According to a detailed research by In-Stat, single-core processors will become obsolete by 2013 even in handheld computing devices such as smartphones, CE (consumer electronics) devices and MIDs. With notebooks being, currently, the only mobile devices based on multi-core processors (with a few exceptions), multi-core chips, regardless of origin or manufacturer, are set to achieve widespread adoption in all mobile configurations by 2013.
Multi-core processors are currently used in high-end computing configurations. Dual-core netbooks have already begun to emerge, with examples being the ASUS Eee PC 1201N and the upcoming ASUS Eee PC 1201T. With the advent of multi-core netbooks already upon us, ultra-mobile personal computers (UMPCs), MIDs (multimedia Internet devices) and consumer electronics devices (CE) will likely follow suite.
The research is titled “Mobile Processor Review: The Battle for the Next Generation Consumer Devices” and covers the worldwide markets of merchant CPUs, application processors and baseband processors. The expected compound annual growth rate (CAGR) is of 22.3% for merchant processors, with 775 million units expected to sell by 2013.
