Qualcomm: Mobile Processor Core Wars are Pointless

[kyuuketsuki]

Nice. An article based on another article based on a translation from English to Chinese and back again.

Next time you draw from a source that is talking about what somebody said at a *Chinese* conference, you should probably wait a little while to make sure the translation didn't get garbled up. Just sayin'.

 

[iam2thecrowe]

[citation][nom]jn77[/nom]This is absurd. Even a GS3 will get bogged down (US Dual Core version) if you are running 2-3 apps at once and try to open a 1080p video (which it has to down scale). That problem won't happen with 4 cores, or the affect of the slow down will be lessened by the extra 2 cores.[/citation]
who runs 2-3 apps and plays a 1080p video at the same time on a phone? actually, who plays 1080p video on a phone at all, the screen is too small? Did you spend all your money on a phone and dont have a tv?

 

[kettu]

In the headline you claim your source is http://tech.sina.com.cn/t/2013-01-16/00027980810.shtml?ystfuv
But in reality it turns out to be a rewrite of an Unwired View article. For which you din't provide a link even in the update where you admitted it. http://www.unwiredview.com/2013/01/16/qualcomm-ceo-about-samsungs-eight-core-exynos-5-octa-its-just-a-misleading-publicity-stunt/

Isn't this plagiarism? Shouldn't you be ashamed of yourself?

 

[sna]

[citation][nom]iam2thecrowe[/nom]who runs 2-3 apps and plays a 1080p video at the same time on a phone? actually, who plays 1080p video on a phone at all, the screen is too small? Did you spend all your money on a phone and dont have a tv?[/citation]

your statement logic is go back to 200x200 lcd phones display ... who needs 1080P display

or who needs 8k resolution TV we have 1080P TVs

this is a relative thing you know ... when it becomes cheap enough WHY NOT ...

there was a time when 1080P TV costed 10000$ and most people where happy with 480P TVs .. same with Phones .. we were VERY HAPPY with 2 inch 65k colors 200x200 phones ... today , no one accept or like this at ALL

I am happy people in the industry dont think like you ...

 

[scannall]

[citation][nom]sna[/nom]your statement logic is go back to 200x200 lcd phones display ... who needs 1080P displayor who needs 8k resolution TV we have 1080P TVsthis is a relative thing you know ... when it becomes cheap enough WHY NOT ...there was a time when 1080P TV costed 10000$ and most people where happy with 480P TVs .. same with Phones .. we were VERY HAPPY with 2 inch 65k colors 200x200 phones ... today , no one accept or like this at ALLI am happy people in the industry dont think like you ...[/citation]

This is a strawman argument. Once you run past the limits of human biology, there is no longer a purpose. Say in the future you have a cell phone with 4k resolution. Are you going to be sad if an 8k resolution phone comes out? Even though there is no perceptible difference, as both are far past your eyes ability to resolve the difference?

 

[olaf]

[citation][nom]santeana[/nom]Yeah.. and "640K ought to be enough for anyone", right?[/citation]

All i have to say is that i have a DualCore 1.2 in my phone and my biggest gripe is the shitty battery life.... but speed wise ... its bloody snappy...

 

[Avus]

[citation][nom]alexthager[/nom]Behind in technology? AMD has an 8-core FX series, yet Intel's 2600K is much more powerful. It's not always about cores.[/citation]

So are you saying if Intel made a 8 core CPU will be slower than their own Quad core?? Intel doesn't make 8 core cpu is because they can still milk you with quad and 6 core cpu. If AMD can make a world leading 8 core cpu, I am sure Intel will make one yesterday! BTW, it is about Qualcomm, why the hell you bring up intel and AMD and computer cpu?

Also if Qualcomm is not behind in mobile processor tech, is there a Qualcomm processor run faster or as fast as the Samsung Exynos5 Octa?

And all these saying about 8core is useless, that is too much... This just sounds like old people talking. Like the me at 20 years ago using an Intel 486DX2 with 16mb of RAM will never dream of having a quad core computer running at 3GHZ with 12GB of RAM!! Just because the current OS and apps don't need 8core doesn't mean there is no need to develop one now. You don't wait until your OS and apps run sluggish and inefficient then you start design one. It doesn't work this way. It is always new hardware come out first and people write software to take advantage of them.

Last, it is ALWAYS about the number of core.... look server, GPU, supercomputer....

 

[digiex]

Don't they consider battery life is also a consumer conseration, will you have to keep the phone tethered the the charger, or will they supply a 1Kg battery to go with it.

Forget the one kilogram battery, I prefer a lightweight lithium ion battery and a 1 square meter of solar panel above my head, it also provide shade during sunny days.

 

[blackened144]

[citation][nom]digiex[/nom]Forget the one kilogram battery, I prefer a lightweight lithium ion battery and a 1 square meter of solar panel above my head, it also provide shade during sunny days.[/citation]
Just put solar panels on this guys hat.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OADJl-CVDo0

 

[contrasia]

[citation][nom]Niva[/nom]I'm not sure how/why your post is being up-rated. We live in a material world. Where supercomputers are concerned money is not an issue for these companies. If something existed that could be feasibly produced and perform as you've described it would've already been done. The technological and economical aspects of these challenges function in one world, the real world. On topic, phones will continue to duke it out in terms of performance just like PCs have since the mid 90s when benchmarking performance became important. Performance will continue to be important and better performance will cost more to put in your pocket than lower performing parts of the same generation hardware. We can never have enough peformance and this is where Qualcomm is just wrong. Until I can run a super-computer equivalent out of my pocket, have it capable of installing a windows virtual machine, run desktop monitor, keyboard and audio when docked (meaning: simply rested against a charge pad on my desk) I will not be satisfied. I'm waiting for the day they start plugging us into the matrix directly.[/citation]

If He/she is talking about in the future, then actually everything will level out and form factor won't be such a big deal. More specifically, in Quauntum Computing, All the rules change. Not even cost will have much of a factor. The only way it would is if the capitalist society that we live in, purposefully raise the costs of larger versions even tho the benefits are non-existant and they have no justification, which is a possibility, but he isn't wrong when he said Mobile phones would be as powerful as supercomputers in the future.... just, a fair ways away that's all.