While stressing that 2010 will be the "year of the tablet" at its Consumer Electronics Show 2010 press conference, Nvidia progressed to unveil its very latest Tegra 2 platform, which is running on a range of its tablets.

According to the company, it wanted these tablets to possess the performance of a personal computer, but with the energy efficiency of a mobile phone, and this is where the next-generation of Nvidia's Tegra platform comes in. It is equipped with a dual-core Cortex A9 processor, which is one of its 8 independent processors, which are also inclusive of a Geforce GPU.

As per Nvidia's claims, the Tegra 2 will be able to deliver 10 times the performance of a smartphone, while operating at a mere 500 milliwatts. Battery life, therefore, will be much better than machines running on Qualcomm's Snapdragon or Intel's Atom chips.

"If you want to buy a system that has days of battery life, has a great Web experience, but the Microsoft Office enterprise apps aren't necessary, then you buy this. I believe these devices will be significantly less expensive to build than a netbook. Our partners have talked about these devices retailing between $200-300, and that could get subsidized down to zero", said Mike Rayfield, Nvidia's General Manager for Mobile Products.