NVIDIA has formally unveiled its Tegra 3 quad-core processor. The company claims that with the launch of the chip, it has ìushered in the era of quad-core mobile computingî with the availability of the new chip. NVIDIA says that the new ARM Cortex A9-based system-on-a-chip (SOC) offers up to 3 times the graphics performance of its Tegra 2 dual-core predecessor, and uses up to 61 percent less power.