If you think that 8-core processors are enough for smartphone manufacturers Android in the idea of offering good performance for your own products, well I can tell you that you are badly deceived because in 2015 the first processors for smartphones will be launched that have no less than 10 built-in cores. MediaTek is the company that intends to launch these embedded processors in a named chip Helio X20, and according to those who attended his press conference, the increase in performance brought by these processors in synthetic tests would be close to 50% compared to the performance of the current Qualcomm octa-core chips.
MediaTek is a company mainly known for providing chips for cheap smartphones launched in Asia, and in 2013 it launched the first true octa-core processor for mobile terminals, 2015 will also bring the first 10-core processor from them, although not quite I understand why something like this would be needed for mobile terminals. Considering that we stupidly have 8-core processors in smartphones and they are not extraordinarily performing compared to 2-core ones, the launch of 10-core processors is nothing more than a new way to silly specification fanatics.
If MediaTek will launch these processors in 2015, then Samsung or Qualcomm will follow and that's because in Asia there are a lot of specification fanatics, and if your name is not Apple and you don't have processors with as many cores as possible, you risk losing sales in the future competitors with inferior products, but better theoretical specifications. Having said that, if things will evolve at this rate, then by 2020 we will have processors with 20 cores implemented in smartphones, while PCs will remain with the banal dual/quad-core processors.
