There is dangerous practice with respect to complicated systems of computing hardware to be assigned single numbers for easy comparison. It was being done in the case of the number of bits on the bus, clock speed etc. There is every chance for that being implemented in core count as well. It is not a correct practice. The reason is that processing power is not directly proportional to the number of additional cores. For example, there may be 10 cores in a GPU but that does not mean that a computer can be manufactured with them. In spite of all this knowledge, when Adapteva declared to release a 64 core RISC co-processor for smartphone it is believed all round without any hesitation.

The chip Epiphany-I will not be able to replace the phone's main system on a chip (SoC) but will relieve off processing requests to it. A smartphone with Epiphany-IV can deal with the tasks as and when needed, just as a multi core system on chip can trigger additional cores if required.

It is yet to be learnt as to how well the quad-core items will function in conjunction with the operating systems and apps of the smartphone. However it is indeed exciting that the smartphones can have 64 core chips.