Mass production of eight-core Qualcomm processors will begin in the summer
A man went to bathe, and his invisible hand under the water grabbed the cores and the voice came out: plus two or minus two? Plus, any better than minus, he thought, and answered: plus two. Got out of the water - and he has 4 cores. He thinks: I climbed back, now I will say minus two. He returned to the water, his hand grabbed him again and a voice came again: plus four or minus four?
I remembered this anecdote when I read that the mass production of the first eight-core processors of the Californian company Qualcomm will begin this summer. It seems that the invisible hand of the market has grabbed the developers firmly and does not let go.
The first on the conveyor of the Taiwan factory Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) will rise Snapdragon 615 - a chip for mid-level smartphones. And by the end of the year, Qualcomm promises to launch the release of future flagship engines: 64-bit eight-cores with 4G Snapdragon 810 support and a six-core Snapdragon 808 , which was announced in April .
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The main intrigue now is which of the top smartphones of the future will be the first to comeout of the water with eight cores. Perhaps this will be expected in September, Samsung Galaxy Note 4 - or have to wait for the traditional flagship premieres in early 2015.
However, there is a small chance that the Kvalkomm plans for the championship will be broken by LG, which is developing its own eight-core called Odin . There are suggestions that the upcoming premiere of the LG G3 will be shown its eight-core version.
As for the processors themselves, to evaluate the news, it should be divided into semantic parts:
On the one hand, the race for the number of cores in smartphones repeats the history of the race for megapixels, the number of which has long been simply a competition of advertising numbers - all other things being equal, beyond a certain limit of the number of pixels on the shooting quality is no longer affected. The same thing is happening now with processors - neither the capabilities of the number of cores, nor the increased capacity of the current software and the limited size of the RAM of modern smartphones are really used.
On the other hand, new features will pull the software using them, and new requirements will have to tighten up the hardware. Somehow progress works, right?
and thirdly: the new chips will be manufactured using a 20-nanometer process. And this is really good news, because Reducing the process means saving the battery, less overheating and greater performance compared to the 22 nm and higher chips that dominate the market.
Since the impracticality of the race for the cores does not negate the benefits of improving the production technology of processors, the news account is still in favor of Kvalkomm innovations. We are waiting for smartphones on new chips.
I remembered this anecdote when I read that the mass production of the first eight-core processors of the Californian company Qualcomm will begin this summer. It seems that the invisible hand of the market has grabbed the developers firmly and does not let go.
The first on the conveyor of the Taiwan factory Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) will rise Snapdragon 615 - a chip for mid-level smartphones. And by the end of the year, Qualcomm promises to launch the release of future flagship engines: 64-bit eight-cores with 4G Snapdragon 810 support and a six-core Snapdragon 808 , which was announced in April .
')
The main intrigue now is which of the top smartphones of the future will be the first to come
However, there is a small chance that the Kvalkomm plans for the championship will be broken by LG, which is developing its own eight-core called Odin . There are suggestions that the upcoming premiere of the LG G3 will be shown its eight-core version.
As for the processors themselves, to evaluate the news, it should be divided into semantic parts:
On the one hand, the race for the number of cores in smartphones repeats the history of the race for megapixels, the number of which has long been simply a competition of advertising numbers - all other things being equal, beyond a certain limit of the number of pixels on the shooting quality is no longer affected. The same thing is happening now with processors - neither the capabilities of the number of cores, nor the increased capacity of the current software and the limited size of the RAM of modern smartphones are really used.
On the other hand, new features will pull the software using them, and new requirements will have to tighten up the hardware. Somehow progress works, right?
and thirdly: the new chips will be manufactured using a 20-nanometer process. And this is really good news, because Reducing the process means saving the battery, less overheating and greater performance compared to the 22 nm and higher chips that dominate the market.
Since the impracticality of the race for the cores does not negate the benefits of improving the production technology of processors, the news account is still in favor of Kvalkomm innovations. We are waiting for smartphones on new chips.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/223571/
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