In the hopes of moving more producer on to its Tegra line of mobile oriented chipsets Nvidia has released a whitepaper that claims multi-core computing to be the future for smartphones and tablets - and even makes the claim that maximum cores can save rather than price you power.

The paper entitled Benefits of Multi-core CPUs in Mobile Devices predicts that dual-core processors will become the rule for mobile devices in 2011 and that quad-core chips will come shortly after.

It's not all about putting maximum processing power into a device however the company claims that mobile devices like smartphones and tablets profit even more from multi-core architectures because the battery life benefits are so large.

To demonstrate how such a seemingly opposite stance - adding additional cores resulting in less power utilization - is possible Nvidia takes the example of a pair of identical mobile devices one runs a single-core ARM Cortex-A9 chip while the other features a dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 chip. In both cases the processors are same in condition aside from the number of processing cores.