ST-Ericsson will show a prototype smartphone with a 3 GHz processor

The exhibition MWC in Barcelona company ST-Ericsson will demonstrate a prototype smartphone platform NovaThor L8580, which is based eQuad processor with a clock speed of 3 GHz and support for LTE. This will be the "fastest" mobile processor from those submitted to date to the market. Chip made ​​on 28-nm FD-SOI process technology. According to the company, this model is a step forward in performance, clock speed and power consumption. It is reported that the processor is faster by 35%, graphics by 20%, which allows you to get in the mobile device processing speed as a desktop computer. Commercial version of the chipset NovaThor L8580 initially appears at a lower frequency, which is 2.5 GHz processor eQuad on the core ARM Cortex-A9, PowerVR SGX544 graphics card with a clock frequency of 600 MHz and a universal LTE modem. Declared support for 3GPP Release 10, LTE category 4, with download speeds of up to 150Mbps, LTE-FDD, LTE-TDD, HSPA +, GSM and TD-SCDMA in one chipset with VoLTE and HD voice. Total platform supports 17 different frequencies simultaneously. It is also noted that the power consumption is reduced by 35% compared with the same performance models. In the system takes a minimum consumption of only 0.6 V, which is 50% less than the 1 GHz processor in active rendering. The full collection is completed chip platform support Bluetooth, GNSS (GPS + GLONASS), FM, WLAN, WiFi Direct, Miracast and NFC.