What makes your smartphone smart? One key ingredient is the application processor that enables the devices to run the applications that are often so impressive.
The makers of these processors—and indeed, the companies that make the designs that go into these processors—keep adding new features. At the Mobile World Congress (MWC) show, many were showing off their products and talking about where mobile processors would be going in the future.
Sometimes the applications processors get what you might call brand names: Qualcomm’s Snapdragon, Texas Instruments’ OMAP, and Nvidia’s Tegra come to mind. But often they are fairly anonymous components, identified only by part number or speed, if that. Sti