Smartphone companies are increasingly seeking to replace Qualcomm’s Snapdragon series of processors with their own, homegrown chips. After Samsung — which recently announced the Exynos 7420 for its upcoming flagship phone — LG is also keen to duplicate the feat with its own signature chipset.
It’s not as if LG is a completely new entrant into the SoC manufacturer segment, it did manufacture and implement the NUCLUN System On Chips on a few of its devices such as the G3, but issues such as overheating among others caused low sales worldwide leading LG to minimize its use. While this did seem to dampen LG’s interest in using the NULCUN, it looks like LG is ready to continue its research into SoCs manufacture.
From what we heard recently, The South Korean manufacturer is preparing a brand new chip to rival the Snapdragon. Thought to be based on ARMv8, four Cortex-A72 and four Cortex-A53 will go into making this piece of silicon a processing marvel. Though reports are still coming in, TSMC -Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Limited, also known as Taiwan Semiconductor, which is the world’s largest dedicated independent semiconductor foundry is expected to manufacture it using the 20 nm technology.
Other rumors point to a Mali one GPU unit working in accordance with the Big-Little Architecture.
Though we are still uncertain as to its release date, speculations put it as somewhere near year end which is a bit strange since the SoC fraternity which sees daily evolution might well have moved on to chips with processing powers far beyond the current generation, be it Snapdragon 810, Exynos 7420 or LGs unnamed processing unit.
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