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Mobile processors in phones this year have surpassed the computing power of a lot of computers from a decade ago. Here are the top 5 most powerful smartphone processors available/released in the market for 2014. It uses a 28nm HPM process and runs a pair of quad-core chips -- 4x Cortex-A15 + 4 x Cortex-A7 big.LITTLE. Released around the 2nd quarter of 2014, the Tegra K1 uses a 28nm HPM process and runs on ARM Cortex-A15 MPCore R3 plus a low power companion core. This chip uses a 20 nm HKMG process running a quad-core Cortex-A57+ quad-core Cortex-A53 (big.LITTLE with GTS) implementation. Perhaps the most popular among the mobile chipsets right now is the Snapdragon processor from Qualcomm. The Snapdragon 805 is based on 28nm HPm process and runs on a quad-core processor with each core running at 2.7GHz. Rounding up the list includes the Atom Z3580 quad-core processor at 2.3GHz with a GPU capable of crunching 136 GFLOPs as well as the Apple A8x with a 1.5GHz triple-core processor running at 1.5GHz. Read more in our articles including "5 of the Most Powerful Mobile processors of 2014" and "realme C100, C100i now official, specs and price in the Philippines".