Mobile processor moves to eight-core gimmicks above actual demand

NetEase technology News August 26, mobile phone processor "nuclear" is more and more, with Samsung and MediaTek on the eight-core processor, mobile phone "nuclear war" will be upgraded again, but this time, including Qualcomm and many industrial chain enterprises began the anti-nuclear war. No one can deny the concept of multi-core to the sales pull. Marvell China Vice president Ding Bin on, it is the dual-core into the four-core era, Marvell determined the performance of the single core, rather than the pursuit of multi-core, the results in the market suffered setbacks. But the data from the Testin application test platform shows that most applications use only two cores, while the outside of the big performance game is only a single core, such data and the user's general understanding is not consistent. Market gimmicks are higher than actual demand, but the next nuclear war may still be unavoidable. Manufacturer Decision MediaTek is an advocate for the eight-core processor, although not officially sold, but in early August, MediaTek issued eight of the nuclear processor to make the industry more nervous. Qualcomm became a staunch faction of the anti-nuclear war at an industry development salon organised by the Mobile China Alliance. Baoshan, director of Qualcomm's China product market, said that, according to the calculations, the handset processor's contribution to smartphone performance is no more than 20%, while the pursuit of nuclear quantity is meaningless. Qualcomm, although it made four nuclear products, but its strongest products are still concentrated in the dual-core grade. Boton that nuclear war is not the right direction, but it is still the industry has to follow the market compromise. There are currently only eight nuclear processors in the market that are Samsung, but there are rumors that Huawei and Nvidia are also doing the relevant product development. The nuclear war reflects the competitive state of industrial enterprises. The decision is now in the hands of the market, where several chip makers based on the arm architecture are in a freer competitive environment without the tendency of individual companies to dominate the industry. The consumer pursues multi-core here, the operator is the spokesperson of the consumer. BYD Mobile phone chip business owner shares a real scene: when they took part in an operator's bid, the target was a dual-core processor, and BYD had an advantage in price, but one competitor said it could use the same price but supply four of the core products, and finally BYD lost the bill. In China's largest smartphone market, operator channels, although cheaper, have an advantage in numbers. Analysts think this is not a problem for operators, because in the three or four-line market, consumers do have to pay for multi-core, even if they buy back may not be used, but the same price, a dual-core, a four-core, consumers will choose the latter. Is the multicore really useless? Some application developers believe that the possibility of using eight cores full at the application level in one to two years is low, but in the long run it is likely to be a future trend, and in the near term, the gimmicks will be higher than performance. Another way to look at it is that Google is probably the right person to say, because the Android system itself is designed to be the language that determines the direction of applications and chips. According to the latest Android information, in addition to CP on the phoneOutside of u, the GPU is probably the key to performance improvement. (Wang Jiecong)