The days of using third party SoCs are coming to an end for LG. The company announced this morning it has reached a licensing agreement for ARM’s Cortex processors and Mali GPU families, including but not limited to the Cortex-A15 MPCore and Cortex-A9 MPCore.
LG has officially stepped up their game. The company plans to load ARM processors across its range of devices: digital TV, set top boxes (STBs), mobile phones, smart grids and tablets. The latter of those devices has us a bit worried, seeing as Tegra 2 is the only Honeycomb certified chipset. As MobileTechWorld points out, using ARM processors in tablets puts LG in a similar situation as Samsung, who also uses its own SoCs.
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