Mobile Devices with Multi-Core Processors by 2013
In 2013, most mobile devices will feature multi-core processors, claims a study.
From a hardware standpoint, where will mobile devices be three years from now? According to market research firm In-Stat, 2013 will be the year a vast majority of MIDs, netbooks, smartphones, and other mobile devices will feature processors with more than two cores. In-Stat predicts that the entire multi-core invasion will begin next year, in 2010, with smartphones and netbooks initially joining the multi-core collective.
However, in 2011, MIDs and UMPCs will receive the multi-core treatment, followed by CE devices somewhere between 2012 and 2013. In-Stat said that by 2013, almost 88-percent of the processors sold into the mobile market segment will be multi-core processors. The company also said that the ARM architecture will see a higher growth rate over the more common x86 architecture.
"Integration of graphics/multimedia acceleration is a key trend as well," said Jim McGregor, In-Stat analyst. "While multi-core dominates in the high performance mobile computing segments, integration of graphics/multimedia acceleration favors the smartphone, MID/UMPC and mobile entertainment device segment."
Entitled Mobile Processor Review, In-Stat's research is available for all to download and enjoy for a whopping $3,495 USD. While the collected data may be informative, we can't help but think that kind of money could be better used on a smoking hot gaming PC with a 3D HD display. Still, it's cool so see a glimpse into the future.
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Make batteries that last 5 times longer and you can do whatever you want to my smartphone. Battery 1st, CPU power later imo.... unless they are sooo efficient they don't use moar power.
Hmmm...
doesnt the zune use that multicore nvidia processor?
I like the prediction of multiple cores. We can only hope they double battery life before they actually make it to market.
doesnt the zune use that multicore nvidia processor?
It uses the tegra but that's like calling any graphics card multi-core.
The thing is, will programmers use the extra Cores? If the availability of multithreaded apps in x86-64 CPUs then I'm assuming we won't get many multithreaded apps for ARM.....
The thing is, will programmers use the extra Cores? If the availability of multithreaded apps in x86-64 CPUs then I'm assuming we won't get many multithreaded apps for ARM.....
Well, I imagine it is more for multi-tasking than multi-threading. Cell-phone apps don't require more than a single core, but for playing music, surfing and texting it could be beneficial.
Not really surprised by this...
If MS is continuing to push heavier OSes, then yes.
If we're allowed to have a DX10, SSD trim compatible Win98 40bit version, then perhaps a single core will do just fine!
i wish it was earlier...
I noticed Warcraft 3 (that 7 year old stragety game) had about 120 threads. Crysis Warhead had 20 some threads...
Ummm, what the hell?
I'll all for multi threading. Would be awesome however if we found a way to efficiently split a single thread into dozens (or hundreds).
To double the frequency, you'll take 4x or more the power. To double the cores, you could use less than 2x the power and still gain the same performance benefit (in a proper enviroment), just at the cost of more silicon (meaning more expensive, but better battery).
They're coming out with a 1GHz phone... why is it my 333MHz PSPgo only gets 3 hours of gameplay on a battery?
Well, I imagine it is more for multi-tasking than multi-threading. Cell-phone apps don't require more than a single core, but for playing music, surfing and texting it could be beneficial.
Definitely agree, just like the desktop market, except for a very few resource intensive apps, the biggest advantage to multicoredness is multitasking. Furthermore, with smartphones becoming more and more subject to worms and other forms of malware, multicore processors (again like desktop counterparts) are going to help usher in either third party security suites, or integrated security processes, either of which will require resources to run.
They're coming out with a 1GHz phone... why is it my 333MHz PSPgo only gets 3 hours of gameplay on a battery?
The 1ghz phone is already out- it's the droid running the snapdragon processor. The SE xperia X10 is also running is, as are few other phones coming out in 2010
doesnt the zune use that multicore nvidia processor?
yep, 8 cores of crysis PWNAGE!!!