【market】mainstream mobile devices and their hardware(SoC, CPU, ...)

• Conclusion:
  • Cortex-A9 are widely used before 2012(include 2012).
  • Cortex-A15 and Krait 400 nearly ocupy the high-level mobile devices market since 2013(include 2013)
  • ARMv8-A are only used in iphone 5S, iPad Air and iPad mini 2 until 2014.07

	First Release	Max. CPU freq()	System on chip	processor	Instruction set (architecture)	DRAM
iphone 4	201006	800MHz	Apple A4	Cortex-A8	ARM v7	512MB
Samsung Galaxy S2	201105	1.2 GHz	Samsung Exynos 4 Dual	dual-core ARM Cortex-A9	ARM v7	1 GB RAM
iphone 4s	201110	800MHz	Dual-core Apple A5	Cortex-A9	ARM v7	512MB
Samsung Galaxy S3	201205	1.4 GHz or 1.5GHz	Samsung Exynos 4 or Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 MSM8960	1.4 GHz quad-core Cortex-A9 or 1.5 GHz dual-core Krait	ARM v7	1 GB RAM
iphone 5	201209	1.3 GHz	Apple A6	Swift ARMv7-A compatible	ARMv7s	1 GB LPDDR3 RAM
Samsung Galaxy Note 2	201209	1.6 GHz	Samsung Exynos 4412 Quad	quad-core Cortex-A9	ARMv7	2 GB RAM
ipad 4	201210	1.4 GHz	Apple A6X	Swift	ARMv7s	1 GB DDR2 RAM
ipad mini 1	201211	1 GHz	Apple A5 2nd Generation	Cortex-A9	ARM v7	512 MB DDR2 RAM
Nexus 4	201211	1.512 GHz	Qualcomm Snapdragon S4	quad-core Krait	ARMv7	2 GB of LPDDR2 RAM
Samsung Galaxy S4	201304	1.6 GHz	Samsung Exynos 5 Octa 5410	quad-core Cortex-A15	ARM v7	2 GB LPDDR3 RAM
iphone 5c	201309	1.3 GHz	Apple A6	Swift ARMv7-A compatible	ARMv7s	1 GB LPDDR2-1066 RAM
iphone 5S	201309	1.3 GHz	Apple A7	Cyclone	ARMv8-A	1 GB LPDDR3 RAM
Samsung Galaxy Note 3	201309	1.9GHz or 2.3GHz	Samsung Exynos 5 Octa 5420 (HSPA+ version) Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 (LTE version)	Octa-core 1.9 GHz Cortex-A15 and 1.3 GHz Cortex-A7 (HSPA+ version) 2.3 GHz quad-core Snapdragon 800 (LTE version)	ARMv7	3 GB LPDDR3
Xiaomi Mi3	201309	2.3 GHz or 1.8GHz		2.3GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 8274AB Quad Core Krait 400 & 1.8 GHz quad core Nvidia Tegra 4 4+1 Core Cortex-A15	ARMv7	2GB RAM LPDDR3
Nexus 5	201310	2.26 GHz	Qualcomm Snapdragon 800	quad-core Krait 400	ARMv7	2 GB of LPDDR3-1600 RAM
ipad Air	201311	1.4 GHz	Apple A7 with 64-bit	Cyclone	ARMv8-A	1 GB RAM
ipad mini 2	201311	1.4 GHz	Apple A7 with 64-bit	Cyclone	ARMv8-A	1GB LPDDR3 DRAM
Samsung Galaxy Note 3 Neo	201402	1.7GHz or 1.6GHz	Samsung Exynos 5 Octa 5260 (LTE version) Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 (3G version)	Hexa-core 1.7 GHz Cortex-A15 and 1.3 GHz Cortex-A7 (LTE version) 1.6 GHz quad-core Snapdragon 400 (3G version)	ARMv7	2 GB LPDDR3
Samsung Galaxy S5	201404	2.1 GHz or 2.5 GHz	Samsung Exynos 5 Octa 5422 LTE versions: Qualcomm Snapdragon 801	2.1 GHz quad-core Cortex-A15 and 1.5 GHz quad-core Cortex-A7 (big.LITTLE) LTE versions: 2.5 GHz quad-core Krait 400	ARMv7	2 GB LPDDR3 RAM
Xiaomi Mi 4	201407	2.45GHz	Qualcomm Snapdragon 801(MSM8974-AC) chipset	Qualcomm Krait 400	ARMv7	3GB RAM
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