Rumor: 6.3-inch Samsung Galaxy Note 3 May Sport 8-Cores
Phablet would become device to boast world's largest phone screen.

Samsung's rumored 6.3-inch Galaxy Note 3 phablet is said to sport an eight-core processor.
According to the Korea Times, the Galaxy Note 3 will, as previously reported, feature a 6.3-inch display. Comparatively, its predecessor, the Galaxy Note 2 phablet, sports a 5.5-inch screen.
The South Korean technology titan, which recently stressed that phablets (a hybrid between smartphones and tablets) are here to stay, is also rumored to be integrating its next-generation eight-core Exynos 5 Octa processor into the device. During CES 2013, the company announced the world's first eight-core mobile processor.
Amid reports over Apple cutting its business ties with its chief competitor, Samsung is apparently pitching its processing products to smartphone manufacturers in China including Huawei and ZTE.
Should the Galaxy Note 3 prove to be in existence with the aforementioned specs, it would become both the world's most powerful smartphone and a device with the world's largest screen found on a phone. Huawei's Ascend D2 holds the former moniker (read our hands-on impressions here), while the latter title is attributed to the 6.1-inch Ascend Mate -- head on over to our hands-on impressions with the device here.
It's 4 Cortex A15 and 4 Cortex A7 cores. It will only use 4 cores at a time.
There is the big.LITTLE mode which uses either the 4 A15 or the 4 A7 cores.
Then there is a "core migration" mode. So it can use 2 A7 + 2A15 or 3 A7 + 1 A15 or any other combination. So it will manage it's energy consumption according to the processing power needs.
And finally a mode which uses all 8 cores for heavy duty tasks but I doubt that any app would need that anytime soon.
Because you can run 4 apps at the same time here.
It's 4 Cortex A15 and 4 Cortex A7 cores. It will only use 4 cores at a time.
There is the big.LITTLE mode which uses either the 4 A15 or the 4 A7 cores.
Then there is a "core migration" mode. So it can use 2 A7 + 2A15 or 3 A7 + 1 A15 or any other combination. So it will manage it's energy consumption according to the processing power needs.
And finally a mode which uses all 8 cores for heavy duty tasks but I doubt that any app would need that anytime soon.
Mine too!!
But realistically, the A15 cores seems to be a power hog, almost the similar level to a Atom Z2760 while performing much worse. I'd rather get a Atom phone if intel can iron out all the bugs and driver issues, with OS as Android or Windows 8 x86. Wishful thinking, I know.
I have a Note 1 (N7000), and I it's laggy with ICS even though I removed whole bunch of stuff. Dialer takes 2-4 seconds to show up.
6.3 is just....... a tablet.
I actually thumbed up your comment. It'd be awesome if it did. Maybe we're getting close to being able to do that.
At desktop resolutions (1080p+)? Hardly unless you call a very slow dia-projector a film projector...