There have been a couple of rumors that Nvidia is actually working on a 7-inch tablet or phablet device with stylus support and low price tag that recently showed up in the result page of the GFXBench, but now it appears that Nvidia is quite serious about becoming a manufacturer and seller of tablets as new rumor points out to a high-end tablet with Logan chip that should ship in Q1 2014.

According to Fudzilla.com and their Europe-based sources, the company also plans to launch a high-end tablet under its own brand, the same thing that they did with their Shield hand-held console. The high-end tablet will also get a shiny new Logan SoC, most likely called the Tegra 5. As seen earlier, Logan SoC is based on Cortex-A15 design paired up Kepler-based graphics part and looked quite impressive during a demo at SIGGRAPH 2013.

Unlike Google with most of its products and Nvidia Shield for that matter which was mostly focused at the USA and Canada, Nvidia plans to do a hard push into Europe with these new tablets or phablets. Nvidia's Shield was apparently just a begining and way for Nvidia to get a hang of the retail/e-tail distribution and it appears that next step is quite big.

Unfortunately, Nvidia will be pushing into a quite crowded market with a lot of competition so we are not sure how well will they do or will they suffer the same fate as Microsoft. However, Nvidia Logan SoC is quite an impressive piece of silicon and Nvidia might do much better than it did with Tegra 4.









Source: Fudzilla.com.