Analyst: Netbooks and smartphones will move towards multi-core next year
In the evening of December 23, Beijing time, according to foreign media reports today, Jim McGregor, chief technology strategy officer of US market research company In-Stat, published a research report saying that next year will be mobile Internet access such as netbooks and smartphones. The equipment adopts multi-core processors for a critical year.
He expects that mobile Internet devices and ultra-portable PCs will gradually adopt multi-core CPUs next year, while other consumer products will achieve this transition in 2012 and 2013. McGregor said that by 2013, 88% of mobile devices will use multi-core processors.
Although multi-core processors are increasingly used in servers and PCs, currently mobile devices such as netbooks and smartphones rarely use multi-core processors.
McGregor said that multi-core is currently used in processors based on the X-86 architecture, but he said that with the transition to multi-core, the ARM architecture will get faster growth. He added that the multi-core capabilities of mobile device processors will move toward integrating graphics and multimedia acceleration, rather than providing high-speed computing capabilities in traditional multi-core designs.
However, industry insiders reacted differently to McGregor's expectations.
Intel's Atom processor is designed for netbooks and mobile Internet devices, and currently only has a single-core architecture. An Intel spokesman said that only the entry-level desktop computers that Intel calls Nettop use multi-core Atom processors.
An Intel spokesperson said: "The next-generation Atom processor (coded as Moorestown) for portable devices such as mobile Internet devices and smartphones will also be single-core. We have not announced any plans to launch multi-core processors for such products. "
BlackBerry maker RIM does not currently have smartphone products that use multi-core processors. The company declined to comment on future products. However, a RIM spokesperson said that the company has noticed a trend in smartphones, that is, consumers want to do more with smartphones, whether it is work or leisure.
The spokesman said: "We expect that companies will develop and launch new technologies in the future to support this demand."
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