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Smartphones rely on two main chips -- an application processor, which oversees the phone's basic functions, and a baseband processor, which lets the phone communicate with other gadgets.

several other ARM chipmakers already have done, he said, Intel would likely merge both processors

Infineon unit makes chips for smartphones

Qualcomm obviously is a big winner in the 4S, with company now taking sole ownership of the baseband processor position with its MDM6610 device

Phone 4 baseband design win with Intel.

MDM6610 baseband processor

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Processors powered by ARM cores excel at it.

tablet also costs $10.75 to manufacture, raising the total production cost to $375.10.

Qualcomm, which supplies the MDM9600 baseband processor

wireless section costs $41.50 and accounts for 11.4 percent of the cost

IHS iSuppli,

5 dual-core processor is estimated to cost just $15

Score said the royalty rate had moved up to 1.1 percent to 1.2 percent on cores from the Cortex range

Sling Media Inc. is betting it's worth $249, the retail price for its Slingbox device. And for each Slingbox sold, Sling Media is investing $83.60 in combined Bill of Materials (BOM) and manufacturing costs

A $22 Texas Instruments Inc. TMS320DM641GNZ digital signal processor that performs video/imaging functions. A $7 Philips SAA7173 analog TV video/stereo decoder. A $6 Philips FQ1238 front-end module for the tuner. A $6 Micron Technology Inc. MT48LC4M32B2TG7 128Mbit SDRAM. A $4 Advanced Micro Devices Inc./Spansion S29JL064H90TAI00 64Mbit NOR flash memory.

Baseband processors and wireless chipsets

tracks radio component markets and supplier share

RF, mixed-signal and digital radio ICs and discretes from cellular handsets, Wi-Fi and other major wireless markets

'Intel feels compelled to build out its mobile product suite, including ARM baseband processors for handsets, smartphones, tablets, and other mobile devices

CellMetric, Cisco, Digital TV Labs, Humax, NXP Semiconductors, Panasonic, ProTelevision Technologies, Screen Service, SIDSA, Sony, ST Microelectronics an