Soleron said:
It's a nice idea but don't expect anything because software and the OS isn't written to take advantage of it. AMD had to disable individual core clocking and power states on one of their CPUs shortly after release because Windows screwed it over. |
The power management features with the groups of 4-cores isn't managed by the OS. The new BIG.little ARM architeture manages it at processor level, without any need to solve it at OS level, actually the OS will only see 4 cores all the time. When talking about multi-core support, it is handled by the Linux kernel on Android, that have a amazing and complete support for multiple cores processors and can manage much more than 8 cores. Actually, Android can handle multiple cores with ease thanks to that. As any app uses a new instance of the Java virtual machine (Dalvik), it's pretty easy for the OS to distribute instances to different cores, so Android is heavily optimized for multi-core processing.
