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Mobile SoCs still increase core count but it doesn’t need to increase power consumption. E.g. Qualcomm SDM845 has 8 cores in total, 4 faster ones that are only
by Const-me 9y ago
Mobile SoCs still increase core count but it doesn’t need to increase power consumption.
E.g. Qualcomm SDM845 has 8 cores in total, 4 faster ones that are only used rarely, and 4 power efficient ones.
Also they offload increasing amount of work from less power efficient general-purpose CPUs to other on-chip hardware, DSPs (for many years), and now GPUs (marketing folks call them neural engines or AI chips).