[sobeniceguy2]

Great article thanks for sharing!

[ellersbee]

I'm waiting for you iPhone 7 😀

[Ambi_Valence]

I'm waiting for you iPhone 7 😀

I’m waiting for you 2017 MacBook Pro. TC did say they were desktop class after all?

[politicalslug]

My iPad Air 2 has three cores, and it kicks the crap out of my 6 Plus. If anything, I can see Apple upgrading to a triple core A10 for the iPhone 7, but keeping six cores busy on a mobile device won't do anything positive for battery life. This rumor makes no sense at all.

[Nuff Said]

Man Apple could make the perfect product if they wanted to but they choose not to. I can understand it as it brings in more revenue for them but it's frustrating for the consumer.

[ThuD Muffin]

All these really powerful new chips make me think apple is looking to drop Intel for their lower tier Macs.

[Silverado1987]

Man Apple could make the perfect product if they wanted to but they choose not to. I can understand it as it brings in more revenue for them but it's frustrating for the consumer.

The regular 70% of the consumers that don't know and don't care. We get frustrated. But I know what you mean

[Colby21]

My iPad Air 2 has three cores, and it kicks the crap out of my 6 Plus. If anything, I can see Apple upgrading to a triple core A10 for the iPhone 7, but keeping six cores busy on a mobile device won't do anything positive for battery life. This rumor makes no sense at all.

Having more cores allows you to run them in tandem, essentially reducing heat, which reduces power needed to cool that heat. That is why the more cores these phones are getting, the better battery life we are getting as well. You don't automatically get all 4 cores running at once. Usually one will run, then perhaps 2 for power demand tasks. Rarely if ever do all cores run. It's the reason our brains only function at 10% inefficiency. If we maxed out our brain function at a single moment in time, we would burn up all fat storage, overheat, and probably have encephalopathy.

source: I work for Qualcomm in SD.

[glacius7]

same here i'm wait iPhone 7

[politicalslug]

Having more cores allows you to run them in tandem, essentially reducing heat, which reduces power needed to cool that heat. That is why the more cores these phones are getting, the better battery life we are getting as well. You don't automatically get all 4 cores running at once. Usually one will run, then perhaps 2 for power demand tasks. Rarely if ever do all cores run. It's the reason our brains only function at 10% inefficiency. If we maxed out our brain function at a single moment in time, we would burn up all fat storage, overheat, and probably have encephalopathy.

source: I work for Qualcomm in SD.

I'm not really sure where to start. There are numerous methods to manage power in a multi-core processor, but Qualcomm and Samsung have chose to implement a BIG.little approach where there are actually two quad core CPUs running either separately or in tandom. My understanding is that all cores of a given CPU will run simultaneously, with speed and voltage the only means of modifying the power requirement. As such there is no way with that hardware to shut down an individual core, as you claim. It's that very reason why they chose to go the BIG.little route, since the faster CPU is too power hungry. Apple could potentially design the A10 to allow a core to completely disable itself when needed, but that isn't implemented in any mobile hardware (except Intel's ATOM, I presume) at this time. Finally, that idea about only 10% of our brain running at once doesn't mean anything. Its an urban myth perpetuated by science fiction. And you won't give yourself encephalopathy by thinking too hard, or whatever you were saying. That's just nonsense. So, what exactly do you do in your capacity as a Qualcomm employee? Just curious.