TI Announces Quad-Core, 2 GHz Smartphone SoC

[cold fire]

Maybe we should consider a core i7 980X@4GHz CPU a 48GHz beast and then people will understand how much powerful PC's still are when compared with smartphones.
Any way, the gap is certainly closing between these two form factors and it will be within the next years that either mobile PC's beat smartphones, smartphones kill mobile PC's or they become one thing as already happened with handheld PC's, but I honestly hope desktop PC's never disappear, because we, the enthusiast crowd, know where the power really is 😀

If this ever happens I would no longer be sane. Every time I upgrade a part of my PC or build a new one I start to have semi-infinite huge orgasms.

 

[southernshark]

[citation][nom]reconviperone1[/nom]Likely release date 2013, LOL, as if anyone will be around to buy it, Better release it before DEC 21,2012 if they want to sell it.[/citation]

You might want to brush up on your Mayan Prophecy. While it is true that the Mayan's predict the "end" of the world in 12/12/2012, it is also true that their own end was predicted in the summer of 1519, the year the Conquistador Hernan Cortez came to Mexico. It actually took Cortez two years to wipe out the Aztec and about a dozen more to finish off the Mayans. Hence 12/12/2012 should be thought of as the beginning of the end of the world.

My prediction, it is the day when computers become self aware....

 

[soundping]

It's not a real phone until we can burn a blu-ray with it.

 

[fans 6]

I see TI is getting ready to unleash a horde of new powerful Graphing Calculators......

 

[applegetsmelaid]

Good Ol' Texas Instruments - I missed you guys.

 

[eddieroolz]

2GHz in 2 years. That sounds about right.

 

[Accidental]

[citation][nom]winterblade[/nom]Maybe we should consider a core i7 980X@4GHz CPU a 48GHz beast and then people will understand how much powerful PC's still are when compared with smartphones.Any way, the gap is certainly closing between these two form factors and it will be within the next years that either mobile PC's beat smartphones, smartphones kill mobile PC's or they become one thing as already happened with handheld PC's, but I honestly hope desktop PC's never disappear, because we, the enthusiast crowd, know where the power really is[/citation]

No need to worry about battery life. Just like desktop CPUs, the speed and efficiency continuously increases, and the power consumption typically stays the same or decreases. The same holds true to mobile CPUs.

 

[alextheblue]

It's not really a full quad core, and TI isn't marketing it as such. The two smaller M4 cores don't implement the full ARM instruction set. They're meant as accelerators for certain tasks... kind of like SPUs. It's really a dual core with SPUs, a GPU, and other dedicated-purpose chips. But I'll admit those two main A15 cores are looking pretty beefy. 50% more performance than the already-good A9, at the same clocks? With much higher clocks on top of that? Yeah.

 

[sudeshc]

Now its time to brake 5 GHz barrier for general use hehehehehe

 

[reconviperone1]

I wonder if the mayans could predict that i was going to make a mockery of their predictions,lol