If a few days ago it was known that throughout this year 2014 different mobile phone manufacturers will launch the first smartphones with eight-core processors, now we can add the Chinese company ZTE to this list of manufacturers. It turns out that ZTE has announced that it is currently developing its own eight-core processor primarily for mobile telephony. Apparently said processor is already well advanced in its development since ZTE has in mind to take advantage of the next MWC (Mobile World Congress) to present its latest production in society. Let us remember that the Mobile World Congressis a technology event that is held this year in Barcelona between February 24 and 27.
What companies are trying to achieve with eight-core processors is to run all eight processor cores at the same time. As of today, this challenge has not yet been met, and the most that can be found within this technology are eight-core processors with four cores working at the same time.
Besides ZTE, the companies currently developing eight-core processors for mobile phones are LG, Huawei, and probably HTC. In fact, Huawei has already presented its first smartphone with an eight-core processor under the name Huawei Honor 3X. Said terminal includes a display 5.5 inches with 720 x 1280 pixels resolution, plus two gigabytes of memory RAM and a camera 13 megapixels. The phone can currently be reserved in China for about 200 euros, which is a very interesting price seeing the specifications of the terminal.
LG, for its part, will probably launch a phone with an eight-core processor this year. In principle, it is expected that the one chosen for this novelty will be the LG G3, since it is the highest-end mobile that the company could launch throughout this year 2014. In addition to this, some rumors also suggest that HTC could also dare with these processors by launching an HTC One octa-core Edition.
And what does it mean that companies are focusing on developing eight-core processors? Neither more nor less is it a new advance in processor technology that, in short, would increase the performance of smartphones. For now it is a technology that is still very little worked, so we will have to wait at least until next year 2015 to start seeing phones with a good integrated eight-core processor.
For now, the main problems these processors are exposed to are overheating and excessive battery consumption. That is why many critical voices point out that currently users have more than enough with Qualcomm processors (quad-core processors), although obviously mobile telephony is a technology that is constantly evolving and large companies they are always looking to introduce novelties in their products.
