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A slideshow screenshot featuring snippets of a new Tegra 2 processor from Nvidia was leaked this weekend. The company is allegedly set to unveil its Tegra 2 3D processor at this year's Mobile World Congress in mid-February.
Two editions of the processor are in the works: An AP25 version for mobile phones and a T25 for tablets. Both will ratchet up Tegra 2's dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 processor to 1.2 GHz instead of the common one GHz for Tegra 250-series CPUs. According to the leaked slides, Nvidia expects that its processor will be able to hit 5,520 MIPS—million instructions per second, that is. That's all of 520 MIPS more than the one-gigahertz Tegra 2 chip.
There's no indication as to which upcoming devices will benefit from the Tegra 2 3D, merely a note that the chips will be arriving in spring of 2011. Some have nevertheless suggested that LG's G-Slate could be one of the first products to use a Tegra 2 3D chip. That is, if the tablet is indeed going for three-dimensional support as images of the device's rear have suggested (its alleged two-camera setup could be used to record stereoscopic images and video).
As well, a spokesman for LG France indicated earlier that the G-Slate was expected to have a glasses-free, three-dimensional display. Given that the G-Slate is expected to premiere right around the same time as demos (if not the outright launch) of Tegra 2 3D—and that the G-Slate has been widely expected to use a Tegra 2 chip up until this point—it stands to reason that the tablet could indeed be the first out the gate with Nvidia's new chip.
Of course, that's not the only news that could be arriving at this year's Mobile World Congress. Mashable's Charlie White is predicting that Tegra 3 itself is going to get the big debut. He basis this guesstimate on a quote from Nvidia's general manager of Tegra, Mike Rayfield, in an interview with Hexus:
"I'm going to come pretty close to my cadence of a launch every year," Rayfield said. "It will be in production around the same time as my competitors' first dual-cores will."
Since Tegra 2 debuted just around this same time frame at last year's Consumer Electronics Show, reports are anticipating a similar debut for Tegra 3 in February.