Smartphone chip manufacturers themselves why
Some time this we often read smartphone manufacturers design their own chips.
Apple is moving the entire Mac line to its custom silicone.
Google just launched its first flagship phone
with a specially designed chipset Oppo and Microsoft is rumored to be joining the trend to make its own special chips.
It does not feel Android smartphone technology, initially dominated by chip manufacturer Qualcomm and following Mediatek.
Why do every company
want to make their own components What it does to make their own chips instead of buying from another manufacturer?
The chip discussed is a CPU chip or SoC that is installed as the heart of a
smartphone.
Including GPU units that handle visual images on the screen are inside the
chip.
From the old technology, GPUs and CPUs are made separately.
Now desktop computers to smartphones unite functions on a single chip.
Some technologies fit inside the CPU, such as a neural network that serves as an AI processor or artificial
intelligence.
Slowly but surely, AI is common in smartphone devices.
Not just photos or videos, but voice recognition, instant image analysts, language translators and more.
When manufacturers buy chip technology from other
companies.
Designing a CPU chip is not easy, even released long enough.
Apple used the APL0098 chip for the 2007 iPhone.
Android smartphones use more Snapdragon
procesor until Apple uses the CPU chip A15 Bionic iPhone 13. From this side, Apple excels.
Other
companies are looking at Apple’s performance, particularly Android smartphone products and want to keep up including Google.
When the manufacturer orders the chip, then the manufacturer has additional control for the product to be used alone.
Instead of following chips from other manufacturers to follow the hardware set offered.
The approach, make as you wish and see the
results.
Apple is more careful, relying on iPhone
software.
So that it can adjust the basic components.
Optimizing the 2-way technique between
CPU design and smartphone software means that the system will work more efficiently, efficiently interpreted smartphone performance faster.
The impact, users feel the ability of the smartphone to work smoothly.
iOS upgrade case version 15 for iPhone.
It can work on older smartphones in 2015 such as the iPhone 6s.
Because Apple knows all the hardware designs that are made by themselves.
Although the old iPhone smartphone technology has been left behind, it still works well after getting an OS upgrade.
Security also has an
impact. System OS updates can improve security for older iPhone models.
It took Apple a while before deciding to make its own CPU
chip.
Now the transition is visible.
New technology from the latest MacBook improves performance significantly when Apple’s own CPU is
used.
Compared to chips made by Intel that had lasted a long time used for Apple notebooks.
Google is a manufacturer of Android
OS.
When the Pixel 6 and 6 Pro appear in the physical form of a smartphone, it seems obviously one area controlled by the Android system.
From AI, Neural is handled in SoC/CPU. For Android smartphones, while the Pixel 6 feature is not owned by any Android smartphone.
Pixel is sold more expensive than other Android smartphones. But that’s what the user gets.
comes with a custom tensor procesor CPU.
When other smartphone manufacturers are chasing the pixel size of the sensor is very large.
Google relies on photography algorithms.
Why google relies on 2 Cortex X1?
Google’s VP says cpUs can split workloads into Cortex X1, making CPU core performance more efficient.
Examples in active camera units and recording up to rendering and detection from Google Lens to ML features can be done at once.
When relying on 1 active X1 core, cpu performance will delegate tasks to lower cores such as to some A76 cores.
With an additional 2 X2 cores, faster performance, power efficiency, and heat are lower. At the same time save the battery.
Pixel 5 case, Google uses Snapdragon 765G procesor. The impact of heat in smartphones, especially when using a camera.
One of the magic eraser features, removing annoying parts in the background can be deleted.
The feature is reportedly also modified for other phones based on Android 11.
Qualcomm deployed the SoC Tensor.
But Qualcomm doesn’t engage manufacturers directly with chip designs that constantly change models.
When smartphone manufacturers design their own
chips. That means they make CPU chips for their own brand smartphones.
That doesn’t mean the manufacturer produces chips. The production process is handled by other companies because there are limitations to setting up a very expensive factory. No problem, as long as TSMC and Samsung are able to make.
Google’s CPU is made by Samsung.
wants
phone manufacturers to make new innovations for
Android.
Want all parties want to develop Android technology from various aspects.
Now it seems to be changing, where there are benefits greater than the shortcomings that exist. Manufacturers can at least design homemade CPU chips to make smartphone performance more efficient.
Maybe in the future we’ll see another
change.
Such as smartwatch devices, Chromebooks and other products in the future.
The problem is the price, whatever technological developments there are certainly those who pay that consumers.
As long as the ability of soc can be utilized properly, and the life of use is longer. Why not.
