Why CPU is so important

In the smart phone, the CPU make sure the smart phone can perform any APP, aka, any function as per users wants. The world exist mainly Qualcomm, MTK and China Spreadtrum.

Qualcomm is surely the best, of course, also the most expensive, Qualcomm's CPU is not just the smart phone, it can even use in any nevigating device, the application to the smartphone is somehow a giant in a village.

MTK is high focus at smart phone and get the technology from the Taiwan partner to provide precise nano materials to realize the higher core demands. And their sales team are also the best gone from Taiwan to Mainland China to support their customers, their sales work hard and play hard.

Spreadtrum is newly established CPU local China factory, also highly focus at smart phone, with the relative lower price. If the smartphone comes 8 cores of below, Spreadtrum is still a wise choice, due to the stable production line join-venture alike with Intel.

Personally, the current good IDH are still got prefer to MTK, Indeed, due to their wise sales and fast support especially its FastPass service and always help their customer to realize the design and match to the international market. For example, currently, Google are going to insist to the MADA, and MTK help more factories who are supposed cannot meet Google standard yo optimize their standard to meet Google's standard. In the coming Feb. 2018, Android may stop the Android APP as soon as the smart phone is no longer the MADA smart phone, where will alert the user to OTA their smart phone to decide if their is MADA or not.

Such activity are supposed to complete on August 2017, Google keeps the delay for filtering more factories to enter their GMS standard by launching them the MADA, in the future, Google will list all of their authorized GMS factories in their site say as Google-Legal smart phone factories due to own their MADA.

The coming innovation of the China Andrpoid smart phone

As one of the most dynamic industry from China, Android Smart Phone keep the innovation to match the new technology development too.

The rapid charging of charged up to 50% within 15 minutes, which is a solution from Dialog chip, where fulfill the CPU structure too to have such combination of using c3.5A current in 15 minutes to charge up to 50% to fulfill the rapid demanding from the user.

The R curve corner of the smart phone screen where allow the better visual effect as well as better user experience. And comes with 16:9 alike new dimension display where are also for supporting more multimedia playing especially during watching the YouTube and Game.

The camera is no longer just a len to capture the image illustration, it 's a scanner alike design can take the good photo of the black in the night time, due to such scanning design. And design with the beauty function to photoshop the human profile to be more beauty with color and sharpness features, even the objects can adjust the size to have the more make-sense beauty ratio.

And the dual camera will also be popular too, where can capture more image effect and edit the photo even originally not sharp enough with higher editing function.

Why MTK, the Google FastPass

As the MTK SOC, System On Chip, aka, the solution of the chip, MTK keep of proving more and more value-added service to their clients, else of the quality chip.

6580, 3G, quad-core

6737, 4G, quad-core

6739, 4G, quad-core

6753, 4G, hex-core

6757, 4G, hex-core

One of the very useful service from MTK is FastPass service which is allowed from Google too to support MTK clients. Which is somehow likely an innovative Google patch from Google OTA server, which serve the channels via MTK, where can acclerate the GMS testing. Since if cannot pass the GMS, where the smart phone is not supposed to sell in the market, and such testing takes usually around 15 days, if Cannot pass, it takes 3-4 weeks to test again, where may harm to the L/C payment as soon as delay.Where MTK pack all GMS in a simulating environment, if it can pass MTK FastPass, usually, it can pass GMS. In that FastPass, there would not exist other third party APP, but the Google.

One of the black-box rules is that MTK pack all latest software from GMS in order to fulfill the newest GMS testing needs, till the November 2017, the latest version is R16, and Google would keep to the higher version to fulfiull the non-stop higher and higher demanding from the market.

The security patch update comes from OTS upgrade, which are usually once per 3 months with around 20-30 papers from Google to MTK. And MTK pack to be the useful file to all channels & factories.

And the factories can keep to provide the more customization ID, Industrial Design, to their clients, as well as any off-the-shelf service.

Google MADA, which is likely an quality authorized lisence from Google to perform the GMS, Google Mobile Services, to ensure the quality product can sell in the market.

Google MADA, Mobile Application Distribution Agreement, which is about making sure to provide the quality service from Google to any Android users serving with GMS, Google Mobile Services. And MADA is the verification aka as simple as an examination from Google to the manufacturers of the smart device or the IDH, Integrated Design House, who's role is about designing the modules of the smart devices.

