The chip maker MediaTek pioneered the concept of with the launch of the Helio X20 processor. Lately, the company added another deca-core chipset to the lineup with the introduction of the Helio X30.

The earlier mobile phones were basically cousins of the traditional landline phones but the smartphones that are in use nowadays are very close in functionality to cameras and computers. These add-ons ...

A few weeks ago I did some research about how Android apps take advantage of multi-core processors. Specifically, I looked to debunk the myth that Android apps only use one CPU core. My findings ...

The first smartphones with dual-core processors reached the market in 2010. Before that smartphones used single-core processors maxing out at around 1.4GHz. Since then the number of cores has grown ...