Tensor has always been a major weakpoint of those phones

Please, the process of my Nintendo 3ds, leaves tensor in the dust

I imagine it was only ever about saving costs, for higher profit margins than anything about efficiency or performance.

It's Google, funneling as much user data is the main priority.

"Wow, this SOC that was never made to compete directly with other flagship-tier SOCs is getting destroyed by flagship-tier SOCs"

Who'd have thought.... Don't get me wrong, I have my own reservations about the Tensor SOC, but anyone who knows anything about google should already know that the Tensor was optimized for machine learning and other shit over raw performance.

Tensor has been "in the dust" since its inception, in terms of performance. However it outclasses every other processor in security and neural processing. And it's perfectly fine performance for the vast majority of people.