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Acer and Lenovo will release quad-core Tegra 3 tablets early next year

Rumors have surfaced that Acer and Lenovo are lining up Android 4.0(Ice Cream Sandwich) tablets with NVIDIA's quad-core Tegra 3 GPU for launch in the first quarter of 2012. The companies haven’t specified what models they’re going to launch, while the devices are designed to compete with Asus's forth coming Eee Pad Transformer Prime, a hybrid tablet that also packs a Tegra 3 processor. Digitimes suggested that Acer’s Iconia Tabs, the upcoming Lenovo tablet, and a future Samsung Galaxy Tab would all be unveiled at CES or Mobile World Congress next year.

Tablet and Smartphone zealots have been salivating over the quad-core ARM Cortex A9 Tegra 3 for some time, and the processor is at the tipping point for appearance in real, purchasable devices. The Transformer Prime's Tegra 3 is clocked at 1.3GHz, though it is shipping as Android 4-capable, there's a window for Acer or Lenovo to slip in as the first tablet to market with that OS.

The new quad-core tablets should be much more powerful than their dual-core predecessors, while the latest generation may not much better against Apple’s upcoming iPad 3, sources say, as they potentially wouldn’t be “fundamentally different than their predecessors and would be trading mostly on their speed”. The sources also speculate that “since non-Apple players’ machines have no advantage to compete against Amazon or Apple’s tablet PC devices, non-Apple players will together account for only 10-15% of the total tablet PC market.” That is to say, the iPad is indeed still king.

It is reported that you'll be able to snag a nifty Acer and Lenovo’s Tablet with a quad-core GPU for between $459 and $599 in 2012. Since neither Acer nor Lenovo have a direct advantage over Apple or Amazon's tablet devices, the mathematical formulas prove that owning a reasonably priced tablet with a quad-core GPU does make you the coolest kid on the block. This would put them essentially in direct competition with the iPad.

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