Dual-core smartphone processors haven’t had their sufficient honeymoon considering Quad-core smartphone processors are already the latest chatter. Leaked pictures of the HTC Edge, which will be the first smartphone to run on NVidia’s yet-to-be announced Tegra 3 processor, have already surfaced. The new Tegra 3 sports four 1.5GHz cores, allowing the processor to simultaneously run multiple sets of program instructions.
The HTC Edge will feature a 4.7-inch 720p HD Super LCD 2 with optical lamination, 32GB of built-in storage, 1GB of RAM, an 8-megapixel camera with backside-illumination and support for 1080p HD video capture, a 720p front-facing camera, Beats Audio, Bluetooth 4.0, an 1,800 mAh battery and an NFC chip. It will sport a remarkably thin 8.8-millimeter unibody case.
The flagship HTC Edge superphone will launch in March or April next year, and it will feature Google’s latest Android operating system, Android 4.0 “Ice Cream Sandwich.” Google unveiled Android 4.0 alongside Samsung’s Galaxy Nexus earlier this month, and it merges features from Gingerbread and Honeycomb into a single OS for both smartphones and tablets. Samsung, LG and Motorola are also already working on smartphones that will utilize NVIDIA’s quad-core chipset.
Processor companies like Nvidia, Intel and AMD have develop multi-core processors to increase clock speed. Multi-core chips can clock at lower speeds, but because of the multiple processors, they deliver super fast performance. Mobile operating systems and apps should be available for multiple cores to take maximum advantage of workload distribution.
If rumors are to be believed, the Tegra 3, codenamed Kal-El, should be very fast.
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