The world's first 10-core smartphone is nearly here

Qualcomm might hold the record for the most powerful, tech-filled processor in the world with its upcoming Snapdragon 835 - but it only has 8 processing cores.

Not that it matters, but it's a great technological achievement to have more CPU cores in a system-on-chip (SoC), with Chinese smartphone maker Vernee teasing during CES 2017 last month tht they would have the first MediaTek Helio X30-powered smartphone that would be released in February.

Well, it's February now - and we're learning more information on the new smartphone. The Helio X30 itself is a 10-core smartphone, made on the 10nm process, featuring IMG 7XTP-Mt4 GPU which is powerful on its own. We should expect MediaTek's new Helio X30 to be just as good as the best chips from Qualcomm, Samsung, and Huawei.

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The upcoming Apollo 2 smartphone from Vernee will come in two versions:

6GB LPDDR4 RAM + 64GB storage

8GB LPDDR4 RAM + 128GB storage.

Apollo 2 will rock a QHD display, and is shaping up to be a thin smartphone, too.