Last week Lava has released Xolo X900 Android Smartphone which will be world’s first Intel inside smartphone. Currently most of the smartphone manufacturing companies use ARM based chipsets like Snapdragon S4 processor but Lava’s X900 will be the first smartphone which will be powered by Intel’s Medfield platform. Medfield is a Soc built on Intel Atom Processor. It supports x86 processor instruction set architecture and it is mainly developed for…

Snapdragon CPU’s are high performance CPU’s of Qualcomm. Snapdragon soc model numbers like MSM8260A or MSM8230 are little hard to grasp. So qualcomm has framed a simple protocol for consumers w.r.t its Soc’s (System On Chip) for the sake of easy understanding. It has divided its Snapdragon Soc’s into four categories. S1, S2, S3 and S4. S1 being the cheap and low power device whereas S4 is the most powerful…

Before getting into the Multi-Core – What is a Core? Core or the Central Processing Unit (CPU) is the microprocessor fabricated in a single silicon chip forms the computation engine. Fundamental operation of the core is to read and execute the program instructions before providing us the expected output. Core is made up of numerous transistors and a clock is fed to it for its operation. This Clock freq plays…

Like a PC now most of the Smartphones specification includes a GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) along with the CPU (Central Processing Unit). Companies like Intel, ARM and AMD produce the CPU and companies like Nvidia, AMD’s ATI produce the GPU. CPU and GPU are two very vast and complex topics which cant be explained in one article, my attempt is to give you an overview of the GPU and how…