Sensor hub

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A sensor hub is a microcontroller unit/coprocessor/DSP set that helps to integrate data from different sensors and process them. [1] This technology can help off-load these jobs from a product's main central processing unit, thus saving battery consumption [2] and providing a performance improvement. [3]

Intel has the Intel Integrated Sensor Hub. Starting from Cherrytrail and Haswell, many Intel processors offers on package sensor hub. The Samsung Galaxy Note II is the first smart phone with a sensor hub, which was launched in 2012.

Examples

Some devices with Snapdragon 800 series chips, including HTC One (M8), Sony Xperia Z1, LG G2, etc., have a sensor hub, the Qualcomm Snapdragon Sensor Core, [4] and all HiSilicon Kirin 920 devices have sensor hub embedded in the chipset with its successor Kirin 925 integrated an i3 chip with same function into it. [5] Some other devices that are not using these chips but with a sensor hub integrated are listed below:

BrandsProductChips
Apple Apple iPhone 5s Apple M7 co-processor with Apple A7 SoC
(NXP LPC18A1) [6]
Apple iPad Air
iPad Mini (2nd generation)
Apple iPhone 6 / 6 Plus Apple M8 on Apple A8 SoC
iPad Air 2 Apple M8 on Apple A8X SoC
Apple iPhone 6s / 6s Plus Apple M9 on Apple A9 SoC
iPad Pro Apple M9 on Apple A9X SoC
Apple iPhone 7 / 7 Plus Apple M10 on Apple A10 Fusion SoC
Apple Watch Apple S1 SiP
Apple Watch Series 2 Apple S2 SiP
Google Nexus 6P Android Sensor Hub
Nexus 5X
Pixel CHRE V2 with GPS/Wi-Fi/BT
Pixel XL
Meizu Meizu MX3 Atmel AVR UC3L microcontroller [7] [8]
Microsoft Microsoft Surface Atmel's sensor hub [9]
Motorola Motorola Droid Ultra Motorola X8 Mobile Computing System [10]
including TI MSP430 and TI C55x [11]
Motorola Droid Maxx
Motorola Droid Mini
Motorola Moto X
Motorola Moto E 2nd Gen
Motorola Moto G 3rd Gen
OnePlus OnePlus 5 [12]
OnePlus 5T
Samsung Samsung Galaxy Note2 Atmel AVR UC3L microcontroller [13]
Samsung Galaxy S4 Atmel AVR microcontroller-based sensor hub solution [14]

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