Comments on: TI Sees Multicore Phones Coming in 2011

By: Video: For Phones, Double Your Cores, Double Your Fun! «

Video: For Phones, Double Your Cores, Double Your Fun! « — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 19:22:53 +0000

[...] I’ve been writing about multicore phones for a while, mostly because I’ve been eagerly awaiting the day my phone becomes powerful enough to be my [...]

By: Brian Carlson

Brian Carlson — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 23:56:31 +0000

Power is high priority with every decision made in the smartphone silicon. The situation is different than the laptops that started out with high-power process. With each smartphone generation (in low-power process), performance is increasing 3-5x to meet consumer demands, and battery technology is not improving much which works against it. On top of this the screens are getting bigger (4″ +) which is a big part of the power budget. We have made incredible decreases in silicon power consumption at every process node with a large toolbox of techniques. In the end we have increased audio playtime from 20 hours to 140 hours in the past few generations and can do 1080p video in power that is less than VGA in the past. Lots more performance in the same power budget – incredible progress has been made. This is one way to look what is happening – features/capabilities increase within the same power budget over time in smartphones.

By: Stephen Tong

Stephen Tong — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 23:40:01 +0000

They really need to work on improving the battery life on smartphones. Should be the #1 priority. They finally figured it out for laptops. Smart phones should be next.

By: With More Cores, the Cell Phone Closes in on the Computer

With More Cores, the Cell Phone Closes in on the Computer — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 04:01:47 +0000

[...] idea of smartphones with multiple processor cores isn’t a new one — last year I talked to Texas Instruments about it, and earlier this year Qualcomm said it would release a dual-core processor that could hit [...]

By: Can Qualcomm Compete As Smartphones Become Computers? – GigaOM

Can Qualcomm Compete As Smartphones Become Computers? – GigaOM — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 15:56:15 +0000

[...] and are increasingly mimicking the functionality of a full-fledged PC. New capabilities such as multicore processors in phones and the ability to send HDMI video out mean that the brains inside our phones need more performance [...]

By: The multicore mobile « SoftTalk – multicore and parallel programming

The multicore mobile « SoftTalk – multicore and parallel programming — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:05:59 +0000

[...] « Amdahl’s law in the multicore era The multicore mobile 30/06/2009 Gigaom reported last week on Texas Instruments waxing lyrical about multicore mobiles. According to the [...]

By: This Week in BlackBerry #61 « This Week in BlackBerry

This Week in BlackBerry #61 « This Week in BlackBerry — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 10:59:56 +0000

[...] Texas Instruments is betting that a more powerful cell phone, one that uses identical computing cores working in parallel inside the application processor, a setup it calls symmetric multicore processing, will be here as soon as 2011. Such phones, which will be built with multicore ARM-based chips, will allow for faster processing on mobile phones without sacrificing battery life.GigaOm [...]

By: Brian Carlson

Brian Carlson — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 23:30:59 +0000

Thanks Ronak. With over 40 products in the pipeline, and with my focus on future processors, it is hard to keep track of all the phone release dates. Also, I only knew both of these phones by their previous codenames which makes it more difficult! Look forward to more exciting products coming this year.

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:12:39 +0000

What’s interesting is that Motorola is already using Open Kernel Labs OKL4 mobile phone virtualization solution for their new Evoke QA4. It was announced some time ago that Qualcomm would be standardizing their next-generation chipsets on OKL4 as well. With OKL4 on more than 300MM devices, including the G1, and dozens more designs, it’s fair to say the mobile/wireless market has adopted OKL4 as the emerging, open source, standard.

By: Ronak Joshi

Ronak Joshi — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 08:28:00 +0000

Brian, don’t forget you actually had OMAP3430 inside a handset Samsung’s i8910 one month earlier in May ;-) Looking forward to the Satio and other OMAP3 handsets later in the year – Nokia????