Quad-core phones? Old news. All the manufacturers are doing that now. How about a 48-core CPU for smartphones and tablets? Intel’s looking to shake up the mobile market and make that kind of processing power a reality within the next ten years. Intel developers are currently looking into using and managing multiple cores in a mobile processor to really push what our smartphones can do.
Enric Herrero, a research scientist for Intel, talked a bit about processor power in smartphones. He explained how work can be divided between multiple cores today, but because of the lack of resources in phones, the operations tend to drag because the cores have to share resources to do all the work. It’s important to note that Intel is looking not only at using those multiple cores, but managing them as well, to overcome those lack of resources.
Intel’s CTO, Justin Rattner, is pretty positive about these multi-core chips. He thinks these multi-core processors could hit mobile devices much sooner than the researchers’ ten-year prediction. With the rate that phones have been progressing just within the past two years, I think it’s definitely possible.
Intel has had a hard time breaking into mobile computing with their processors even though they’ve got a pretty tight grip on the desktop side of computing. I think something as big as this would be great for their presence in the mobile market. What do you think? Are 48-core chips pointless, or revolutionary? Let us know in the comments.
Source: ComputerWorld
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