[it] Sohu News March 1, news, for "Quad" industry is the transition speculation. However, market penetration will take time. Today, the industry letter Ministry in the 2013 ICT depth observed large report "released" 2013 mobile Internet White Paper "shows: 2012 quad core chip in the whole mobile intelligent terminal for ratio of less than 8%.

According to the report, currently, Samsung, nidia, Qualcomm, MTK and so on mainstream chip manufacturers have launched a quad core chip, CES this year, Intel released the the core platform Bay trail, chip manufacturing process and synchronized to upgrade, 28nm even 22nm process is adopted. Mobile chip frequency tended to 2GHz, and CPU. This trend prompted the desktop and server in the field of the widely used as possible. It is understood, Google's second chromebook laptop the exynos Orion Samsung 4412

Ministry of quad core chip penetration rate is not high main reason: quad core chip high cost, power optimization is not mature, based on multi-core architecture operating system optimization problems, and applicable in quad core driver boutique application quantity is limited, quad core chip has not been terminal manufacturer, the large-scale adoption.

What is the "Quad"?

Quad core is defined based on one of the processors of a single semiconductor has four function as the core processor. In other words, the four physical processor core integration into a nuclear. The difference between the dual and quad core is to multi task processing, quad core CPU open four procedures to than dual core CPU open four procedures must be quick, then there are many core data operation in greater advantage (for example, usually test with multi thread floating point calculation).