droid maxx is powered by the proprietary motorola x8 system-on-chip. it includes a total of 8 cores with various functions: 2-core qualcomm snapdragon s4 pro applications processor clocked at 1.7 ghz, 4-core adreno 320 graphics processor, and 2 low-power cores: for natural language processing and for contextual awareness processing. the x8 system is designed to conserve power by utilizing low-power cores for the language and contextual processing.