Quad core on your smart phone?

Do we really need a Quad core on our smart phones and tablets? May be yes. With the next generation networks like LTE, we can see more computing intense applications and services specially the high end game and videos which can't survive on today's single core processors. Mobile virtualization can solves some of this computing hunger by emulating multi-cores and effectively sharing resources. But the chip manufacturers want to move ahead with a physical hardware solution rather than a software approach. The key take away is smart phones and tablets are the next gen PCs with more computing power.