I know this phone buff, who will struggle to go through his iphone (could be any phone you know, but he’s got that, and he loves it like an oversized kid!) to check somewebsites, when he’s sitting in front of a PC! amazing idiocy! and then he’s enamoured at the speed of the browser and stuff. the shmuck’s sitting right in front of a large 23 inch monitor powered by a pretty powerful hulk of a PC, and yet… :P

I am stumped. I guess, all this will remain for a few years, until the idiots get some syndrome like “carpal tunnel” lols. that’s the sad reality!

From 40nm to 28nm process, the decrease in die size factor is:

(28/40)^2*100 %

Yes, divide 28 by 40, square the result, and multiply by 100 to get %. That’s the percentage of 40nm die on 28nm.

Not accurate upto the last mm, but by far, a very close range technique.

AND LESSER INSTRUCTIONS PER CYCLE, will drastically cut down performance. And anyways these chips have very few instructions per cycle capability + a not fully out of order architecture.

Also, nVidia demonstrated that Kal- something is faster than Core2Duo, which is a LIE

Still, make no mistake in assuming that a quad core chip could consume less power. More chips mean more transistors. If a developer writes a game that pushes all four Kal-El cores to their maximum then your phone or tablet will consume a lot more power than ever before.

To really get the power problem under control we need even smaller manufacturing die sizes. Right now it will be 80mm^2, take it down to just 60mm^2 and the power savings could be as high as 25%!

Still, make no mistake in assuming that a quad core chip could consume less power. More chips mean more transistors. If a developer writes a game that pushes all four Kal-El cores to their maximum then your phone or tablet will consume a lot more power than ever before.

To really get the power problem under control we need even smaller manufacturing die sizes. Right now it will be 80mm^2, take it down to just 60mm^2 and the power savings could be as high as 25%!

They reply to mails even when they have taken a holiday with family.

They can’t stop playing games on the phone, even when they game so much at home on their consoles or PC.

They don’t take a minute off, to relax and think of breathing, yes thinking of breathing. When did u do it last time huh? It’s always the smartphone in one hard, and the left side of your brain thinking what next to do, I’m bored cuz I havn’t done anything for the last 10 seconds.

They reply to mails even when they have taken a holiday with family.

They can’t stop playing games on the phone, even when they game so much at home on their consoles or PC.

They don’t take a minute off, to relax and think of breathing, yes thinking of breathing. When did u do it last time huh? It’s always the smartphone in one hard, and the left side of your brain thinking what next to do, I’m bored cuz I havn’t done anything for the last 10 seconds.

They reply to mails even when they have taken a holiday with family.

They can’t stop playing games on the phone, even when they game so much at home on their consoles or PC.

They don’t take a minute off, to relax and think of breathing, yes thinking of breathing. When did u do it last time huh? It’s always the smartphone in one hard, and the left side of your brain thinking what next to do, I’m bored cuz I havn’t done anything for the last 10 seconds.

2.5x single processor price, Never
2x single processor price, No
1.5x single processor price, maybe
1.25x single processor price, definitely

for the Indian market, which may resemble many emerging markets.

Depending on the implementation, multiprocessors allow the phone to use less power for running simpler apps, by running on just one core. Only some apps (or multitasking) will require both cores.
As a result, the phone will draw less from the battery on one core (or technically “half a processor”).

I don’t recall which, but one of the first dual-core Android phones even has one slower, miserly processor and one faster turbocharged processor that it calls into play only when the slow processor is pegged. Fewer cycles-per-second (Mhz) means less power used, so the phone prioritizes the slower processor first.

That’s smart, since battery technology isn’t growing as fast (and can’t grow as fast) as processor tech.