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NVIDIA's Tegra 3 Outruns Apple's A5 In First Benchmarks
MojoKid writes "NVIDIA's new Tegra 3 SoC (System on a Chip) has recently been released for performance reviews in the Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime Android tablet. Tegra 3 is comprised of a quad-core primary CPU complex with a 5th companion core for lower-end processing requirements and power management. The chip can scale up to 1.4GHz on a single core and 1.3GHz on up to four of its cores, while the companion core operates at 500MHz. It makes for a fairly impressive new tablet platform and offers performance that bests Apple's A5 dual-core processor in more than a few tests. The Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime with optional keyboard dock and NVIDIA's Tegra 3 is set to be available in volume sometime around December 19th."
I'd mod you down to oblivion if I had any mod points.
The fact that there's competition between vendors is a good thing for the consumers and it's one of the reasons why Apple's being outsold by such a heavy margin. Different manufacturers have different strategies and it means that if I don't want to buy an HTC handset I can buy a Samsung or LG handset without having to move to a different platform.
As for profit, that's one dimension, but personally, I like to know that if my preferred vendor goes tits up or decides to change the product in a way that I don't like that I can move to a different vendor without having to give up all my apps. You still can't do that with Apple and probably never will.
At the end of the day though, you're just a run of the mill Apple fanbois, don't expect any of that to sink in.