While we’re all waiting to play with tablets running on Nvidia’s smokey quad-core wonder, Wireless Goodness got its mitts on photos of the chip in the flesh.
It looks pretty much like any other chip, sure—but pause for a minute and consider just how much is lying underneath there: four graphics-socking cores, plus a slower, secret core for menial tasks. You’ll never see it, sealed up inside your next tablet (maybe), but don’t take for granted much we can put on silicon these days. [Wireless Goodness via Engadget]













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I don’t think I’ll ever lose that sense of wonder at the electronic marvels that make all the pretty pictures appear on screens. I can still remember being blown away by my ZX81 as a kid. I just hope that current and future generations manage to keep that sense of wonder as its so easy to take all this computing magic for granted.