Holy cow! 1.2Ghz dual core CPU's in your phone!! Thats progress.
Thrax, remember the first pocket PC that hit 66 megahertz it was about as fast as a Pentium i486, and people said, wow, its like carrying a little computer, LOL. Funny thing is, it really was not all that long ago, 8 or 9 years ago maybe?
I said in an article a while back that the next CPU race would be fought on the phone, and news like this makes me feel pretty justified in that assertion. All the major ARM players are working their asses off to bring more cores and faster speeds... Marvell has a quad core, NVIDIA and Qualcomm have dual cores, Apple is in the game, Texas Instruments is by no means idle... This is crazy stuff. I love smartphones so much!
I said in an article a while back that the next CPU race would be fought on the phone, and news like this makes me feel pretty justified in that assertion. All the major ARM players are working their asses off to bring more cores and faster speeds... Marvell has a quad core, NVIDIA and Qualcomm have dual cores, Apple is in the game, Texas Instruments is by no means idle... This is crazy stuff. I love smartphones so much!
I think your right. Mobile is going to be the volume business, maybe not the most profitable chip for chip, but the guys with the right designs are going to sell massive qty for major handsets. Its going to be a massive volume business. The way smart phones are going, consumers almost have a yearly desire to upgrade. A guy buys a desktop computer, or even a laptop, he might carry that system to the next major OS release that he feels a need for, that market is just so mature in comparison.
I'm not a big smart phone enthusiast personally, but I do admire the progression in mobile tech. From grey-scale pda's to what we have now just over the past decade. Its pretty amazing.
fwiw, people are OCing and undervolting the Snapdragons on the N1 and Desire to 1267MHz and higher (a 1342 is stable on most people's Desires). Sounds like Qualcomm's happy enough with their thermal envelope to push it up a little more. Wonder how much headroom the new chips will have...
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Thrax, remember the first pocket PC that hit 66 megahertz it was about as fast as a Pentium i486, and people said, wow, its like carrying a little computer, LOL. Funny thing is, it really was not all that long ago, 8 or 9 years ago maybe?
Wow... just wow.
I think your right. Mobile is going to be the volume business, maybe not the most profitable chip for chip, but the guys with the right designs are going to sell massive qty for major handsets. Its going to be a massive volume business. The way smart phones are going, consumers almost have a yearly desire to upgrade. A guy buys a desktop computer, or even a laptop, he might carry that system to the next major OS release that he feels a need for, that market is just so mature in comparison.
I'm not a big smart phone enthusiast personally, but I do admire the progression in mobile tech. From grey-scale pda's to what we have now just over the past decade. Its pretty amazing.
If only we could do drop-in phone proc upgrades.... -sigh-