• Quad Core Phones in 2013
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[QUOTE]ARM has been muttering about their [URL="http://www.slashgear.com/search/arm+eagle"]upcoming Eagle processor[/URL] for some time, and now the chip has made its official debut. Confirmed as the [URL="http://www.arm.com/products/processors/cortex-a/cortex-a15.php"]ARM Cortex A15[/URL], it’s a quad-core [URL="http://www.slashgear.com/arm-cortex-a15-eagle-detailed-2-5ghz-quadcore-chip-09101417/#"]processor[/URL] running at up to 2.5GHz and offers, ARM reckon, five times the performance of current generation smartphone chipsets. [IMG]http://cdn.slashgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/arm_cortex_a15_eagle_1-540x201.jpg[/IMG] However it’s also fully compatible with previous ARM Cortex A-series applications, smoothing out upgrade potential for existing hardware and software developers. That’ll include Android, Adobe Flash Player, Java Platform Standard Edition (Java SE), JavaFX, Linux, Windows Embedded Compact 7, Symbian and Ubuntu. ARM are targeting not only mobile computers and smartphones but low-power servers and high-end digital home entertainment systems with the Cortex A15, with smartphones using 1-1.5GHz versions of Eagle while home servers might get the 1.5-2.5GHz chips. That’s more a limitation of [URL="http://www.slashgear.com/arm-cortex-a15-eagle-detailed-2-5ghz-quadcore-chip-09101417/#"]power consumption[/URL] than anything else. The first ARM Cortex A15 chips are expected in 2013 [URL="http://www.slashgear.com/ti-grab-pole-position-in-arm-eagle-next-gen-cores-0997012/"]from TI[/URL] and others. [/QUOTE][URL]http://www.slashgear.com/arm-cortex-a15-eagle-detailed-2-5ghz-quadcore-chip-09101417/[/URL]
I hope it doesn't kill the battery more than it has (for my HTC Hero)
NEW NlNTENDO NDS 6 CORE PROCESSER, NOW WITH SUPER MARIO SUNSHINE. [editline]10:44PM[/editline] It could happen because of this. Ah never mind.
Is this really necessary?
[QUOTE=B1N4RY!;24796911]Is this really necessary?[/QUOTE] It soon will be i reckon.
I saw the title as "Quad Core Phenoms in 2013"
[QUOTE=B1N4RY!;24796911]Is this really necessary?[/QUOTE] is having an i7 980x clocked at 4.2GHz necessary? no, but people do it anyways.
So we're skipping dual cores? Awesome! I could really make use of this.
Dual cores is due this year. So, we're not skipping dual cores. Plus, it's in 2013, and that's three years ahead.
[QUOTE=Armotekma;24797292]is having an i7 980x clocked at 4.2GHz necessary? no, but people do it anyways.[/QUOTE] For people like me who encode Blu-ray movies to H.264 (.m2ts container) @ 1920x1080, yes. For the average home user, no.
[QUOTE=xboomguy;24797400]Dual cores is due [U]this year[/U]. So, we're not skipping dual cores. Plus, it's in 2013, and that's three years ahead.[/QUOTE] They got 3½ months to make a dual core phone :colbert:
[QUOTE=Armotekma;24797292]is having an i7 980x clocked at 4.2GHz necessary? no, but people do it anyways.[/QUOTE] Depends on what it's used for.
Dual core phones are coming soon. [url]http://www.phonescoop.com/news/item.php?n=6565[/url]
[QUOTE=Tools;24797437]They got 3½ months to make a dual core phone :colbert:[/QUOTE] Just wait. December 31st is still this year, it may come out on that day.
[QUOTE=Pixel Heart;24797426] [B]1080x1920[/B] [/QUOTE] Does your monitor look like this? [img]http://www.pclaunches.com/entry_images/0107/30/rotate-monitor.jpg[/img]
[QUOTE=PunchedInFac;24799155]Does your monitor look like this? [img]http://www.pclaunches.com/entry_images/0107/30/rotate-monitor.jpg[/img][/QUOTE] Why not? A lot of programmers do that as well as other people that do lots of Word documents. [editline]06:27AM[/editline] [QUOTE=zombiefreak;24797612]Dual core phones are coming soon. [url]http://www.phonescoop.com/news/item.php?n=6565[/url][/QUOTE] Says they're coming in Q4.
Hopefully there's a battery to match this processing power..
Couldn't you use these in laptops? That would probably increase the battery life by a good bit.
Quad Core phones.. hm.. Awesome, but better battery tech is much more needed though.
I'm sure they'll find some way to waste all this power. Probably just do everything brute force in a Ruby interpreter built on top of the Java virtual machine running in Windows CE on Bochs. Whenever they make hardware faster, programmers find a way to make software slower.
[QUOTE=Agent766;24799248]Why not? A lot of programmers do that as well as other people that do lots of Word documents. [/QUOTE] [quote= The venerable PixelHeart][B]For people like me who encode Blu-ray movies to H.264 (.m2ts container) @ 1080x1920, yes[/B].[/quote] ------>Joke Vector Head. Thing is you dont need to spend 1000$ to get good encoding performance. The 1090T will do within 30 seconds to one minute of the 980x's time in encoding for about a fifth of the price and the same amount of cores. On other news: Anyone know when the quad core Zosma/Thuban derivative will come out? [editline]03:22PM[/editline] [QUOTE=GoDong-DK;24800206]Couldn't you use these in laptops? That would probably increase the battery life by a good bit.[/QUOTE] I guess that they will be as powerful as the current best dual-core atom, and I am sure that AMD and Intel will provide better low-power processors for net/notebooks.
I wonder what kind of stuff we could do on our phones in the future.
Smartphones are developing so fast right now it's incredible.
[QUOTE=Inacio;24802063]And I remember my gaming rig... Pentium MMX 200MHz, 64MB RAM, VGA card, Creative Sound Blaster... Damn, some memories. :frown:[/QUOTE] Doom, hexxen, heretic. those were the days.
This is starting to blur the boundaries between cell phone and computer. It's just basically making a normal pc smaller and capable of calling.
[QUOTE=Alcapwne;24802219]This is starting to blur the boundaries between cell phone and computer. It's just basically making a normal pc smaller and capable of calling.[/QUOTE] .... Skype.
I don't see battery life technology getting any better to compensate for this
[QUOTE=booster;24801792]I wonder what kind of stuff we could do on our phones in the future.[/QUOTE]Render on the go.
[QUOTE=Armotekma;24797292]is having an i7 980x clocked at 4.2GHz necessary? no, but people do it anyways.[/QUOTE] Not relevent.
[QUOTE=B1N4RY!;24796911]Is this really necessary?[/QUOTE] 640K ought to be enough for everyone!
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