11/03/2011 07:23:00 PM
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Expected to arrive in a little less than a week from now, Asus Transformer Prime tablet powered by Nvidia's Kal-El chip has just starred in a series of photos taken by the FCC which reveal the internals of the device.
The Transformer Prime, model number TF201, visited the FCC in late October and won the commission's approval for WiFi and Bluetooth functionality, according to Wireless Goodness, but no mention of 3G was in sight.
The filling also came complete with a series of pictured depicting the insides of the tablet and the Nvidia Kal-El system-on-a-chip (SoC) device used by Asus for the tablet.
We covered Nvidia's Kal-El in detail in a previous article, so we are not going to get into too many details right now, but we'll remind you that the chip packs four Cortex A9 cores based on an ARM architecture paired together with a fifth low-power companion core.
Nvidia chose this arrangement in order to increase the power efficiency of its design, as the companion core handles many of the tasks the device runs when in idle mode.
In addition to the Kal-El SoC, the FCC filling also reveals some NAND memory built by Hynix and Elpida SDRAM, while the Prime's wireless capabilities seem to be powered by an Azurewave chip.
The GPS chipset seems to be provided by Broadcom, and we also get to see in the pictures the device's camera, its mini-HDMI port as well as the massive battery that should be able to deliver an impressive 14.5 hours of battery life.
The initial version of the Transformer Prime will run the Android Honeycomb OS, but an Ice Cream Sandwich update is expected to hit the Prime in December of this year.
Asus is expected to release both a Silver and a Gold edition of its tablet on November 9.
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