Among the Nexus line of gadgets that Google unveiled last year, it is the Nexus 10, made by Samsung, that gets the least attention. The tech giant aims to change that by boosting the large tablet's specs for its second coming later this year, a new report said.

Bright Side of News, a tech blog site mostly reporting on semi-conductor developments, recently reported that replacement for the Nexus 10 is likely in the works, this time improving on the perceived inadequacies of the first serving.

To begin with, Samsung did great in delivering the first Nexus 10, which was ported with the Exynos 5 chip that were muscling its way through the dual-core Cortex-A15 plus a more than decent GPU performance via the Mali T604.

And with the native Android pulling all the strings for the slate's overall functions, visible on the impressive 2560 x 1600 screen resolution, Google executives would have been satisfied, right?

Not exactly, according to Bright Side of News, adding that Google intends to correct the 'underpowered' sentiments by giving the next Nexus 10 a major overhaul, at least what's inside of its 10-inch plus chassis.

Accordingly, the second iteration will have a quad-core processing capability with its display chip to be governed by an 8-core T628 GPU. Easily, these mini machine boosters would result to "4 million pixel, 300ppi resolution ... and would suffice to choke even the best mobile can offer," the same report said.

What Google would achieve is a tablet with processing power that is closely akin with that of new generation desktop computers, Bright Side of News said. Clear advantage of the Nexus 10 though is portability and affordability as Google seems resolve to stick with the gadget's sticker price when it debuted last year, the report added.

Obviously, to make the Nexus 10 attractive once Google Play store starts selling it, some compromise must come into play. This is best represented by the tablet's casing, which experts said generally left much to be desired over its competitors.

At least, Nexus 10 will still come with a generous 2GB of RAM, which promises speedy performance for would-be buyers. Google is also expected to offer its signature full-sized tablet in 16GB and 32GB storage configurations.

The slate is likely to commence shipment by the start of school season this year. Droid-Life is assuming that Google would preview the new gadget on its Google I/O conference this May prior to its actual availability some months later.