Is the performance of mobile phone excessive? Nearly half of the votes show that it will still be promoted. What is the use of high performance?

Andy Beer's Law: Andy gives, Bill takes.

"Andy" literally refers to andy grove, the former CEO of Intel, followed by all hardware vendors, while "Bill" literally refers to Bill Gates of Microsoft, followed by all software vendors. This law means that no matter how hardware manufacturers improve the performance of hardware, software companies can develop software that consumes more resources, which offsets the effect of improving hardware performance and puts forward higher performance requirements for hardware.

In fact, according to Moore's Law, the performance of mobile phone processors and other devices can be doubled every 18 months. According to this rule, it should be no problem that the performance of the current mobile phone reaches dozens of times that of the mobile phone 10 years ago, but do we feel that the performance has improved dozens of times? Obviously, we didn't. Why? Isn't Andy Beer's law at work? The most intuitive feeling is that mobile apps are becoming more and more bloated, so from the perspective of the underlying logic of the industry, where will there be overcapacity?

In fact, if we subdivide the performance of mobile phones, we will also find that there is no excess performance. Is there any single-core performance surplus in CPU? Obviously does not exist. If the single-core performance is excessive, then multi-core is not needed. Is there multi-core performance surplus in CPU? This place can barely be counted as one, because at present, the utilization of multi-core in the system is not so strong, and there are many points lost, not to mention the GPU part, which has great development potential, so from an absolute level, the performance of mobile phones is not excessive.

However, if we narrow the scope of time and demand, we can say that some mobile phones now have excessive performance, because in daily use, those thousand yuan mobile phones now can provide a good experience, not to mention the performance of mobile phones equipped with high-end flagship chips. Therefore, in some scenarios, it seems that there is nothing wrong with saying that the performance of high-end flagship chips is excessive, and although the current flagship chips are doing well, they are still not doing enough in terms of energy consumption and heat generation. This leads to users' dissatisfaction, so the user's appeal for excess performance contains this dissatisfaction. Users hope that manufacturers should not only focus on running points, but also improve energy consumption performance.

So in a broad sense, there is no surplus at all, but if we narrow the scope of time and group, we can say that there is surplus. As for the use of high performance, don't you compare a Snapdragon 625 mobile phone with a Snapdragon 870 mobile phone?

In fact, the current mobile phone has gone a bit too far in performance, focusing on operational performance and not paying much attention to energy consumption. Therefore, Snapdragon 888, a kind of fire dragon, makes some mobile phones miserable. Everyone is clamoring for excess, hoping that chip manufacturers can take into account energy consumption in the future, make a better energy consumption ratio, and maintain high-performance output for a long time to meet everyone's performance requirements.