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Nvidia offers glimpse of powerful, next-gen mobile chip

The graphics chipmaker will demonstrate the new design at a visual computing conference this week.

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Nvidia chip based on the Kepler design.
Nvidia chip based on the Kepler design.

Nvidia will introduce its next-gen graphics processors for mobile computing at a visual computing conference this week.

The new graphics chip technology, dubbed Project Logan, is based on the company's Kepler architecture and proposes to bring workstation-class graphics to mobile computing.

"It brings a huge jump in performance [and] offers extraordinary power efficiency," Nvidia said in a statement.

That means about one-third the power consumption of graphics processing units (GPUs) in today's tablets, such as the iPad Retina, while delivering the same performance, Nvidia said.

The technology will be demoed this week at the Siggraph show in Anaheim, California.