4 Things to Know About Smartphone Chipset

Bangalore: Gone are the days when you used to select a phone for its design and looks. When devices are getting smart, you have to become smarter to pick the best one that suites your needs. Advancement of chipset technology is the major factor that made present generation smartphones to have quad-core processors after going through single-core and dual-core.  And when processors get advanced other specifications like screen resolution, operating system, apps and cameras are meant to get improved. Read on to know more about the heart of your smartphone and then decide what kind of body you would like to have for it.

1. System on Chip is the Arteries and Veins:

System on Chip (SoC) is an integrated circuit that connects all the primary components like graphic card, memory controller, CPU into that small single chip. The smartphone manufactures just deploys this single chip into their handsets and they gets the combined benefit of CPU, GPU, memory controller and all other components which make your phone work.

Nvidia and Qualcomm are the two major players in the smartphone SoC market. When it comes to SoC Qualcomm chips has achieved a better integration of components with their smaller fabrication process that makes lots of stuff sit inside one single chip. Whereas Nvidia is stuck with 40nm fabrication due to which they can’t think of inserting new components without increasing the size of the chip.