Multicore Multiprocessing Mega-Mobility!!!!

This blog is slowly but steadily turning into a Nokia and Symbian cult blog…  But then hey!!!  It’s Nokia!!! And its Symbian!!!

Getting ahead, ARM, one of Nokia and Symbian’s longest standing partners (A partnership of over 10 years) recently announced their Multi-core Processor chains to be released in the near future.  Called the ARM® Cortex™-A9 MP™Core, this processor is intended to provide the much needed extra juice to rocket nokia mobiles ahead of the other guys in the race.  And, not to mention, enable the user with a truly richer experience of TV, games, entertainment, 3D, music, internet and more…

Symbian is apparently beginning to rework their kernels and other allied software to enable the required multi-core support for the new Cortex series of ARM processors. 

Talking of the actual technology behind the Multi-Core thingy, it goes thus:

In traditional mobile phones, the Application Core is usually one ARM processor handling the heavy-duty data crunching.  And all these days, the core was single but continuously getting powerful.  Starting off from a paltry 65MHz to a trailblazing 369MHz in the recent days…

To take it to the next level, the Cortex series aims to achieve much higher performance by integrating multiple cores into the application processor and enable the OS to control the processors in an On Demand mode.  So, putting it, Symbian would now be able to extract power from the processor whenever it has the need to.  And this leads to heavy duty performance ondemand.  And when we talk of a multi-core CPU, we can imagine Nokia coming up with ads which show mobiles doing stuff similar to what the intel core2Duo ad shows ;)  But then yeah, talking of the actual news, Symbian says that these mobiles are due in 2010…  Pretty much the roadmap when Nokia is planning to come out with their Symbian 9.5 based devices…

 I’m waiting for 2010…  This is gonna be a hell of a device when it hits the market…  Multicore CPU, newer Communication technologies read Super3g, Wi-Max and what all and what not…, demand paging, true seamless mobility (talk to me… i’ve seen people create this!!!), and then yeah, also a phone… that can call and do sms… if sms technology is still alive!!!

I’m waiting Nokia, I’m Waiting…  Hit me!!!  The future is coming… Run!!! Competition… Run for Cover…

Vinay has a detailed description of the stuff here…

Tags: Nokia, Symbian, ARM, Cortex, Multicore, Demand+Paging, Symmetric+Multiprocessing

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