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Source: Microsoft

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RE: Right
By SilentSin on 6/20/2012 3:47:23 PM , Rating: 2
It actually has up to 64-core support if someone were going to make such a thing. It's using MS's NT kernel (should be nearly the same as on Windows 8 RT if not the exact same). That's probably more of a consideration for tablets using the kernel than phones but it's there. The initial batch of devices will probably be dual core S4 phones, Qualcomm was plastered on quite a few slides from the announcement.

RE: Right
By geddarkstorm on 6/20/2012 4:00:44 PM , Rating: 2
Well, now we are getting conflicting information. We're told at release WP8 cannot support quad cores, and can only do dual cores, and that it will take an update (like WP7's 7.5 update which brought much needed advancements) to unlock quad core support.

So, why is this, if it can theoretically support up to 64 cores out of the box? MS is just limiting its hardware possibilities for no gain, it seems.

Something tells me the WP8 kernel isn't identical to the Windows 8 RT kernel; which I think it should have been. No reason not to just stick RT straight on a phone. Nothing prevents that, so why didn't MS do that?

This all seems like a case of the right hand not talking to the left hand.

RE: Right
By SilentSin on 6/20/2012 4:40:19 PM , Rating: 2
It does seem like WinRT (or WART if you please) is still half baked. Just look for the videos of all the Surface freezes at the launch event or videos of the WART launch tablets from Computex. That happened on a variety of platforms, which brings up your point.

MS limited phones severely with WP7 but it was more for platform control than anything and all WP7 devices I've used seemed very stable. I think WP8 and WART will have some serious teething problems since this will be the first dive into vast array of ARM SoCs out there. I hope it's nothing worse than what Google went through with the first few iterations of Android tho.

If we are to believe the presentation than coding for WP8 is the same as WART, you just have to change a build target or something which indicates the kernel is very closely related. I guess we will have to wait and see if that is really true once the SDK is in the wild.

