By Kevin Kwang, ZDNet Asia
The introduction of multicore processors for mobile devices such as tablets and smartphones might suggest better compute power and user experience but the hardware enhancements might be rendered meaningless if developers do not know how to develop apps that tap the power boost.

According to Francois Piednoel, senior performance analyst at Intel, developers need to understand that when creating apps for dual-core tablets and smartphones, they would have limited memory bandwidth to play with. Cell phones, for example, usually have LPDDR (low power double data rate) 1 or LPDDR 2 bandwidths which range between 1.6GB per second and 3GB per second. This means software developers will have much less bandwidth than on conventional CPUs, he noted.

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