Mobile

Mobile hardware

Terms

6 terms

  • Battery health

    Battery health is the measure of how much charge a mobile device battery can still hold, and how well it delivers power, compared with when it…

  • Fast charging

    Fast charging is a set of techniques that let a phone draw higher power than basic USB charging, refilling a lithium-ion battery much faster under control.

  • Mobile GPU

    A mobile GPU is the graphics processor inside a phone SoC, built for tile-based rendering under tight power and thermal limits rather than peak speed.

  • Mobile NPU

    A mobile NPU is a neural processing unit inside a smartphone SoC that runs machine learning inference faster and more efficiently than the CPU or GPU.

  • Mobile SoC

    A mobile SoC is a single chip that integrates the CPU, GPU, NPU, image processor, memory controller and often the modem of a smartphone or tablet.

  • Qi wireless charging

    Qi wireless charging is the open inductive charging standard that lets phones and accessories charge by resting on a compatible pad, without a cable.