Qualcomm and MTK partition the world? Mobile phone processor brand analysis

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Qualcomm and MTK partition the world? Mobile phone processor brand analysis

The topic above is not very relevant to the topic of mobile (mainly mobile phone and tablet) processor branding, but on the other hand, regardless of which mobile processor manufacturer, the goal of its efforts is such as Intel in the PC domain dominance?

At present, there are many manufacturers to join the mobile processor market, there are Qualcomm, MediaTek (MTK), NVIDIA, Intel, Samsung, Texas Instruments and Huawei HiSilicon these, which Qualcomm and MediaTek are currently the most influential in the market, Qualcomm's long-range mobile processors have the highest market share and focus, and MediaTek, with its low-cost quad-core processors released at the end of last year, also has a good market performance this year in the entry-level market, with a large number of domestic manufacturers using their products. Let's look at the brand of these mobile processors.

Qualcomm Snapdragon Dragon

I was the first to know Qualcomm is a network of communications patents to make money, and later in the era of Android smartphones, Qualcomm in the mobile processor area of growing fame, but also gradually received more attention (of course, the patent is still the main source of money).

Qualcomm Company in order to promote the brand, last year specifically for the mobile processor in the field of sub-brand Snapdragon launched the Chinese name: Dragon, at the same time, also in the last year, the mobile processor in accordance with the launch of the different time and divided into Dragon S1, S2, S3, S4 and other series, However, this time-based approach is not able to experience the performance of the product, so at the beginning of this year's CES show, Qualcomm introduced a new series Division: Dragon 200, 400, 600, 800, their performance level can be understood as Intel's i3, i5, i7, This division is more understandable.

Qualcomm Snapdragon series processing Chinese name "dragon"

Early this year Qualcomm released four series of mobile processors

Whether from the first Dragon S1 series single-core processor, to now the latest and strongest dragon 8,004 core, Qualcomm's Dragon series of mobile processors have a lot of classic products, such as the use of the HTC Desire QSD8250 single Core, to the millet generation used MSM8260 duo, To Xiaomi 2 and the APQ8064 four core of many models, as well as last month's official release of the Dragon MSM8974 four core, these models of processors in the past and the future will affect the development of the mobile processor industry.

MediaTek (MTK)

If Qualcomm is most likely to become a mobile processor in the field of Intel, then who will play the role of AMD? One of the "hot" candidates believes that MediaTek, the name MediaTek, may not be very familiar to you, but if the English abbreviation MTK, I believe many friends will be impressed. As early as the feature phone era, the use of the MediaTek program of domestic mobile phones (or directly said cottage phone) flooded with low-priced mobile phone market, it is at this time MediaTek was affixed to the low-end cheap and cottage label.

In the era of Android smartphones, MediaTek started later than other brands, and in the first half of last year MediaTek opened the smartphone market with single-core and dual-core processors, and at the end of last year, MediaTek officially released its first four-core product, MT6589, Although the brand awareness and product performance can not be compared with the same period of Qualcomm APQ8064, but by virtue of the advantages of the price above by the vast number of domestic handset manufacturers love, and starting this year, using the MediaTek MT6589 platform of four-core mobile phones springing up, their prices are mostly in the thousand-dollar level, Individual or even below thousand yuan, has promoted the four nuclear handset the universal popularity.

MediaTek MT6589 uses the cortex A7 architecture for a more general performance

MediaTek Although currently in the middle and high-end market can not be with Qualcomm and other brands of products, but the middle and low market has been occupied, and in order to respond to the rise of MediaTek, Qualcomm also dedicated to the low-end market in the main 200 products, but also for manufacturers to provide QRD (Qualcomm Reference design) platform. In addition, it is said that MediaTek will launch its own eight-core mobile processor product this year, which is a bit fast.

nvidia [NVIDIA]

Nvidia is a semiconductor company that designs display chips and motherboard chipsets, and is one of the most popular graphics chip vendors in the PC field, and with mobile processors, Nvidia is a very proactive company, Remember that the world's first dual-core and four-core handsets are based on Nvidia's mobile processors, with models of Tegra 2 and Tegra 3 respectively. Unfortunately, Nvidia's preemptive action did not give them a long-term advantage in the market, in Tegra 2 shortly after the introduction of Qualcomm's MSM8260 suppressed, high-end market sided to adopt Qualcomm platform, NVIDIA can only be squeezed into the low-end market. Similarly, last year's Tegra 3 was also influenced by Qualcomm APQ8064.

Tegra 4 was released as the strongest four-core, but it should be difficult to Qualcomm Snapdragon Dragon 800

And earlier this year, Nvidia hair in the new Tegra 4 mobile processor, unfortunately the use of the platform's mobile phone to now also delay, and the high-end market has been occupied by Qualcomm, and the low-end has become MediaTek's world, nvidia this dilemma is very embarrassing, how will nvidia break?

