Quad-core chips in mobile phones is nothing but a marketing snow job
21.05.12
Images of Superman and phrases like “faster than a speeding-bullet!” are what Nvidia wants consumers to conjure in their minds when thinking of its new quad-core, mobile-oriented Tegra 3 SoC . Announced last February as a world-first, Kal-El is set to make its debut in the upcoming Android-powered Asus Transformer Prime tablet . Promising up to five times the performance of the Tegra 2, Nvidia has said that the chip is definitely coming to tablet devices, and now with news of the upcoming HTC Edge , it looks like Tegra 3 will be coming to phones as well. The Edge is reported to be the world’s first quad-core handset, making it theoretically the fastest mobile phone on the planet. That is all well and good, but even though more power is always wanted, mobile developers and manufacturers are not ready to take advantage of such hardware. Until improvements in battery life and the level of app development come into line with this kind of technology, it’s nothing but a waste of money.
Source: ExtremeTech