Do you think it's just a CPU when you lift a phone processor? What, you always think so? Well, boy, it's naïve.
Have you heard of the "core M" processor in the PC field? The processor, which can be plugged into a tablet, laptop or computer, is not a single processor, but is called the "Soc" (on-chip system), and the more integrated mobile processor is naturally a member of the SOC.
What do you mean, SOC? You can think of it as a combination of chips packaged in a chip that would otherwise have existed. For example, mobile phone processor (SOC) often integrated CPU, GPU, coprocessor, ISP, baseband and many other modules, anyway is very complex.
Below, let's go through 5 diagrams to learn more about the actual structure of the phone processor.
How about, see here you also dare to despise mobile phone processor? Small series to remind you again, each cell phone processor will also be equipped with a lot of peripheral chips, such as power management chip and so on. The reason that sometimes uses the same processor two type handset has the difference in the function, is because the processor baseband, the ISP and so on chip all can use the third party chip substitution. For example, some mobile phone processor baseband does not support telecommunications network, want to gain the ability of the entire netcom must plug a Qualcomm full Netcom baseband.
Finally, to popularize a knowledge point, there are children's shoes reflect that the handset can not find the processor chip. The answer is simple, such as the Samsung S7 above, which encapsulates the processor chip and memory (note not NAND flash drive) chips together to save space.