Is the smartphone also quad-core, progressive or wasteful?

The chip maker Freescale, originally a Motorola semiconductor division, was split into an independent company in 2003 and is now the world’s top 20 supplier of semiconductor chips. Recently it released its own next-generation processor i. MX6, the focus of the promotion is the quad-core ARM Cortex A9. i. There are three combinations of MX6: single-core, dual-core, and quad-core. The main targets are consumer electronics markets including e-books, e-book readers, and mobile phones, automotive information, and mobile medical applications.

With three combinations, the Cortex A9 clock frequency can reach 1.2 GHz. For the current smart phone, quad-core Cortex A9 is undoubtedly a serious performance surplus, and is likely to have a negative impact on volume, cost and power consumption. Perhaps because of this consideration, Freescale is releasing i. The MX6 places special emphasis on its advantages in e-readers and tablet computers. All four e-readers currently use Freescale's processor in addition to the Nook. There will also be 23 Tablet PCs with Freescale processors released on the CES.

As the most powerful ARM core processor available today, i. The MX6 supports 1080p 3D video playback (performance requirements are twice as fast as 2D video); it supports VP8 hardware decoding; dual camera 3D video recording; GPU triangle generation rate of 200 Mt/s is more than twice that of Tegra 2. Multi-core can share the complex operations of augmented reality applications in AR (real-improvement applications require the simultaneous calculation of position information, processing of video captured by the camera, and overlaying information onto possible video streams).

When it comes to multi-core processors, in addition to performance, another problem that is easy to think of is power consumption. Although Freescale gave a very vague "24-hour HD video playback time," another number is less exciting - the hardware-decoded 1080p video consumes 350mW. Currently, other Cortex A8 core processors on the market have a power consumption of about 200mW for hard-to-get 720p. If it is a portable MP4 processor, it can be controlled at about 100mW.

The quad-core phone is not far away from us, and Freescale expects to start i in the second half of this year. MX6 sample, the final product is optimistic about the time to market is the second half of 2012. When I saw this news, to be honest, I was a bit unhappy at first: In a blink of an eye, even the mobile phone had four cores. Can that single-core PC of my family still live? But think carefully, quad-core, usually on that point in daily use, need it? In fact, for the individual's desire, there is no end, or that sentence: enough is enough!

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