MediaTek Helio X30 chipset announced: 10nm, two more A73 cores
- Omar Mohamed
- D7k
- 10 Aug 2016
Skalapountaroi, 09 Aug 2016I have one question somewhat irrelevant to the topic!
The ... moreHi, nm is length unit, just like cm and millimeter but it is way smaller,
meter>>millimeter>>micrometer>>nanometer (nm).
and it translates the accuracy of the manufacturing of the processor.
and as you may know; as the number of transistors in a given CPU increase, it becomes more powerful, because it is capable of handling more logic processes per second.
so manufacturers aim to fit as much transistors as possible, so they decrease their physical size.
this decrease in transistor size requires high accuracy machines that can differentiate and sense very small distances/lengths.
these lengths are the nm (nanometers) you read in the specs.
so as the nm number decrease the CPU is better :)
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- Anonymous
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- 10 Aug 2016
mixa, 10 Aug 2016It's the distance between the transistors.no, its not the distance. it's the width of the conductors used in the semiconductor fabrication.
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- 10 Aug 2016
Skalapountaroi, 09 Aug 2016I have one question somewhat irrelevant to the topic! The ... moreThe size of the features (the elements that make up the structures on a chip)
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- Gunjandeep
- 7ka
- 10 Aug 2016
Seriously Guys....
Give it a rest. The thing that matters is Quality of Cores & not the Quantity. If Apple with it's 2 Twister cores is good, it's because of Integration of H/W & S/W. Mind you, It'll still be a good beast had it existed in Android Realm. Here in Android, As many would have noticed, Kyro Cores (SD820, quad) takes on Mangoose (Exonys 8890, Octa) quiet nicely. It's about optimizations. MTK is only about ARM architecture, they don't optimize it, hence the CPU's don't perform as well as they should with all those cores. Simple logic.
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- AnonD-90109
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- 10 Aug 2016
AnonD-510098, 09 Aug 201699% of buyers don't care about custom roms... Stop bashing Kirin I care about custom ROMS.
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- mixa
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- 10 Aug 2016
Skalapountaroi, 09 Aug 2016I have one question somewhat irrelevant to the topic! The ... moreIt's the distance between the transistors.
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- m5I
- 10 Aug 2016
AnonD-282770, 10 Aug 2016I think more than custom rom, with mediatek chipset oem sho... moreFault NOT daily
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- AnonD-510098
- m5I
- 10 Aug 2016
AnonD-282770, 10 Aug 2016I think more than custom rom, with mediatek chipset oem sho... moreThat's the manufacturers and carriers daily
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- 10 Aug 2016
AnonD-510098, 09 Aug 201699% of buyers don't care about custom roms... Stop bashing Kirin I think more than custom rom, with mediatek chipset oem should be able to release newer Android version whenever they are available, right now the major issue is mediatek chipset smartphones are stuck with old version of Android and with no further updates.
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- 10 Aug 2016
Skalapountaroi, 09 Aug 2016I have one question somewhat irrelevant to the topic!
The ... moreThe semiconductor manufacturing node measured in nanometers (a billionth of a meter or a millionth of a millimeter) represents the size of the transistors that make up all the logic gates and circuits in an integrated circuit (aka "chip"). The smaller these elements the more you can fit an a set amount of space and the less power they use (in crude theory). Modern desktop CPUs are made up of somewhere around a billion 14nm transistors (which means more functions can be implemented in hardware with additional circuits, like onboard graphics and hardware media decoders which can significantly speed up certain tasks). So if MediaTek can produce chips with 10nm transistors (which I don't think has been done on a mass production product yet) you could hope for a high performing, low power processor (but right now they're probably looking mainly for hype).
Also it's hard to say in which way the transistors are actually measured as there are different kinds of transistors used and I think it happened before that instead of length the width was advertised or something weird like that, so maybe don't get too excited...
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- 10 Aug 2016
Skalapountaroi, 09 Aug 2016I have one question somewhat irrelevant to the topic! The ... moreask google this- 'semiconductor device fabrication'
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- Mirkran
- 8xB
- 09 Aug 2016
And then Qualcomm and Samsung will unveil their new flasghips, and they will be better. MediaTek will launch a better chispet, and Qualcomm and Samsung will do it too, and so on. This cycle will never end.
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- Anonymous
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- 09 Aug 2016
AnonD-510098, 09 Aug 201699% of buyers don't care about custom roms... Stop bashing Kirin and to don't care about mathematics, I'm 100% sure about that.
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- Skalapountaroi
- i84
- 09 Aug 2016
I have one question somewhat irrelevant to the topic!
The nano miters that the CPUs are based on,what they actually measure??
I first thought that it is the size of the core but when I asked my physics teacher,not my IT teacher,he said that is the distance between the cores,transistors etc.
What is the correct answer? :/
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- Anonymous
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- 09 Aug 2016
zodiacfml, 09 Aug 2016I don't know what to do with this number of cores. Even ... moreAll cores aren't made to be use at once. Please read and comprehend.
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beegeter, 09 Aug 2016no matter how powerful they are, they are all suk because t... more99% of buyers don't care about custom roms... Stop bashing Kirin
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- 09 Aug 2016
Anonymous, 09 Aug 2016Too many cores!! 8 should be the max.. Please have mercy on... moreits not like all cores operating at the same time -.-
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- 09 Aug 2016
Anonymous, 09 Aug 2016Why not using Mali-G71 GPU instead of PowerVR 7XT quad-core GPU because iphone use powervr
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- zodiacfml
- 3YH
- 09 Aug 2016
I don't know what to do with this number of cores.
Even on a desktop PC, it is rare to use more than four cores.
I mean, it is quite overkill or cost inefficient to have multiple CPUs to serve various/three types of loads.
I feel that a high speed dual core plus a low speed dual core is best right now.
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- AnonD-549785
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- 09 Aug 2016
I like me some overkill