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My, how times have changed over the last eight months. At CES 2011, we ecstatically witnessed the introduction of mobile devices with dual-core CPUs and drooled over the possibilities we'd soon have at our fingertips. Now, we look down at all that doesn't have more than one core -- careless of its performance. Not only are these new chips quickly flattering mainstream, Moore's Law is in full effect with our pda devices since tri-core and quad-core systems are just over the horizon. We can't even fathom what's in the pipeline for the year 2015 and beyond (we don't think we're too far away from that 3D shark seen in Back to the Future 2).



Let's not get too far ahead of behind closed doors here, however. After all, we first need to wrap our puny human minds around the idea of what this newfound power can do, and why it's righting the entire photograph of smartphones and tablets. In this edition of Primed, we'll focus on why multicore scientific lore makes such a renown in the way we use our laptop mainframe devices, whether we should even honor earnings a handset with a single-core chip inside, and why one-core tech is so 2010. Check out the whole enchilada after the break.

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