It appears that first specs about Nvidia's "Wayne" Tegra chip, the successor of Kal-El (Tegra 3) have been leaked.
Slated for a Q1 2013 release, the processor will arrive with four 28 nm ARM A15 cores and a clock speed of 1.8 GHz on the high-end for 10-inch tablet and notebook devices. A 2 GHz and a 1.2 GHz - 1.8 GHz version will follow in Q3, while there will also be an ARM A9 version with 1.2 to 2.0 GHz that will feature the Icera LTE100 / HSPA42 baseband chip and will be made available for 7-inch devices.
Tegra 4 was originally promised to arrive this year, but has been delayed to 2013. Market rumors suggest that the delay of Wayne could be due to Nvidia's decision to build Kepler GPU technology into these devices. The chip is promised to deliver about 10 times the performance of Tegra 2 on the high-end - and twice the performance of Tegra 3. With at least four different version on tap, Nvidia is aggressively broadening the market reach of Tegra.
Once the Atom chips start coming with phones, they use the same or similar gpu as the iPhone 4s but clocked about twice as high. those 1.6ghz dual core x86 cpus with that gpu should be interesting.
If the claims made by intel about the chip and the few tests Anandtech performed pan out, then yes it should be a decent step forward. The Razr MAXX is a good example of how phones should start being made in regards to battery life. Large battery, slightly thicker than the "oh mai phonez so amazing cuz it's .1 mm thinner!!!11!!!" phones while not be obstructive to the design, feel, and weight.
They have a hard enough time making a CPU that's worth a crap. Frankly, you don't get better at something by dividing your attention. They need to get their current products on par with the competition before they worry about going into new places.
That's cause despite all the talk how various mobile chips/graphics are different, they are really the same, just with a different name.
I know I keep hoping to hear that a Llano based ARM chip is coming. That would be the one to get.
Their Llano based APU's are worth a crap. It's their high end performance CPU's that are failing.
The design goals for a desktop OS are completely different than a phone or tablet OS. I remember when Windows mobile was modeled after the desktop Windows OS (complete with a "Start" menu *shudder*), it was terribly unusable and clunky. Putting a desktop style OS on a phone is a really poor design decision. A full-sized keyboard and mouse is a drastically different user interface than a touch screen.
And now they're trying it the opposite way...