Dual-core smartphone processors: passe. Quad-core smartphone processors: the new standard in mobile performance. Leaked pictures of the HTC Edge — purportedly the first smartphone to run on NVidia's yet-to-be announced Tegra 3 processor — surfaced on Monday. As PocketNow.com reports, the new Tegra 3 sports four 1.5GHz cores, allowing the processor to simultaneously run multiple sets of program instructions. Processor companies like Nvidia, Intel and AMD have long leveraged multi-core designs to mitigate diminishing gains in pure clock speed.
Gadget Lab, HTC Edge, World's First Quad-Core Android Phone, Revealed
