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WHAT IS A GPU?

A Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) is a specialized electronic circuit designed to rapidly manipulate and alter memory to accelerate the creation of images in a frame buffer intended for output to a display

MAJOR SMARTPHONE SoCs

Hello and welcome. In today’s post, we’re going to be looking at all major smartphone SoCs according to their tiers. […]

QUALCOMM SNAPDRAGON {A RUNDOWN}

Qualcomm was created on July 1, 1985 by seven former Linkabit employees led by Irwin Jacobs. The company was named Qualcomm for “QUALity COMMunications.”

CPU cores in smartphone SoCs

A processor core in a smartphone is a unit inside a smartphone SoC that can be considered as the brain of the phone. In simpler terms, A core is a processing unit within an SoC.

System On A Chip (SoC) For Smartphones

According to Wikipedia, A system on a chip or system on chip (SoC /ˌɛsˌoʊˈsiː/ es-oh-SEE or / sɒk/ sock) can be defined an integrated circuit (also known as a “chip” that integrates all components of a computer or other electronic system.

WHY IS THE KNOWLEDGE OF SPECS IMPORTANT?

Surely, you must have come across a lot of people who dismiss specs as rubbish. I know I have. As soon they ask, “oh this your photo is lovely, how can I make my phone take such a photo?” As soon as you start explaining that their phone uses an 8 megapixel (mp) camera and cannot take pictures like a 48mp camera, you have lost them……

Welcome To Inquisitive Universe!

I needed a new phone so I proudly walked into a Shoprite mall and I bought a 2GB RAM and a 16GB ROM phone for forty-five thousand Naira in 2018. I was very proud of it. Then a tech savvy friend introduced me to the popular PUBG mobile. To my shock, my precious phone could not play it. As if that was not bad enough, there were many other things it couldn’t do. So my friend patiently explained how very important a processor was…..