After the nVidia Tegra 4 , with the Samsung Exynos 5 Octa and Qualcomm with rows Snapdragon 600 and 800 was the turn of ST-Ericsson to present its own proposal with reference to the chipset will see this year.
To Novathor L8580 chipset of ST-Ericsson for mid-range devices, has four processors Cortex-A9 architecture or eQuad like to call them, clocked at 2.5 GHz and the graphics takes the PowerVR SGX544 we can find the TI OMAP 4470 which is in tablets like the Kindle Fire HD 09/08 .
To Novathor L8580 chipset is able to reach to consume up to 0.6 V, too four cores are clocked at 2.5 GHz, so that it can raise the autonomy of the device involves.
Distinctive features of the L8580 we can play 1080p video (H264 HP, VC-1, MPEG-4) and support screen resolution up to WUXGA (one thousand nine hundred twenty one thousand two hundred pixels ×). Regarding the cameras can support up to 20 Megapixel camera key and 5 Megapixel front camera for video calling. In addition there are the chipset and 3D capabilities such as playing and recording video.
In connectivity will find integrated LTE and HSPA +, TD-SCDMA, EDGE, unlike the Tegra 4 who need extra support modem for LTE. Moreover, in the area of connectivity have WiFi, Bluetooth, GPS and GLONASS, FM radio and NFC. Of course there is the microUSB 2.0, while impression and make selection for output HDMI.
Of course, in an era when architecture Cortex A-15 is upon us, and already exists in Nexus 10 and the Chromebook from Samsung, the company would have liked to have followed this path, but since the target-group is the mid-range class maybe and see impressive results at low cost.