Google release the MADA to the factories, firstly for filtering the quality factories, secondly, Google also want the IDH to serve the OTA, Over The Air, online upgrade and update from the own OTA server, the IDH can work to more channels and users, which helps to save Google's resources. Before that, only the multinational brands such as Samsung or HTC would exist the own OTA server, or let the IDH company to assist them to operate such big brand's OTA server. When the models goes too old such as any dual-cores smart phone, the OTA service would end too, due to the product cycle like are supposed ended too. And the IDH core value are also from their own capability to have the hardware, software and own source code development.

Else of the IDH, the CPU factory such as MTK would provide the similar service too, they assembly with the own licenced code, and make it to be an OTA package, then, update to all MTK CPU users and channels, and such organisations update to all of their users.

For meeting that MADA, the smart devices factory needs to invest many intelligent resources, such more more CPM, Customer Product Manager, more engineers. It's due to any MADA owner are not supposed to refused any possibilities idea from any Android smart devices innovation, such as l.o.t., l.o.c., medical equipment aka any Google Cloud possibilities. And even capable to work with relative small volume of he order ranging from 3K - 5K etc, which needs high skill to control the factories production, and even strictly control the quality and hardware/software performance.

 The factories perform the above task are usually available of the knowledge and technology stated above. For example, the security patch experience likely the FOTA doing. They have been working with like CPU factory MTK to fix the bug of the deep code, and MTK would also check for them any new update from Google patch and update to them before. Part of the IDH was even do the 3PL, Third Party Licence, who run with MADA for the internal testing and internal R & D, allowing them to serve the big brands who are available of the MADA.

FOTA or OTA are currently free, FOTA's free are about the business model where attract more people to use it, when the user think which is valuable and helpful, the, it can establish the business model to charge the licence fee, lets say 50 cents per licence.

Google GMS Express Plus, the key accelerate to Mobile Service eco system

Google GMS, Google Mobile Services, which is a testing standard for testing mainly the software standard. Part of the testing patch are CTS(the third party solution allowing the smart phone SOFTWARE to enter the China Mainland mobile service operator's service), CTA(the third party solution allowing the smart phone HARDWARE to enter the China Mainland mobile service operator's service), GTS, etc. Which means the previous GMS Express based on CTS test for any other APP + Google APP, and the GTS test for purely all Android Google APP, and combined together to be that GMS Express, where the manufacturers are responsible for updating the Google Packages.

Originally from the Google's Google GMS Express, which is the quality testing standard from Google. Which can say as Google's ISO, UL, CE alike function. And the  GMS Express Plus is about providing more service to Android users where guild them to use Google's service in-depth. or example, put all Google's APP in the home screen, default to open the browser with Chrome, the good place of a screen displaying mainly the Google's APP etc. Since most of the mobile phone service operators in the world would put the own APP and even in any good place of a screen or even default to open their APP first, especially when they resell the movie content. So, else of the mobile phone service operator's channel, Google needs to open the more channels where would prioritise to use Google's services. For accelerating it, Google is even willing to pay for the third party lab testing fee when the smart phone put with the GMS Express Plus.

In order to move GMS Express Plus faster, Google even can pay for the 3PL testing for any order where the volume is small. Since one small order like 5K, the 3PL testing can be around USD1,000 - USD2,000, so, on average, the cost is quite high to have the testing per order. And when use of GMS Express Plus, Google would fix that cost, which is very attractive to use so and actively promote the GMS Express Plus. Currently, there are 4 3PL firms that recognized from Google, one of them is MTK, after passed all necessary testing procedure, get that 3PL to delivery the phone say as Google-Legally delivery to the market and get the OTA from Google. That Google police is quite powerful and helpful, when any manufacturers ever pass the CTS & GTS & any Google security patch, it's an fatal important to keep the running of the smart phone business.

ARM structure about the Android Smartphone

Which is the CPU aka hardware structure regarding the optimized design of a smart phone. Any smart phone can run fast and faster and keep to accelerate, however, the disadvantage is that the smart phone would be as hot as up to near 70 degree Celsius, and the power consumption would be also too fast to use up. So, how's the best structure of a smart phone? ARM provide the percentage to balance the limited resources of a smart phone hardware design.

The market exist also the various solution too about the hardware structure aka CPU structure, just the ARM one is currently the best. It decide also how fast reaction of a camera where can provide the good user experience without occupying too much smart phone resources.

Why call CPU structure? It's due to all design start from a CPU as the core to design too, especially after GPU (Graphic Processing Unit) get integrated into the CPU too. And the CPU keep to integrate more and more other chips together too. So, all optimized design start from the CPU.