Intel is developing a 48-core processor for smartphones and tablets

When they came out with duo core phone processors I was thinking facepalm why not just skip to 8 or even 4? I suppose they need to squeeze every last cent out of the consumer.

In all seriousness and joking aside, I believe we will eventually be able to run crysis on our phones.

Have you heard of the Ubuntu on Android project, that could really use some more powerful cpu's in phones

If you remember Intel's first dual core CPU was just 2 normal CPUs glued together so putting 6 or 8 of them together would not have worked out well. Even their Core 2 Quads were just 2 dual cores on top of each other, these types of things work in stages you can't jump to 16 core without making sure that 2 cores work without blowing up.

I want a 48 core desktop or laptop before I want a 48 core phone or pad.

48 cores in a desktop/laptop allows for running lots of background apps, eg virtual machines. You could implement your own private cloud using 48 cores. Great as a development server or small business server to host an entire business. Cloud in a box.

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