MSM7000

MSM7000 is a series system-on-a-chip manufactured by Qualcomm for handheld devices, especially smartphoness.

These SOCs have multiple processing cores but unlike the contemporary processor chips (e.g AMDs' Athlon/Phenom and Intels' Core series) these multiple cores are not available in the OS to run applications with symmetric multiprocessing properties, there is only one core to run the OS and user applications.

Generally these SOCs have the following 4 cores:

• Applications processor, ARM1136EJ-S, running Windows / Linux / etc.
• Applications DSP, QDSP5000, does coding/decoding for media.
• Baseband processor, ARM9, running a real-time OS and the GSM stack
• Baseband DSP, QDSP4000, does coding/decoding for telephony

Aside the CPU cores the chips contain such hardware as 2D graphics hardware, 3D (OpenGL ES 1.1) graphics hardware, media acceleration hardware (for video decode etc.), and various interfaces (keyboard, display / MDDI, USB, camera, TV, ...). They also contain an AXI controller, a kind of memory control unit.

They are widely used in smartphones produced by HTC Corporation (including both Windows Mobile and Android devices), Sony Ericsson, LG Group, Samsung, and also other devices like the Zeebo.

MSM7200, MSM7201, MSM7200A, MSM7201A

See the Qualcomm page.

The A versions have higher specs (frequencies). The 7201 versions have a different radio than the 7200 versions.

Popular phones using these processors:

• MSM7201 528MHz 90nm; Palm Treo Pro, Pharos Traveler 117, Pharos Traveler 127
• MSM7201A 528MHz 65nm; HTC Dream, T-Mobile Comet US(Huawei Ideos U8150), HTC Touch Pro
• MSM7200A 528MHz 90nm; HTC Magic, HTC Hero GSM, Motorola CLIQ, Motorola CLIQ XT, Motorola Backflip, Samsung i7500 Galaxy, T-Mobile Pulse UK

MSM7525

Basically the same as the MSM7200A, but with CDMA.

Popular phones using these processor;

MSM7525 528MHz 65nm; HTC Hero CDMA

MSM7227 and MSM7230

These devices are GSM cousins of the Snapdragon chips, for example they include OpenGL ES 2.0 engine and Adreno 200 included.

Popular phones using these processors:

• MSM7227 600MHz (ARMv6) ; Samsung Galaxy Gio, LG Optimus Me, Samsung Galaxy Fit, Samsung Galaxy Mini, Samsung Galaxy Ace, LG Optimus Chic, ZTE Blade, HTC Gratia, LG Optimus One P500 GSM, ViewSonic ViewPad 7, Samsung Galaxy Europa, Sony Ericsson Xperia X8 (SE Shakira), HTC Aria, Palm Pixi GSM, OlivePad VT-100
• MSM7230 800MHz-1000Mhz (ARMv7) ; Dell Smoke, Dell Flash, HTC Desire Z, Acer Liquid Metal, T-Mobile G2, Huawei Ideos X5,

MSM7627 and MSM7630

These devices are CDMA2000 cousins of the Snapdragon chips, for example they include OpenGL ES 2.0 engine and Adreno 200.

Popular phones using these processors:

• MSM7627 600MHz; LG Optimus One P500 CDMA, LG Cosmos Touch, LG VS740(Ally/Apex), Kyocera Zio, Huawei Ascend, Motorola Devour, Palm Pixi Plus, BlackBerry Curve 8500(8530 CDMA), Motorola ES400
• MSM7630 800MHz-1000Mhz; HTC Evo Shift 4G, HTC Merge