Rumor has it that NVidia is getting ready to cover lost ground with its Tegra 4 SoC, which it might unveil at the CES 2013 in January. NVidia’s Tegra 2 and Tegra 3 were the first dual-core and quad-core SoCs respectively for mobile devices. The Tegra 2 was used in  the original Motorola Xoom and the Sony Tablet S in 2010. And the quad-core Tegra 3 which includes a fifth companion core was/is seen in the Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime, HTC One X+, the Google Nexus 7, Asus Transformer Pad Infinity, and many other current high-end devices.

The advent of new quad-core as well as more powerful dual-core SoCs like the Snapdragon S4 Pro from Qualcomm and Samsung’s Exynos 5 series chips, NVidia’s Tegra 3 was beginning to look a little bit dated. If rumors are to be believed, the Tegra 4 would offer double the power of the current Tegra 3, and ten times that of the older Tegra 2. Plus not only the processor speed would get cranked up, but also the graphics processing capabilities – high-res mobile version of Crysis anyone? The Tegra 4 SoC is codenamed Wayne, after Batman’s alter ego Bruce Wayne. You can find more technical details on the NVidia Tegra 4 SoC in this article that we had published a few days ago.

Last but not the least, the Tegra 4 SoC will also be compatible with 4G LTE networks. Which means that users in 4G LTE evolved markets like the U.S. will not have to wait for versions with altered hardware on the next crop of devices which will pack this beast.