Gizmodo, via Carrypad, via SlashGear, is reporting that the new Tegra 2, as found in the Android-powered Toshiba AC100 netbook, has totally obliterated all of its fellow Android competitors in recent speed tests.
This dual-core Arm based chip is apparently a much better and faster chip than Apple's own Arm-based chip, the A4 as found in the iPad and iPhone. For starters, the A4 is only a single core chip. Apple, along with Acorn Computing, created Arm based chips in the first place and its A4 chip really out shined its competition when it debuted, but the question now is when, not if, Apple will come out with its next or updated Arm-based chip, and one that could, more than likely, be either a dual or even quad core version?
That, of course, is something that many, myself included, have no way of knowing for sure, but it's is a hell-of-a-safe bet that the highly secretive power house from Cupertino is working on such chips as we speak, but when?
Well, this is just a personal guess, but I think that we can expect to see such chips either in the first or second quarter of next year. Not only that, but let me go out on a limb and say that I believe that Apple's recent purchase of two based semi chip companies are about to really pay off big time for the company, resulting in chips that will deliver significantly faster speed, flexibility and far better performance than either the Tegra 2 or any other chip for that matter.
Of course, in conclusion, the competition is going to exactly stop and stand still when that happens, but neither will Apple and I personally expect to see Apple come out with an A5 chip and other subsequent chips that will give its competitors a real run for their money and give them a very hard time trying to keep up with, you just wait and see!.
And that's my 2 cents 4 this Monday, August 30, 2010
Chart via: Gizmodo
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