Yeah but it's been customized to perform better. Think of it as a 1.1GHz Cortex A8 with SGX540 (drools) now if you think that doesn't matter, compare it to the Snapdragon. It's a completely modified SoC performs below a 1GHz Cortex A8's standard (I think more at 880MHz) and it combines a Adreno 200 GPU (comparable to a SGX530). So the Nexus One and Samsung Galaxy S are on the opposing sides of the Cortex A8 performance, but with Android's java implementation, both chips perform quite close (since HTC's software implementation is better).