14 DAY TRIAL // Countless things have been said about Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 810 platform ever since rumors started spreading around about the chip’s pesky overheating issues.
Most notably, it became apparent that one of Qualcomm’s most important customers, Samsung, will be renouncing the company’s services and won’t be putting the Snapdragon 810 inside its upcoming Galaxy S6.
Instead, the Korean tech giant will be relying on its own Exynos 7420 and the preliminary test results show us the chip should be expected to perform quite admirably.
Well, it appears the Snapdragon 810 will soon be faced with more competition coming from an unexpected direction.
LG wants to build a new octa-core chip
LG will be missing the fuss around MWC 2015 because it plans on revealing its next-in-line flagship, the G4, a month later, to avoid clashing with the Samsung Galaxy S6 and HTC One M9.
But as some of you might know, the Korean company has also tried its hand at making its own silicone. The NUCLUN chipset has made it into some of its handsets, most notably the LG G3 Screen, but was ultimately cast out of the picture due to severe overheating issues.
So that’s why there aren’t a lot of NUCLUN smartphones around. LG has apparently given up hope on the NUCLUN, but that doesn’t mean the company is out of the silicone-making business for good.
According to recent Asian reports (as spotted at G for Games), LG is cooking up a Snapdragon 810 competitor in its development labs, quite similar to Samsung’s newest Exynos platform.
The new octa-core chip will be based on a 20nm process
The information claims LG is combining four Cortex-A72 cores and four Cortex-A53 inside their upcoming ARMv8-based chipset, which is probably build on the big.LITTLE chip architecture.
We’re not given any info about the GPU locked inside the LG system-on-chip, but most chances are that it’s going to be of the Mali-T880 variety.
LG is likely going to work with TSMC for the manufacturing of the new chip, which utilizes 20nm technology.
The report goes on to mention that the new SoC will probably make its way into devices by the end of 2015, so we won’t see it power the upcoming LG G4. Luckily, Qualcomm will get to ship Snapdragon 810 chips to LG this spring.
Interestingly enough, we’re also told that LG had previously abandoned its quest of building a Snapdragon 810 alternative, due to overheating problems.
