Cortex-A50 Chips With Thrice Performance Increase By ARM

                      The A50 Cortex chips have been announced by ARM today,which are supposed to be 3 times faster than the fastest processors of today, keeping battery life in mind as well.T ARM’s timeline matched AMD’s as well, as they expect to ship the first A50-based devices to ship in 2014.


                  ARM says that the performance boosts will be due to multi-threading improvements, a shift to 64-bit processing, and perhaps most importantly a die-shrink, as the A-50 series chips will be made with transistors that are a mere 20nm across. As with any die-shrink, that will lead to faster and more efficient circuitry. The backwards-compatible 64-bit processing is also interesting, as it allows chips to “seamlessly transition from a 32-bit to a 64-bit execution state”, so in the next few years phone and tablet chips will be ready for a shift to 64-bit computing (and concurrent increases in RAM size), paving the way for ever more complex mobile OSes.

           ARM also  announced two chips as the lmain products of the A50 series, the Cortex-A53 and the Cortex-A57. The A57 will be the high-end performance chip, and we can expect to see them in some of the most beastly mobile devices in 2014 . The A53 will be held to around the same computational power as todays Cortex-A9 processors, but they will be much smaller in size and use about 1/5th of the energy. The size-shrink might make them more useful for wearable computers and other embedded devices, with more battery juice as well
             On the other hand,Intel is also not left behind.They are already seeing the future dominated by 48 core processors! 
          What do you reckon?

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Intel Researching On 48 Core Processors In Phones And Tablets

Everyone knows that someday or the other soon enough quad core processors will be history.They will be replaced by much more sophisticated,more powerful chipsets. But where will this lead to?

                   According to Intel ,in five to ten years we could be seeing 48-core processors.Sonds incredible right?Infact,Intel sees 48-core processors powering both smartphones and tablets. That's twelve times as many as there are in a high-end chip available today! Needless to say, having so many cores on a single piece of silicon would allow smartphones and tablets to handle CPU-intensive tasks with ease by splitting the workload. For example, if someone is watching a high-resolution video, each frame could be decoded by an individual core. Advanced tasks that currently require processing to be offloaded to a computer in the cloud will be performed offline. All the while, Intel promises that such chips will be energy efficient.

                        However, there are a few problems, and one of the most significant ones is the software used on smartphones and tablets today. Simply put, the code is not yet optimized to distribute tasks among so many cores. In fact, even consumer-grade desktop operating systems aren't ready for such chips. That's why we'll have to settle down with what we have today and wait patiently for researchers to finish their work.

What do you people think?Lets know in the comments!

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Quad Core Vs Dual Core CPUs

Pentium D logo as of 2006 

It was in 2005 that the first batch of multi core processors started appearing in desktops & laptops.Though Intel currently has the lion's share of different x86/x86-64 multicore processor models, AMD beat Intel to market with its Opteron dual core back in April 2005. The Intel Pentium D dual core followed in May 2005.

The single core processor (the Pentium Series)is now just a memory(though i still use one).So lets start our comparison .

1.Advantages

Having a multicore CPU means that the processor can work on more than one problem at a time, or it can work on a large problem more efficiently if the program is built that way. Multitasking is easy to explain: If you're browsing the web, checking email constanly, and calculating the 20,000 cells in your latest spreadsheet all at the same time, having multiple cores means that core 1 can be working on the email, core 2 on the Flash webpage you're viewing, and cores 3 and 4 on the spreadsheet. When you have a single task that needs to be done right away, multiple cores can help you by breaking the task into smaller chunks, working on each chunk in parallel, and thus you'll get your work done quicker. An example of this is the 3D rendering of a still image. Most modern rendering programs can break the task into blocks, then parcel those blocks to each core as needed, and then the final image is put together at the end.

2.Clock Speed Or Cores

On the whole, a system with a faster dual-core will feel faster in day-to-day work, but the quad core will reward you when you multitask or the more esoteric/scientific your work. This is of course, a generality, but it generally fits. For example: The 3.1GHz Intel Core i3-2100 (dual-core) in the Gateway ZX6961-UB20P got a very good 2,639 point score at PCMark7 (a test of day-to-day use), but only a 2.99 point score at CineBench R11.5 (a 3D rendering test). Around the same time we tested a "slower" Intel Core 2.7GHz Core i5-2500S (quad-core) in a HP Compaq 8200 Elite USDT which got a much lower 2,190 score on PCMark7, but a much higher 4.45 point score on CineBench. The extra cache and cores in the i5-2500S helped the HP get a much higher score on the CineBench R11.5 test, where such enhancements benefit performance. In day-to-day tasks, both will seem similar, or at worse the HP will seem slower than the Gateway at an earlier stage in its useful life. 

3.Verdict

You can (almost) always upgrade your memory or get speedier storage in the future when your computer starts to "feel slow" (and they all do after a while). More memory and speedy storage helps any PC feel faster because you spend less time waiting for stuff to happen. Upgrading to a faster processor isn't an option for most mortals, unless they are familiar with the pain of unhooking heat sinks and spreading thermal paste. : A system that is the fastest in its class when you buy it will continue to feel faster longer than a system that is merely adequate when you buy it. You want a quad-core processor if you're the type that likes to keep 150 browser tabs open while you check your IM, email, Twitter, and Facebook simultaneously, and then want to do photo editing work in Photoshop or play 3D intensive games on top of that. If all you're doing is puttering around the Web and don't expect anything strenuous from your PC aside from an emotional Angry Birds session, a dual-core processor is sufficient.

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Intel's Q3 Earnings Reported,Steady At $13.5 Billion

Suffering from a slightly disappointing Q2, mega chip-maker Intel's Q3 results are in. Intel managed to wrangle $13.5 billion in revenues with a net profit of $3 billion. While Intel's latest figures reflect a profit of about 5.1 percent sequentially, the company is still taking a dip year over year of around 19 percent. "Our third-quarter results reflected a continuing tough economic environment," said Paul Otellini, Intel's CEO. Happy to take progress in any form during a trying economy, the company's fourth quarter strategy will highly focus on the success of ultrabooks, phones and Intel-powered tablets. While its recent gains may be somewhat slim, last we checked, a win is a win.

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