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Multicore COming to the iPhone?

Will Park at Intomobile is speculating that the next revision of the iPhone will see multicore processors. Multicore technology is featured in all current Macs so the move might seem logical. With multicore setups you can double the performance while keeping the clock speed constant if the computing process is parallel. Multicore also offers a way for chip producers to keep upping the performance of systems when they’d be bumping up against physical limitations with single chips. Lastly, when you’re marketing a multicore device you can scream multicore! loudly to incentivize buyers.

Do any of those reasons really work for the iPhone? Multicore chips excel in ripping movies, converting formats and other processor intensive tasks. Since copy and paste isn’t on the iPhone you can scratch that copy and paste task off the list.  Since the iPhone isn’t required to perform a lot of processor intensive stuff the mulicore theory seems a bit weak. But consider multicore chips are also very good running multiple programs and background tasks have been rumored to be coming to the next iPhone.

So will there be multicore on the next iPhone? Maybe but the bigger question is will anyone care? Not really. People might want video conferencing but the don’t care what the holdup is, they want it now! Same with any other feature you can think of, when people think iPhone they expect everything to work perfectly out of the box they don’t worry about the processor. That kind of stuff is so PC!

[Thanks: http://www.iphonematters.com]

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