bringing a cheaper tablet into the market without sacrificing the power under the hood. With the Kai Platform NVIDIA looks to do just that. As Rob Csongor, VP of Investor Relations put it:
“Our strategy on Android is simply to enable quad-core tablets running Android Ice Cream Sandwich to be developed and brought out to market at the $199 price point, and the way we do that is a platform we’ve developed called Kai. So this uses a lot of the secret sauce that’s inside Tegra 3 to allow you to develop a tablet at a much lower cost, by using a lot of innovation that we’ve developed to reduce the power that’s used by the display and use lower cost components within the tablet.”
As of right now the Kai Platform should be considered a reference design that others can use to build lower cost Android tablets. There aren't specifications on what kind of tablets will arrive using this platform but it does add weight to the rumor of Google and Asus building a $199 Tegra 3 tablet. Considering that Google I/O is just around the corner it shouldn't be too much longer to see if these rumors are true. We'll keep you posted.
source: NVIDIA
via: droiddog
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