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I was at this yesterday: https://ktn.innovateuk.org/web/scala...es%2F-%2Fblogs
Marco Cornero from ST Ericsson questioned the usefulness of quad-core (or at least why we haven't gone quad core just yet).
I think you'll find quad-core won't give you much benefit in the majority of use cases; there might be some showcase software, but parallelising web browsing is really bloody hard.
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Good point, NVIDIA's competitors will certainly try to downplay the significance of quad-core, but NVIDIA is saying you'll get 5x the performance of Tegra 2 at a lower power draw. I guess we'll find out the truth by the end of the year.Originally Posted by Steve
Did ST Ericsson say anything about Nova?
I was given the impression by more than one company yesterday that the decision not to release quad core yet wasn't really an engineering one. I mean, you can just slap a pair of dual-core die into a package if you really want.
What's interesting though is the observation Marco made that we haven't 'transitioned' to dual-core, but rather straight switched... all flagship smartphones are now dual core.
I think it'll be a different story with quad core, unless consumers/marketeers create confused demands.
I don't remember anything about Nova, let me check. edit: No, not that I can see.
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I would have thought the point in creating a quad core tablet is that you are pushing the actual physical capabilities of the device closer to that of what we have become accustomed too with PCs, basically closing the gap between x86 based systems and ARM based systems. Already we have seen mobile gaming take a massive jump in the space of just a few short years, now there are peripherals and add ons for tablets that give them the capabilities to be controlled like normal laptops, location recording devices etc etc. Tablets in conjunction with a NAS can be comfortably used as a HTPC to drive your television and surround system... the list goes on and on really. These are no longer just devices to browse the web with, they have a lot more to offer and i think with windows [edit - full blown version of course] soon to appear with an arm offering, the other companies may have to rethink their stance on the market.
It does seem very much like anyone trying to downplay the significance of more powerful mobile chipsets is very much just trying to cover their own backs but only time will tell.
Last edited by Biscuit; 07-09-2011 at 12:49 PM.
agreed biscuit, quadcore wont really help in regards to pure web browsing but for gaming (i.e keeping up with the ds and psp, even getting closer to normal consoles!) then its useful, wasnt there a demo nvidia showed awhile back with a game with dynamic lighting etc and even load on all cores it allowed for so much more.
I think Nvidia will dominate soon (more than currently, its doing solid considering its in tablets alot of phones like my optimus 2x and atrix and soon the sgs2 or what ever they renamed it to). Nvidia have gone for a more gpu heavy SoC (obvious for nvidia...) but thats what makes it, hardware acceleration on the browser helps loads same with video more so than just adding more cpu processing power so i think Qualcomm will be meeting its match soon which is shown by the dualcore in the sensation etc, all of them are good but tegra 2 beats them a fair margin.
+1 on that. A quad core phone is probably just silly - techno willy waving - and apart from that "LG Optimus 4X" sounds like a beer! However quad-core for a tablet (or a phone that converts to a tablet - see Atrix and Padphone - which is why I said "probably") makes a good deal of sense, especially if - as ScottB said - they manage to keep the battery penalty for going quad core down as low as possible.
I did a couple of rough comparisons of a couple of games on a single-core phone v's a Tegra2 tablet and, as expected, the games were smoother on the bigger device. I'm guessing that a quad-core tablet would also be easily capable of doing more physics-intensive games.
What about graphics tools - granted they probably need a shedload of memory too - but surely a quad-core version would be able to make use of more computationally-intensive transformations? Or how about something like speech dictation or a mobile version of Kinect?
Interesting times ahead...
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I play BSGO, which is pushed through the browser by Unity. From what I understand their product allows portability between platforms including PC, Android, iOS, etc so a more powerful quad core would certainly come in handy at allowing games companies to port games from one platform more easily.
This fits with Nvidia's gaming slant and could see PC like performance on mobile platforms.
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