The Benefits of Quad Core CPUs in Mobile Devices

This white paper looks at how quad core CPUs and Variable SMP technology will enable mobile devices to further push the performance envelope and allow application and game developers to deliver new mobile experiences, all while extending battery life for the most popular use cases.

Variable SMP – A Multi-Core CPU Architecture for Low Power and High Performance

As the performance requirements of mobile apps increase, SoC vendors are not only adopting multi-core processor architectures to deliver the increased performance, they are also doing it to keep power consumption within mobile budgets. This white paper looks at Project Kal-El’s Variable Symmetric Multiprocessing (vSMP) technology. This new technology delivers a greater level of power savings that not only minimizes power consumption during active standby states, but also delivers quad core performance benefits while keeping dynamic power consumption within thermal budgets required for mobile devices.

Bringing High-End Graphics to Handheld Devices

The size and resolution of mobile device displays have rapidly increased over the last couple of years, and the growing popularity of tablets will further push the resolution and display sizes to be close to that of laptop PCs. This white paper looks at how current and future mobile devices will need GPUs that can not only handle the increased pixel processing loads, but also remain within mobile power budgets. Higher resolutions and display sizes will drive consumer demand for applications that employ richer PC-like graphics quality employing complex lighting, shadows, anti-aliasing, higher quality textures, and more.

The Benefits of Multiple CPU Cores in Mobile Devices

This white paper talks about how mobile devices will transition to multi-core CPUs in order to further increase performance and extend battery life. Desktop CPU manufacturers transitioned to multi-core processor architectures five years ago to address the growing performance demands and the exponential growth of power consumption of single core processors. By using multiple cores, the CPUs of today can complete more work faster, and at lower power, than their single core predecessors. Mobile processors are facing the same performance and power challenges. People use their mobile device much like they use their PC, and expect a similar level of capabilities — while maintaining and increasing battery life. HD video playback, streaming video and audio, multitasking, browsing the web, 3D gaming, and 3D interfaces are stretching the capabilities of current single core mobile processors.