When a consumer compares 

the latest smartphones Apple and Samsung, all the attention is focused on the most obvious aspects of the device - the design, the size of the display, its resolution. But it turns out there is a competition between the two and the opposition, a significant few. So to say a hidden part of the iceberg in the water. 

Apple and processors: a winning combination 

While most manufacturers of smartphones processors acquire from third party suppliers such as Qualcomm and Media Tek, Apple is developing its own line of single-chip systems for mobile devices - CPU "A" series. In particular, in the flagship iPhone A7 chip is used, and the next model will be powered by an A8. 

The American company has its own reasons to create their own processors. After all, Apple develops its own operating system and iOS for their mobile devices. So that developers can make the most efficient integration of software and hardware platforms, to provide consumers with the best experience of using iOS-devices. The simplest example - is the effectiveness of working with RAM. The current generation of the iPhone and iPad are working with 1 GB of RAM most efficiently Android-competitors with 2 GB and 3 GB of RAM, even on board. Finally, as the company has full control over the design and functionality of their devices, it can quickly change and update their firmware, adding some features or solve problems. Apple or not depend on anyone that plays on her hand and gives a lot of freedom. 

Samsung has two advantages over Apple 

The Korean company also designs and manufactures its own processors for their smartphones and tablets. But Samsung has a couple of the most important features, which currently lacks Apple - it's own cellular modem and plants for the production of processors. 

In a few generations of their Apple devices use processors from A-series, along with chips from third-party vendors like Qualcomm. In the case of the Korean firm Samsung is trying to produce its own cellular modems and processors under the brand Exynos, and taking advantage of the third-party providers - the same Qualcomm and Intel. By the way, support LTE appeared only in the last generation Exynos, before Samsung had to be content processors from Qualcomm's device models focused on the cellular networks of the last generation. 

However, more importantly, Samsung has been producing its own processors, while Apple relies on Samsung and services Taiwan Semiconductor. So do not underestimate the fact that the Koreans themselves control the release of processors and chip design and modems, as well as the creation of smartphones and tablets. 

A key advantage of Apple to Samsung 

When Apple launched the iPhone 5s in the last year, it became known that the processor A7 features the latest architecture ARMv8. This enabled the company from Cupertino to support 64-bit mode on their mobile devices. According to AnandTech, architecture ARMv8 and said mode mobile devices provide additional resources to provide higher performance than 32-bit competitors.