It will take time for quad-core chips to become mainstream

What does a quad-core chip mean? Quad-core refers to four processor cores with the same functionality on one processor based on a single semiconductor. In other words, four physical processor cores are integrated into one core. The difference between quad-core and dual-core is that for multi-tasking, four-core CPUs open four programs faster than dual-core CPUs, and that is multi-core has greater advantages in large-data operations.

From the perspective of chip makers, currently there are 27 mobile phone chip manufacturers worldwide, and only one-third of the "four-core" chips are launched. From the upstream perspective, this market has not yet heated up. In this regard, the "four-core" chip is still in slow development. In the next 1-2 years, "dual-core" and "quadonic" will jointly dominate the market.

For the "four-core" concept, manufacturers usually only make figures on the numbers and mislead consumers. However, in reality, quad-core chips have high costs, power optimization is not mature, and operating systems based on multi-core architectures have problems in optimization. Therefore, their popularity among chip manufacturers is not very high, which is why 27 chip manufacturers worldwide Only one third is introduced. Now the "four-core" chip and the chip frequency, system software and application software development will meet the demand, the trend of multi-core chip will gradually slow down.

At the just-concluded MWC 2013, mobile phone manufacturers have launched their quad-core mobile phones, mostly with high performance and beautiful appearance, but they still do not promote the development of the quad-core. The reason why the development trend will gradually slow down, the most important reason is due to the quad-core chip has just been listed, but the shipment has not yet erupted mainly due to lack of supply and the upstream supply and multi-core architecture operating system optimization issues and fine applications for quad-core drivers The number is limited.

Inadequate production and immature technology are the major bottleneck of quad-core chips. Intelligent terminal manufacturers are most worried about them. The number of chips that can be produced is limited, and small manufacturers do not pay much attention. This also leads to a very simple form of mobile smart terminals. It may still take some time for the advent of the quad-core era, but the trend of multi-core multi-core of intelligent terminals will not change.