Seeing that they cannot compete with the iPad tablet in the segment of 9-10 inch screens, Android tablet manufacturers direct their attention to a market where Apple is not currently present, that of tablets with a 7 inch screen. Amazon Kindle Fire proved that a lot of money can be made there, and now Android tablet manufacturers are trying to quickly release powerful tablets on the market, but with small screens. Google will soon launch such a product that will have a quad-core processor, a 7-inch screen and will cost only $199, so it will probably be worth buying.
Our strategy on Android is simply to enable quad-core tablets running Android Ice Cream Sandwich to be developed and brought out to market at the $199 price point, and the way we do that is a platform we've developed called Kai. So this uses a lot of the secret sauce that's inside Tegra 3 to allow you to develop a tablet at a much lower cost, by using a lot of innovation that we've developed to reduce the power that's used by the display and use lower cost components within the tablet.
In order to help the developers to be more competitive on this market, those from Nvidia they developed Kai, an Android tablet with a 7-inch screen and a quad-core processor based on the Nvidia Tegra 3 platform. How much will this product cost? Only $199 say those from Nvidia, but it does not want to be just a product, but a standard. Those from Nvidia imagine that this Kai tablet will become a model for manufacturers who will build similar ones and sell them at the same price.
I think that the launch of such products at such low prices is extremely beneficial for consumers, but the main problem lies in the experience they will have.
