Tegra 3 based tablets are fast but pricey. How about one for $200? The Kai platform that Nvidia is working on will use less expensive components but still feature the quad-core Tegra 3 (ARM-based processor).
Here is what Ndidia had to say:
"Our strategy on Android is simply to enable quad-core tablets running Android Ice Cream Sandwich to be developed and brought out to market at the $199 price point, and the way we do that is a platform we've developed called Kai," he's quoted as saying. "So this uses a lot of the secret sauce that's inside Tegra 3 to allow you to develop a tablet at a much lower cost, by using a lot of innovation that we've developed to reduce the power that's used by the display and use lower cost components within the tablet."
I'll bother Nvidia for a sample to review. Will you be in line for one?