Intel (Intel)

Intel has a xscal series of processors for embedded handheld devices, and the Xscal series processors are arm-compatible, with Intel investing $ billions of, but eventually selling the entire xscal department because of poor market performance is a sad memory for Intel.

Mobile terminal in recent years, the explosion of the PC industry giant Intel also can't restrain, launched for smartphones and other mobile terminals of the processor, Intel will be used for netbook products a few years ago, the Atom series of processors used in mobile phones, of course, these are for mobile phones and other products and optimized modified. The biggest difference between atom and the previous Xscal series processors is the X86 architecture, which is the biggest differentiator between Intel Mobile processors and other branded processors. The X86 architecture with complex instruction sets has strong performance, but for mobile devices that need to be mobile, the power dissipation becomes the biggest problem for X86 architecture processors. As the current Android system is based on the ARM architecture, Intel also needs to make specific modifications to the Android system to be more compatible.

"Intel Inside" the classic propaganda will appear on the phone

Lenovo K800 last year used the Intel Atom Z2460 processor, which is a 1.6GHz single core, using 32nm technology, and this year's new Lenovo K900 and ZTE Geek use the Atom Z2580 dual-core processor, The main frequency also increased to 2.0GHz, but the process is still 32nm. In the long run, I believe Intel's technology accumulated in the PC World will gradually threaten Qualcomm, but it's a long way off.

Samsung Exynos

Among the many handset manufacturers, Samsung is a very special and very powerful one, Samsung in addition to the production of mobile phone terminal products, but also the production of mobile phone-related core components, such as processors, screens, memory, and so on, with these upstream industries, Samsung will not have to worry about the upstream parts supply shortage and affect the production of their mobile phone products. HTC Desire was forced to switch to MSM8260 (the performance of the two processors was very different) due to the lack of high-pass msm8260a because of a shortage of Samsung AMOLED screens and the use of the SLCD screen.

Samsung Galaxy S series and note series in addition to a very small number of models, the vast majority are using their own Exynos processor, imagine that these years sales tens of the main products, if the impact of processor capacity, the consequences will be disastrous. These "blood lessons" reflect the importance of Samsung in the upstream industry, which is one of the reasons for the rapid rise of Samsung mobile phones in the past two years. The same can be said that Samsung and HTC and other manufacturers of a big difference.

The Exynos 5 octa on the Samsung S4 is a dual quad-core design that balances performance and power consumption

Samsung's Exynos mobile processor is mostly used for its own products, but it also offers a small number of products to a small number of manufacturers, such as the Meizu we know, whose generations of mobile phones are based on the Samsung Exynos processor (or optimized for Samsung processors) or Lenovo K860/last year. K860i and Newman N2, and even the previous generations of Apple's iphone processors are based on Samsung's product optimizations. At present, in addition to the Samsung Galaxy S4, the flagship of the Android system is the use of its own dual quad-core processor, the others are high-pass processors, but also subject to high-pass capacity and supply.

Huawei HiSilicon

In addition to the above-mentioned Samsung does not want to be subject to Qualcomm, China's Huawei also has the same idea, so early last year launched its own research and development of the HiSilicon K3v2 processor, is the industry's smallest four-core A9 architecture processor in 2012. But the ideal is far better, the reality is more brutal, the use of K3v2 products early last year in the MWC has been released, but by the HiSilicon processor, the impact of various problems, and finally led to mobile phone terminal products in the second half of the official listing, missed the first half of the four core mobile phone listed in the golden period, Reduce their competitiveness in the market.

Huawei HiSilicon K3v2 is a brave attempt, but the price is high, looking forward to the launch of the next generation of products

Whether Qualcomm, Samsung or Nvidia are launching a new high-end processor this year, such as the use of the Qualcomm Snapdragon Dragon 600 processor products have already occupied the market, the stronger Dragon 800 processor has been released, 8 September will start a full spread. and HiSilicon new generation of products still no news, the current Huawei high-end four-core mobile phones still rely on the k3v2 hard support.

Texas Instruments (TI)

Texas Instruments is the author likes a brand, Motorola's RAZR series of models is the use of Texas Instruments processor, even Google launched the Galaxy Nexus is the use of Texas Instruments OMAP4460 dual-core processor. Unfortunately, the product or stay in the dual-core era, there is no new products to force the launch, gradually began to be forgotten by people.

Summarize:

It says seven current mainstream mobile processor manufacturers, but this year basically only Qualcomm and MediaTek respectively in the impact of high-end and mid-low market, nvidia and Intel too small, product penetration is not high, Samsung and HiSilicon are home in use. The second half of the year with the Nvidia Tegra 4 started on the market, I believe it will have a certain impact on Qualcomm and MediaTek. It is rumored that MediaTek will launch a eight-core processor by the end of this year, which could put pressure on high-end products. These are the sights of the future mobile processor industry.

Qualcomm and MTK partition the world? Mobile phone processor brand analysis