Freescale offers take on tablets, 3-D units

Freescale announced a new line of processors for the exploding tablet market during the consumer electronics show in January this year. Director of global marketing, consumer-segment marketing four kind of things that will start appearing in tablets of the future. This line of quad core processors would take care of the increased processing load when they start appearing in 18 months. That would make it by this time next year. The predictions were four fold.

First consumers will start seeing augmented reality applications. For example, in a shopping mall, you would be able to find out who's offering what, what prices and many other details. Even though you are able to look into a few shop-fronts physically, you cannot find this kind of details. These applications will let you look up details from stores that are on a different floor or a different corner of the building! Well, that kind of application would really be useful. If you are able to find if the particular book you are looking for is available or not without going inside and browsing around, that would really be helpful!

Second prediction was about gaming capabilities in tablets.3D and desktop gaming coming on the tablets is a easy prediction to do. It will happen and the Freescale processors are equipped with 4 cores and 3 graphics units to tackle the load.

He predicts the tablets will be used for content creation, going beyond the content consumption at present. That is a usual progression too. People will start creating stuff after a while and if the find the platform has the power to do the job. Part of this prediction is that the tablets will start sporting 2 cameras to make 3D video creation possible.

The way 3D is becoming popular the 3D creation coming on the tablets is not very much of a stretch to believe. All four look likely scenarios. Even if the details do not work out exactly as predicted, that the tablets will need 4 core power is not difficult to see. 2 core tablets are already on the market!

Freescale offers take on tablets, 3-D units