MediaTek the company which has been in light for the past couple of years for making ultra-affordable processor chips for many Chinese smartphone manufacturers, from Quad Core to Octa and power efficient Hexacore processor. The semiconductor company has expanded its lineup from the past 18 months adding 64 bit architecture with multiple core structure.
The Company first came in limelight for powering many Indian Smartphone manufacturers with its low-cost affordable processors, it can be dated back to Micromax Canvas series which were all powered by MediaTek and after that this company has never looked back on its journey to the one of the biggest markets- US and UK.
MediaTek has now announced its plans to unveil Helio X20- Company’s first 10 Core processor running multiple cores of Cortex-A72, it is an upgraded version to A57. This promises faster cooling, speed and takes up less space as than the older A57. The final design of cores is still not known as it can either be full-fledged 10 cores running at the same time- which is highly unlikely keeping battery in perspective or it can be based on ARM big.LITTLE processor standards as a combination of power efficient cores running at lower clock speed and performance cores running at max frequency but what will be the configuration of them be, how much for the power effect and how much for the performance cores? That is the question, we want answer to.
I just can’t figure out, majority of applications are not coded to use more than 2 cores, if they can’t possible utilize the power- do we need more cores just to benchmark?
Also there are reports that this processor has the capability to be right at the very top of the Antutu Leaderboard with scores coming in at 70,000. HTC M9+ having the same Octa Core Variant of the processor has gained more than 50,000 score on Antutu, so its highly likely that 2 more cores will help the processor in better computing and multi-core operations.
Is this the future of mobile computing? Does adding 2 more cores would marginally affect the performance? What do you think? Let us know in the comment box below. Until then keep Androtrending!
