We can easily foresee that the future holds mobile solutions that fit into the palm of our hands. They very likely will be built around multi-core processors. I spoke of this in a recent multi-core blog entitled ""
The issues of high performance, small size, low power consumption, smart-battery support, advanced graphics capabilities, ruggedness are all well on their way to being fully addressed by architectures that will pick up from the Intel® Atom(TM) processor and solutions that will be built around them (example: http://us.kontron.com/products/computeronmodules/com+express/nanoetxexpress/ http://us.kontron.com/products/computeronmodules/com+express/nanoetxexpress/" >nanoETXexpress COM Express compatible http://us.kontron.com/products/computeronmodules/ http://us.kontron.com/products/computeronmodules/" >computer-on-modules).
What other key design challenges are to be faced as multi-core processors are brought into the ever-shrinking mobile application space?
Christine Van De Graaf - Product Marketing Manager, Embedded Modules Division
