NVIDIA is working on the successor to its impressive gaming tablet

I was actually quite surprised when it turned out that NVIDIA’s Shield tablet was actually a solid piece of hardware rather than a another gimmicky gaming device. A new report claims that the company is currently working on the successor to this device which will supposedly be powered by the company’s own Tegra X1 chipset.

According to a new report, NVIDIA is hard at work on the successor of the Shield Android tablet. The sequel of the 8” gaming slate is rumored to launch in mid-March or earlier. Unsurprisingly, the biggest highlight in the upcoming tablet will be its NVIDIA Tegra X1 chipset with Maxwell GPU. Announced during CES in January, the X1 is the first mobile processor in the world capable of 1 teraflop floating point performance. Chipset aside, there is no other information available on the yet to be revealed slate. However, the 8” screen size of the current generation is likely to remain unchanged, as will the optional LTE connectivity.