Samsung

Samsung (Hangul: 삼성; hanja: 三星; Korean pronunciation: [sʰamsʰʌŋ]) is a South Korean multinational conglomerate company headquartered in Samsung Town, Seoul. It comprises numerous subsidiaries and affiliated businesses, most of them united under the Samsung brand, and is the largest South Korean chaebol (business conglomerate).

Samsung was founded by Lee Byung-chul in 1938 as a trading company. Over the next three decades, the group diversified into areas including food processing, textiles, insurance, securities and retail. Samsung entered the electronics industry in the late 1960s and the construction and shipbuilding industries in the mid-1970s; these areas would drive its subsequent growth. Following Lee's death in 1987, Samsung was separated into four business groups – Samsung Group, Shinsegae Group, CJ Group and Hansol Group. Since 1990s, Samsung has increasingly globalized its activities and electronics, particularly mobile phones and semiconductors, have become its most important source of income.

List of Qualcomm Snapdragon devices

This is a list of Qualcomm Snapdragon devices.

Snapdragon is a family of mobile systems on a chip (SoC) made by Qualcomm for use in smartphones, tablets, and smartbook devices.

Snapdragon S1

Snapdragon S2

Snapdragon S3

Snapdragon S4

Snapdragon 200 series

Snapdragon 200

Snapdragon 208

Snapdragon 210 and 212

Snapdragon 400 series

Snapdragon 400

Snapdragon 410 and 412

The Snapdragon 410 system on a chip was announced on 9 December 2013, it is Qualcomm's first 64-bit mobile system on a chip. It also has Multimode 4G LTE, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, NFC, GPS, GLONASS and BeiDou capabilities, and contains the Adreno 306 GPU. It is capable of supporting a 1080p screen and a 13 Megapixel camera.

Snapdragon 415 and 425

Snapdragon 415 and Snapdragon 425 were announced on 18 February 2015. Both are octa-core SoCs featuring eight ARM Cortex-A53 processor cores. They support LTE connectivity (Cat 4 and Cat 7, respectively), and feature the Adreno 405 GPU, the same GPU as used in the previously introduced Snapdragon 615 which also has eight Cortex-A53 processor cores.

MSM7000

MSM7000 is a series system-on-a-chip manufactured by Qualcomm for handheld devices, especially smartphones.

These SOCs have multiple processing cores but unlike the contemporary processor chips (e.g. AMD's Athlon/Phenom and Intel's Core series) these multiple cores are not available in the OS to run applications with symmetric multiprocessing properties, there is only one core to run the OS and user applications.

Generally these SOCs have the following 4 cores:

Aside the CPU cores the chips contain such hardware as 2D graphics hardware, 3D (OpenGL ES 1.1) graphics hardware, media acceleration hardware (for video decode etc.), and various interfaces (keyboard, display / MDDI, USB, camera, TV, ...). They also contain an AXI controller, a kind of memory control unit.