While lots of companies are talking about launching superchips at Mobile World Congress 2011, Nvidia has taken claim of the first place prize. The company gave the first sneak peek of its Mobile Super Chip project called “Project Kal-El”, which according to it is the first four-processor chip for mobile devices coming to market. Interestingly, Nvidia is one of the recent entrants in this market, and is making waves all around. It’s already seen some action with its dual-processor Tegra 2; the new version was demonstrated at the same event on a tablet PC running Google’s Android operating system.

“Project Kal-El came into the building, shepherded by a team of engineers from around the world, who had been working around the clock for months,” wrote Mike Rayfield, general manager of Nvidia’s mobile business, in a blog post.

Again we’ll stress on the on blossoming interest Nvidia in the chip market, as it has its sights set on established players on the field. Its rivals had MWC announcements of their own, including Qualcomm’s plans for the Quadcore mobile processor chip, but not until early 2012.  After getting smacked around a bit by Nvidia, Qualcomm is determined to snatch back its top spot, having spiced things up with Snapdragon using the new tool “Krait”, which offers speed up to 2.5GHz per core and 150 percent higher overall performance. The chipset will be available in single-, dual- and quad-core versions, and include a new Adreno GPU series with up to four 3D cores and integrated multi-mode LTE modem.

It seems that everyone is battling towards a top position.  Intel showed a vital part of its potential mobile chip at MWC 2011 as well.  This is the first wireless radio core, which is a part of an system-on-chip. It is still unnamed and will be produced using the same process that is uses for its Sandy Bridge processors.