Smartphone processors have come a long way since Apple defined the modern smartphone with 2007’s iPhone. A 412-MHz Arm 11 system-on-chip (SoC) was all it needed back then, but the increasing complexity of these devices — and our deepening dependence on them — means that modern smartphones now boast the sort of processing power that we could only dream of in 2007. Multi-core, gigahertz-speed SoCs are now the norm, even in cheap Android smartphones. But despite the vast improvements across
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