Some of LG's brightest attractions at the moment are the dual-core
Optimus 2X and
Optimus 3D smartphones and similarly equipped
Optimus Pad tablet. The only problem with them? Those multicore chips are produced by NVIDIA for the 2X and Pad and Texas Instruments for the Optimus 3D, leaving LG a clear step behind its arch-nemesis Samsung who is producing
its own dual-core system-on-chip. So what else could LG possibly do but buy its own ARM license -- specifically for the Cortex-A9 design that is dominating today and the
Cortex-A15 with
Mali-T604 graphics that promises to rule the mobile world
from 2012 onwards -- and start churning out its own processors? The Korean company certainly has the budget, if not the manufacturing facilities, to produce such chips at volume, and we're all for seeing another competitor enter the ARM arena. This licensing deal also reminds us that the last fresh licensee to ARM's blueprints
was Microsoft -- so we can now look forward to
two industry giants bringing their technical expertise to this rapidly growing marketplace. See LG's full press release after the break.
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