One in Three Internet Users to Use Tablet PC by 2014

According to eMarketer, by the end of this year, it is estimated that 33.7 million people in the United States will be using a tablet pc thanks to the main leader of pc tablet, the Apple iPad.

The growth of tablet users in the last year has been up by over 158% since December of last year, the first iPad was released.

By the end of 2014, it is predicted almost 90 million people will be using a tablet pc. They believe that tablets will eventually be a personal necessity like smart phone these days.

Apple is currently keeping the majority share of the tablet market with HP TouchPad and Kindle ebook reader way behind, eMarketer predicts that the iPad will have a 68% market share.

Women, who happens to have less than 50% of the tablet pc are expected to pull even with men. By the end of 2011, youths under the age of 18 will own 13% of the pc tablet. That will increase to 15.9% in 3 years.

NVIDIA Releases Quad-Core Tegra 3 Processor

NVIDIA have introduced it's long-awaited Tegra 3 processor (Formerly Known As Kal-El), which is the first quad-core mobile processor ever released.

Mainly designed for the pc tablet , latest cell phones and smart phones , the Tegra 3 will purportedly best the processing performance of the older Tegra 2 chip by a factor of five (and graphics by a factor of three, thanks to it's 12-core NVIDIA GeForce GPU with stereo 3D support), all while reducing power consumption by 61%.

Although Tegra 3 is a quad-core chip, there is also a fifth "companion core", which is designed to take over for less-intensive computing tasks, such as listening to audio or web browsing. The technology behind the fifth core is NVIDIA’s Variable Symmetric Multiprocessing (vSMP).

With the new Tegra 3, users can expect everything on their mobile devices to perform faster and better, including web browsing experience, gaming, streaming video, video edditing and running apps.