MSM7000

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

Generally these SOCs have the following main components:

  • Applications processor, ARM1136J-S, running Windows Mobile / Android / Linux / etc.
  • Applications DSP, QDSP5000, does coding/decoding for media.
  • Baseband processor, ARM9, running a real-time OS and the GSM stack
  • Baseband DSP, QDSP4000, does coding/decoding for telephony

Apart from the CPU core 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, etc.). They also contain an AXI controller, a kind of memory control unit.

They are widely used in smartphones produced by HTC Corporation (including both Windows Mobile and Android devices), Sony Ericsson, LG Group, Samsung, ZTE, and also other devices like the Zeebo.

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