One word: OVERKILL lol. I don't understand why they didn't just drop the Cortex A7 to a dual core, if the Cortex A7 is meant to be a low power part, why does it need to be quad core? I understand the A15 being quad core but not the low power one... Also, Tegra 4 does have one advantage up its sleeves that no one else has, it's that "One Shot HDR". No one else seems to have it yet... deltatux

The fifth Tegra core is an A15, so we'll see just yet.

One word: OVERKILL lol. I don't understand why they didn't just drop the Cortex A7 to a dual core, if the Cortex A7 is meant to be a low power part, why does it need to be quad core? I understand the A15 being quad core but not the low power one... Also, Tegra 4 does have one advantage up its sleeves that no one else has, it's that "One Shot HDR". No one else seems to have it yet... deltatux

Yeah, I thought exactly the same - 5th low-power core makes sense in phones, as well as Intel's HT. But packing 8 cores in a phone? When even 4 cores in desktops are rarely utilized properly? Regarding 1-shot HDR, it's a known technique which involves multiple exposures on 1 click - it can be achieved with several subsequent exposures or just reading the data and extending exposure time (the latter is troublesome but gives lower movement-related errors). Unless NV patented it, it's not that difficult to achieve. I believe SGS4 will have such feature, perhaps not exactly as in NV implementation, but it should be present.

I can't imagine having a cell phone with an 8 core processor. A Tablet however would benefit from more horsepower. It's all about the OS not the processor. Look at the upcomming BB10 phones the dev devices are dual core and snappy as hell. Even Apple realizes this as they are currently building IOS7 from the ground up possibly as a Microkernel OS. IOS and android and Windows 8 are horrible for mobile devices from an efficiency perspective.

Its the next step in developing mobile PC so yeah where these devices will take over desktops. Seriously I rather see tech development on batteries for these portable devices.

Probably won't be too long before someone makes an ARM F@H client and builds a Galaxy folding farm.