Instead, GPU drivers are only directly distributed to smartphone OEMs as part of a Board Support Package (BSP). Having no direct relationship with consumers, these mobile GPU makers have little incentive to provide the public with access to updated graphics drivers packages. Qualcomm is thus one step removed from the smartphone that ends up in the hands of consumers, while Arm is two steps removed. Instead, Qualcomm sells its GPUs to smartphone OEMs as part of a system-on-chip (SoC), while Arm licenses its GPU designs to silicon vendors like MediaTek which in turn design SoCs using those GPUs. You can’t build your own smartphone like you can a PC, so you’ll never directly give Qualcomm or Arm your money to buy a GPU. Unlike AMD and NVIDIA, Qualcomm and Arm, the makers of the two most popular lines of GPUs in Android devices, have no direct relationship with consumers. The challenges of updating GPU drivers on Android
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