Sony could soon join Apple, Samsung, Huawei, and LG in developing its own smartphone chips

Forget mixed signals, Sony is reportedly as serious as it’s ever been about growing smartphone sales and profitability, despite recently closing e-shop in Europe, and posting a quarterly mobile loss for the umpteenth consecutive time.If the Xperia Z5 trio can’t put ...

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LG’s in-house Nuclun 2 SoC likely pushed to 2016 for advanced LTE-A modem integration

After failing miserably at cutting its reliance on semiconductor giant Qualcomm, and entering a new market niche that arch-rival Samsung wants to dominate before long, LG simply brushed off the first-gen Nuclun’s whiff of defeat, and got back to the drawing board.It’s worth pointing out the Korean device manufacturer’s rookie SoC effort was always deemed a limited experiment, which is why it only powered

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Rumored LG NUCLUN 2 processor to better Samsung’s Exynos offerings

Even though Qualcomm has done a very good job at innovating in the mobile processor business, it seems that its own partners want a piece of the pie. Samsung is one of the first with its Exynos processors, but we’ve also seen Apple and Huawei follow the trend as well. LG gave it a try in the past and didn’t succeed at all due to overheating, but it seems that things that it won’t give up.Today we find some ...

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LG’s first SoC effort getting lukewarm reception

For certain manufacturers of mobile devices, having your own SoC at the heart of your products, rather than some off-the-shelf component, is a big deal: Apple’s got its A-series of chips, just like Samsung has its Exynos. And for the longest time we’d been talking about LG’s efforts to join them at the table with some silicon of its own. It took the better part of two years for this component to materialize, but this fall we finally saw the fruits of LG’s hard work pay off

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LG G3 Screen announced with new NUCLUN octa-core processor

LG tonight has come out of almost nowhere with the release of a brand new processor dubbed NUCLUN, the company’s first mobile processor with both an eight-core processor and LTE Cat. 6 support, supposedly maximizing performance and minimizing the energy toll. The processor will see its first placement in a smartphone with the launch of the LG G3 Screen.The NUCLUN processor (as LG tells us, it’s pronounced “NOO-klun”) has ARM’s big.LITTLE technology, allowing for greater overall efficiency. There are four ARM Cortex A15 1.5 GHz cores, and four ARM Cortex A7 ...

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