#NovaThor L8580

This year’s Mobile World Congress is said to be a momentous event for ST-Ericsson, the company behind the NovaThor chipset, as they are said to announce their first ever quad-core processor which is believed to clock in at blazing fast 3-gigahertz. NovaThor, the product of the joint venture between STMicroelectronics and Ericsson, isn’t exactly a popular choice for device manufacturers for the obvious reason that other providers have more competitive offerings either on performance or pricing. Dubbed as the NovaThor eQuad, ST-Ericsson’s upcoming SoC consists of four 28-nanometer Cortex—A9 cores which are put together using FD-SOI MOSFET (Fully Dispersed Silicon on Insulator, Metal Oxide Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor) technology, enabling to not only be fast but also power efficient. It’s going to be interesting to see how the new NovaThor processor will perform in the real world. ST-Ericsson has announced its latest mobile chipset with quad-core processors and low-power features - the NovaThor L8580. For starters, the NovaThor L8580 features an eQuad processor with four ARM Cortex A9 cores clocked at 2.5GHz, a POWERVR SGX544 GPU, integrated LTE FDD/TDD, HSPA+, TD-SCDMA, and EDGE modem, and the ability to run at a very low power at 0.6V. Read more in our articles including "ST-Ericsson to unveil a 3.0GHz quad-core SoC on MWC" and "ST-Ericsson unveils NovaThor L8580 quad-core SoC".