Elephone P9000 - world’s first public 10-core smartphone

More cores? More cores. With the rise of oddly branded Chinese multi-cored quad and octa-cored phones on the market, it was only a matter of time before they upped the bar once more for the ever popular mobile ARM-based CPU's. The "Elephone P9000" will be the first of its kind to introduce the MediaTek Helio X20 line of deca-cored ARM based processors very soon this year. While it's great to see more efficient multi cored CPU's hitting the mobile market, the real question remains – is it a worthy upgrade from 4 or even 8 cored phones?

After a bit of research, the answer is quite surprising. Let's take a look at the Helio X20 CPU itself. The 2 out of the 10 cores will feature the faster ARM Cortex A72's at a speed of 2.5 GHz, which is geared towards a big performance boost. The other 8 cores are divided in half by the ARM Cortex A53, which in this case are split with 4 cores running at 2.0 Ghz and the other 4 running at a lower 1.4 GHz. One would think that more cores would be equal to more power – this is not the case. The idea of this CPU, unlike a power hungry desktop multicore processors, would be designed around power efficiency. In this case, when the bigger cores are not in use, the CPU switches to the lower clocked cores which, in turn, save more power while giving it better all-round performance while saving more battery life than current multi cored phones.

The goal in mind for the Elephone P9000 and the MediaTek Helio X20 SoC itself is to distribute power and energy consumption in a much more balanced way than any of its predecessors. While the CPU has a moderate performance boost compared to a typical ARM 8 core, the serial (or multitasking performance) use would greatly increase while saving battery power by dispersing different operations to different cores in a more organized fashion when required. That being said, the CPU's features by themselves are actually quite practical and by no means a gimmick.

The Elephone P9000, along with its MT6797 deca-cored processor, will be expected to arrive with equally nice, high-end specifications. It features a Full HD 5.5 inch screen @ 1080p, 4GB LPDDR3 RAM, 20.7 MP cam on front with 8MP rear cam, 32GB internal Storage, Dual-SIM slots with 4G compatibility, a micro SD port, 3100mAH battery, and the Android 5.1 (Lollipop) Operating System. It also features a Mali-T880 generation GPU clocked @ 850MHz, Category 6 LTE data transfer speeds, and the ability to manage single or dual image sensors ranging up to 34MP.

As of now, the release date is currently set for October 20th of this year to be available to order in China along with the price tag originally set for set for $500 USD. The phone itself has been spotted around the web potentially breaking street date for around $330.00.

For more info on phone or if you want to pick on up a P9000 when released, check out their official site at http://www.elephone.hk/

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