In the past two years, mobile phones have entered the era from single core to multi-core. The number of cores has become one of the important factors for consumers to purchase mobile phones. Manufacturers' gimmicks and consumers' pursuit have created the nuclear competition in the mobile phone industry. There are still many enthusiasts like Xiaomi mobile phones, which are typical of multi-core mobile phones. The more cores you have, the faster you can run. But can you really increase cores without limit to reflect the performance advantage?
Recently, however, some manufacturers have launched a single core high frequency chip as a selling point. For example, this Motorola MT788 is equipped with Intel's single core Z2480 chip, with the main frequency up to 2GHz. According to the score chart sent by Motorola China Product Manager @ Si Xuanjun on Weibo, the performance of single core 2GHz is no less than that of some multi-core processors in the market.
In addition, an article of Sina Technology entitled "Exclusive Interview with Bai Yongxiang, CEO of Meizu: What kind of company is Meizu?" mentioned that "Meizu's next stop: gambling users do not spell configuration. When other domestic mobile phone manufacturers compete for configuration, price and marketing, Meizu is like a hermit who stands aloof from the rest of the world. Except for the annual release of new products, they are all immersed in doing what they think is right in their own way. “
It should be said that both WP8 and Apple seem to be "backward" in CPU cores. However, the user's actual control experience is not absolutely related to the number of cores. First, let's take a look at "how important is multi-core to experience?"? In terms of hardware, architecture characteristics and manufacturing process are the decisive indicators; In terms of experience, most dual core phones are not significantly different from quad core phones in terms of smoothness, and even the performance of Apple A5 chip can lead some quad core machines. Multi core does not determine the quality of the processor, let alone the use experience.
Although four core mobile phones have become popular, the number of cores does not fully represent high performance. Software developers said that at present, most applications do not need four cores, and simple multi-core will not have significant performance improvement. Sun Changxu, an analyst in the communications industry, said: "CPU performance is not equal to the number of cores. The architecture of cores is different from that of cores. Consumers should not judge the price by the number of cores, but by the comprehensive configuration.".
MediaTek is also following the multi-core. After the fast track of the four cores, MediaTek quickly released the eight core plan, but the mobile phones based on the four core processors of MediaTek have just entered the market. Although Qualcomm has launched the quad core A7 Snapdragon processor, such behavior is more like a strategy to follow, because the quad core A7 is listed by Qualcomm as an entry-level smartphone chip, while in the high-end field, Qualcomm still focuses on dual core S4. At present, Nokia has just released the Lumia 920 with this dual core processor. SY Choudury, director of product management of Qualcomm, once said that at present, there is absolutely no smartphone program that can play the full performance of the quad core processor.
High performance also has the behavior of high battery consumption, and multi-core will inevitably increase power consumption. At present, the nuclear war of mobile phones needs to be cooled down, and the "nuclear race" of mobile phones should return to experience.
