Application processor or APU is a chip in tablet, smart phone and other consumer electronics to run an operating system and applications associated with operating system, it means application processor is responsible for the processing been done in the tablet and e-reader. It is also responsible to support other processing required to operate tablet and smart phones including graphic processing, memory management and coding decoding of multimedia. Implementation of application processor in tablets and smart phone make them more equivalent to computers as compare to early cell phones.
