Smartphone racing upgrade dual-core processor

The savvy Jobs did not mention any information about the iPhone 5 at the iPad 2 press conference, but Apple fans around the world have long memorized the features of their products. The dual-core processing that many PC makers are proud of. The device is now becoming the benchmark for dividing the new pattern of smartphones.

Editor's note / 2011, "Dual Core" has become the hottest keyword in the field of smartphone hardware. With the release of LG Optimus 2X, the first dual-core chip mobile phone from NVIDIA Tegra 2 at the CES Consumer Electronics Show in January 2011, the Samsung Exynos 4210 and Texas Instruments OMAP4430 dual-core processors will be available at the February MWC Mobile World Congress. Mobile phone debut, and Qualcomm dual-core chip product plan announced, dual-core smartphones become the focus of more and more players.

Dual-core rapid, menacing.

The savvy Jobs did not mention any information about the iPhone 5 at the iPad 2 press conference, but Apple fans around the world have long memorized the features of their products. The dual-core processing that many PC makers are proud of. The device is now becoming the benchmark for dividing the new pattern of smartphones.

From the time to market, iPhone 5 is not a leader. As the world’s first dual-core smartphone, the LG Optimus Optimus 2X with the NVIDIA Tegra2 dual-core processor was launched in China on March 29th. Prior to this, the LG Optimus Optimus 2X had already begun sales in South Korea and Europe. The listing of the LG Optimus Optimus 2X marks the official entry of smartphones into the dual-core era.

At the Consumer Electronics Show in January 2011 and the World Mobile Communications Conference in February, globally renowned mobile terminal manufacturers including Samsung, Sony Ericsson, HTC, and Motorola all announced the market layout of their future dual-core mobile phones.

It now appears that smart phones have already entered the speed to win, from the 2010 1GHz clock chip to the 2011 dual-core era.

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After the smart phone experienced a battle of terminal functions and an operating system, the battle of speed came to an end. The "three battles" were called in the industry three stages of evolution of smart phones. LG Electronics, the world’s top three mobile communication terminal manufacturer, took the lead in responding to this battle.

A Canadian software company has tested that Google's Android phone is more than twice as fast as Apple's iPhone. Because of this, consumers who originally intended to buy Apple mobile phones are hesitant.

Industry insiders expect that Apple may announce the official launch of the iPhone 5 at the WWDC2011 conference in San Francisco on June 6 this year. The iPhone 5 will also use dual-core processors, and all manufacturers will list the dual-core phones as the most important in 2011. For the listed products, it is clear that the dual-core battle will reach the boiling point in the summer of 2011.

Data shows that smartphone shipments this year will increase by nearly 40% to 413 million. Of the handsets that LG launched in 2011, 40% are smart phones, including 3D versions.

HTC will launch the dual-core mobile phone pyramid (Pyramid) and the Motorola dual-core smart phone Olympus are also in production.

Market research firm Gartner expects that the rapid development of multimedia services will require increasingly higher hardware requirements for smart phones, such as large data storage media, large-area high-resolution touch screens, and large-capacity batteries, among which the most important The hardware is the CPU.

The biggest competition point of smart phones is the speed of the Internet, and CPU is the key point to determine its speed. Compared with single-core phones, dual-core phones will have significant improvements in data processing speed, multitasking capabilities, instant touch and screen display.

According to Li Changhe, president of LG Electronics Greater China Mobile Communications Division, the sales price of the LG Optimus 2X in China is around RMB 5,000. This dual-core, 4.0-inch IPS display handset is positioned in terms of price positioning. The first dual-core mobile phone on the market, so there is no corresponding reference, but compared with the single-core mobile phone market prices have gradually stabilized, this pricing is quite competitive.

"Only looking at Apple's words, iPad2 price is consistent with the iPad, so the dual-core iPhone5's price will not be much higher than the iPhone4, will still be in the 5000 yuan to 6,000 yuan or so." Said CCID Consulting analyst Liu Yuan.

Apple successfully broke through, and Nokia's decline has made innovation once again the focus of smart phone manufacturers.

It now appears that the trend of smartphone terminal manufacturers betting on dual-core mobile phones has become inevitable. Jong-seok Park, president and CEO of LG Electronics Mobile Communications Division, said: “We have concentrated all resources to provide the widest range of smart device choices for various types of customers. This will be a crucial year for LG.”

Rational layout

If a smart phone has achieved a business model such as Apple's, then dual-core smart phones will undoubtedly drive more related industries. In addition to the related hardware processors, including the system platform, operating platform and software industry will be an excellent opportunity to once again break through.

It is understood that before the earthquake in Japan, Renesas Semiconductor, which produced a new generation of high-speed communication semiconductors for smart phones, and Toshiba and Sharp, which provided LCD screens for smartphones, had already begun to lay out the smart phone accessories market.

In addition, the smart phone system platform also has the "speed" trend. Paul Otellini, president and chief executive officer of Intel, said that in the first half of 2011, Intel will launch dozens of tablet devices based on the Moorestown platform. This platform and another Intel platform, Medifield, may become future smartphones. System platform. It is understood that the performance of the graphics core chip in the Medifield platform is 4 times higher than that of the PowerVR SGX535.

The software that is continuously upgraded and optimized in operating systems such as Android, Window7, and Apple iOS is also used to verify the configuration of the mobile terminal. It is understood that NVIDIA Optimus 2X is loaded with NVIDIA's famous "game know" software.

Liu Yuan believes that the release of each new generation of smart phones and application software in the market is echoed, although the software on the operating system is the biggest selling point of the mobile phone, but if the phone hardware configuration can not keep up, will more clearly highlight its ills .

Wang Yang, of the Institute of Photovoltaic Industry, China Electronics Information Industry Development Institute, believes that when a smart phone is developed to be similar to a PC and its performance is determined by general-purpose processor, memory, screen, and other hardware parameters, consumers often compare the performance price ratio as An important inspection indicator.

It is understood that the iPad2, which had a strong price in the electronics market before, also showed a stagnant momentum. Its price was nearly 2,000 yuan less than when it arrived. Industry analysis is due to the fact that dual-core mobile phones are functionally similar to tablet computers. It can be seen that although the pricing of the dual-core mobile phone is about 5,000 yuan rational, the price fluctuations have become the norm in the electronic market. The focus of the dual-core mobile phone should be on functional development and performance enhancement.

At the same time, mobile phone manufacturers must pay special attention to the layout of product lines at different levels. After all, the audience in the high-end market is too small and can be branded. The market share and performance must still be achieved through the low-end market.