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ST Ericsson, creator of the Novathor chip powering some of the smartphones, is cutting down over 1,600 jobs and might probably close down due to lower demand for its chips. ST-Ericsson's Novathor chips have been powering a lot of Nokia's handsets back in 2011 and have been used by other phone manufacturers like Sony on their first batch of Xperia handsets. Back in January, ST Ericsson announced their own NovaThor L8580 Quad-core chip (which has four ARM Cortex A9 cores clocked at 2.5GHz, a PowerVR SGX544 GPU and integrated LTE) with succeeding reports they're pushing the clock speed to 3.0GHz. ST-Ericsson is a joint venture between Ericsson and ST-Microelectronics formed back in 2008. So the wait is over -- Sony Ericsson Philippines today launched two entry-level Android smartphones during the Sony Ericsson Expo in Megamall -- the Xperia X10 Mini and the Mini Pro. And when Sony Ericsson said it is the "world's smallest Android phone", they are somewhat right -- this phone is... The Sony Ericsson Expo starts today until Sunday at the Megatrade Hall 3, Building B, MegaMall. The 12-megapixel Sony Ericsson Idou previewed back in February during the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona last February has an official name -- the Satio. Read more in our articles including "ST-Ericsson closing down? Say bye to Novathor." and "The biggest changes are coming to Android Auto".