All peoples involved in IT and computer technologies in the last decade know very well NVIDIA: this graphic & compute chips design company reached many important target and set new state-of-the-art performance in about any marked where it operated.
Some day ago, NVIDIA uncovered its next-generation SoC project, codenamed Kal-El. This SoC is going to set new performance standard in its area, featuring four ARM Cortex A9 core (each with NEON support, thanks to the integrated MPE) and a renewed, 12 core wide graphic controller. Anandtech did a great job in explaining Kal-El architecture, so I advice anyone interested in SoC performances to read his article here: http://www.anandtech.com/show/4181/nvidias-project-kalel-quadcore-a9s-coming-to-smartphonestablets-this-year
However, NVIDIA did not limit itself to announce its new hardware beast, but showed some benchmark numbers to prove the superior speed of Kal-El. The used benchmark was CoreMark 1.0 (you can read about it here: http://www.coremark.org/home.php), a synthetic ALU and FPU benchmark. Kal-El performs very well here, doubling Tegra2 performance: this is an extremely great accomplishment, as the tested Kal-El silicon was only 12 days old, and this is a testament to NVIDIA's ability to design top-notch chip.