Samsung to Ship Dual-Core Smartphones in 2012
Samsung to Ship Dual-Core Smartphones in 2012
Posted 04/19/2011 at 5:44am
| by Paul Lilly
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It's amazing how far smartphone technology has come. What started off as glorified dumb phones has evolved into bona fide mini-PCs that fit into your shirt pocket, and the hardware inside improves with each new generation. The next big upgrade is dual-core processors. AT&T's Atrix 4G from Motorola has a dual-core chip, but we're still very much living in a single-core smartphone world. That will change in 2012 as more smartphone makers jump on the multi-core bandwagon, including Samsung.
According to Samsung South Korea, the smartphone maker "will be releasing a smartphone that boasts performance levels matching desktop PCs." That's because this upcoming device will come equipped with a dual-core processor running at 2GHz, a good 800MHz faster than the those speedy 1.2GHz single-core chips in today's high-end smartphones.
"It is easier to manufacturer a single 4GHz CPU unit instead ofa dual-core 2GHz CPU unit, but Samsung is opting for the dual-core as it is better optimized for smartphone products," Samsung said. "Dual-core facilitates multitasking using smartphones by allotting the workload on two separate cores."
Sounds good to us, though here's hoping battery life also benefits from an efficient dual-core design versus a single-core chip.
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Theatre Booth Guy
April 19, 2011 at 9:32pm
Are you sure the 4GHz chips are easier to make - if that were really the case, our desktops would have that short of speed. In a heat and power restricted space (pocket size device), a smarter not faster chip wins.
Tekzel
April 20, 2011 at 4:35am
There's a huuuuge difference between the embedded processors in a smartphone and the ones in our desktop PCs. Don't think that what applies to one also applies to the other.
thetechchild
April 19, 2011 at 9:38am
It says 2012 in the article, but I'm not clear on the issue.
However, faster phones for more general-purpose usage and better multitasking sound great. We might even be seeing dedicated GPUs outside of the CPU soon enough. The possibilities are endless for developers and end-users alike.
AETAaAS
April 19, 2011 at 8:05am
The article's title is a little confusing. Isn't it that Samsung is aiming for a 2GHz dual core next year? IIRC, the Galaxy S2 which is powered by a 1.2GHz dual core is going to come out in the next few months.
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