Leaked slide reveals NVIDIA Tegra 2 3D mobile chip coming in Spring, 2011

A leaked slide from NVIDIA's Mobile World Congress presentation shows that techies shouldn't get too comfortable with NVIDIA's Tegra 2 chipset, which it's been heavily promoting and which will appear in many upcoming handsets and tablets. That's nice enough, but hold onto your hat: NVIDIA will be shipping a Tegra 2 3D processor this year.

Indeed, the word 3D is the "in thing" now, and NVIDIA isn't blind to that. The new Tegra 2 3D will be based on a Dual Core Cortex A9 clocked at up to 1.2 GHz, providing performance rated at 5520 MIPS. The slide says Q1 production, with a Spring introduction.

Tech Eye believes that the 3D technology used in handsets will differ from Nintendo's 3DS:

It can be reasoned coming mobile handsets will offer a Master Image TN-LCD display using cell parallax, a technology using the individuals cells to create a 3D effect instead of a parallax barrier, as Nintendo will be using in its 3DS console.

Master Image explained that shutter glasses enable 3D in theaters to work by shutting out peripheral vision. Because of the way that users look at handsets and tablets, they effectively shut own their own peripheral vision themselves, Master Image said, by moving the devices around inside the viewing cone.

This is just one leaked slide from NVIDIA's presentation, so it will be interesting to see what else NVIDIA has to show off at Mobile World Congress.