Tegra 2

No chances are being taken with the 2015 Audi A3. While the outgoing model never quite achieved the same cachet in the US as it did in Europe in five-door hatchback form, the new car targets the US from the outset with an A3 Sedan leading the charge. Starting just under $29,900 but promising Teutonic refinement - and a typically lengthy options list, including what may be the best infotainment system we’ve used so far - the A3 aims to follow in the footsteps of its well-received bigger siblings, not to mention return fire against other recent entrants in the premium C-segment niche. Read on for our first drive report.

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A leaked slide purportedly detailing NVIDIA's next-gen "Wayne" Tegra chipset has emerged, tipping a significant increase in graphics cores as well as a boost in mobile security provisions. The slide, shared on Chinese forum Chiphell, suggests the quadcore chipset will use NVIDIA's 4-PLUS-1 architecture as on the Tegra 3, paired with 72 GPU cores and support for 2560 x 1600 displays.

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This week the folks at Fuhu have released information about their next proposed hit for the kids market in tablets - a Tegra 2 dual-core processor-toting children's tablet made to replace the original. This machine has a 5-inch display, bumpers around all the sides and some connection squares on the back (see why in our full review of the Fuhu nabi 2 to see what they're all about). This machine takes out the greater specifications of the nabi 2 (including a Tegra 3) to drive down costs - and drive them they have!

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As NVIDIA hits their first full year of their gaming portal TegraZone, they've blown out with a party which included a "Player's Choice Awards" (which we also participated in) selecting the greatest games available on the market today. Today the results are in, and the games you have chosen were made plain: it's Shadowgun THD and Grand Theft Auto III for the win!

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It's time to keep on rolling out on the NVIDIA train as the one year anniversary of the gaming hub known as TegraZone continues! This week it's time to celebrate with no less than a whole new Sonic the Hedgehog game and an Anniversary Game Pack for you and yours as well! As NVIDIA celebrates the first full year of providing awesome Tegra-tuned games to the public, so too should you join us for a game of Sonic 4: Episode II and a few bonuses along the way as well - TF300 tablet with the Tegra 3 inside, here we come!

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Over the next three weeks we're working with NVIDIA and ASUS to celebrate the first full year of the NVIDIA TegraZone with no less than three game packs that you can grab for yourself! Inside each of these game packs you'll find an ASUS Transformer Pad TF300, a TF300 keyboard dock, a Logitech game controller, and a Jawbone Jambox Speaker - all of this bringing you a setup that offers up "console quality gaming" on the go! Starting today and running through the 31st of May, you've got one chance to win each week for a total of three game packs right here on SlashGear - Transformer TF300 tablets galore!

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This week you can grab a brand new edition of the utterly epic role-playing game for the mobile platform: SoulCraft for Android, exclusively on NVIDIA Tegra-toting devices in its HD form. This game is coming out in two editions, one as high-class as it gets for devices working with NVIDIA's quad-core processor Tegra 3, the other a more standard edition made for all Android devices. This game is the new Diablo alternative for those waiting for the epic third installment of that beast on the desktop - it's a must see!

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It's a world turned upside down here at the tail end of the week for NVIDIA as we get word that word is spreading of Tegra-based notebooks and Kepler-based Superphones in the not-too-distant future. These tips come from two separate notes, one from NVIDIA's CEO Jen-Hsun Huang speaking on Kepler's successful launch, the other from NVIDIA's mobile chief Rene Haas on Tegra's ongoing quest for supremacy. What you'll find is that quotes from the both of them have aspirations beyond what they've already done to conquer the computing and mobile worlds.

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The showdown continues: the 2012 Retina Display-bearing iPad faces off against the ASUS Transformer Prime, this time bringing the two gaming-ready giants to the court for their next all-out hardware brawl. What we're doing here is showing how these two prime examples of nicest and newest tablet hardware on the market for each of these two beasts' operating systems, with the iPad running iOS and the Transformer running Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich - these tied directly to the power of the units' processors: the A5X from Apple and NVIDIA's Tegra 3 quad-core processor with 4-PLUS-1 technology. Who will be the victor in the gaming space? You'll find that there's no one simple answer to that question rather quickly.

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HTC is pushing overall user experience with its MWC 2012 smartphone range, but it's hard not to talk about the HTC One X without spec hyperbole slipping in. The flagship of the new One Series, it's a 4.7-inch 720p HD "All-In Device" HTC insists, and - with a few blips - it's hard not to agree. After a long history of Qualcomm-powered devices, the One X brings NVIDIA's quadcore Tegra 3 into the HTC range. Read on for our hands-on first impressions.

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This week the folks at LG have revealed and we've gotten our hands on the next generation of LG Optimus device, the LG Optimus 4X. This smartphone takes the first-in-class Optimus 2X dual-core processor and amps it up with the NVIDIA Tegra 3 quad-core SoC with 4-PLUS-1 technology. This device is the first to the European market with a true IPS HD display, has a lovely 4.7-inch display, and runs with Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich right out of the box.

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The folks at NVIDIA are coming in hot with not only information about the soon to be released quad-core smartphones on the block, the first on earth of course, but with LTE and their own Icera modems as well! Mobile World Congress 2012 is right around the corner, and NVIDIA is showing off how fabulous their showing is going to be at the world's largest mobile-based convention of the year - right here with Icera! In their latest update, they've detailed not only Voice over LTE with Icera, but LTE gaming as well.

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