Upcoming Sony Ericsson LT22i (Nypon) to use ST-Ericsson NovaThor U8500 chipset?

well this is ironic, once the merger is off we started seeing ericsson’s chips… ummm why did that not happen that last two years?

you mean A9540. I believe it will be the best dual-core chip, but it is not released yet. however, I really wish they jump to the quad-core and just skip the dual-core. most companies are already working on quad-core phones which will be released early next year, just at the same time as the next high-end SE phone, and if the released it with dual-core, it will fail. but if they used the A9540 chip, it might survive a bit.

A9540 could be in upper list but not top because Exynos 4212 from Samsung is way ahead of it since A9540 is manufactured at 32nm same as Exynos 4212 but with different GPU Samsung use Mali400MP and ST-Ericsson instead choose lower only Mali400 which mean only single core.

BTW, I think SONY will need chipset platform designer to fully compete with Samsung in coming years and Ericsson going to lay off unprofit businesses, should SONY considered buy another half share in ST-Ericsson?

Disappointing, they should have sticked with Qualcomm (they could use S3 early next year and S4 by the end of the year). Sure it is better than the S2 they use now, but the Galaxy2 used already 2xA9 + Mali400MP4 half a year ago and SE will use a single core Mali400 next year? I hope they will use something beefier for the high end models.

i don’t know… if it’s true that hardware acceleration is turned off for the videos above, the processor’s doing a rather good job compensating. i’m particularly amazed by how smooth panning/zooming the BBC news page is, never thought that was possible without the GPU intervening. and yeah SGS2 will say it’s old trick but it also proved how good the Mali is. when it’s turned on on this device, well performance can only skyrocket.

i’ll reserve my final judgement until i’ve seen more direct comparisons between qualcomm, samsung, nvidia and st-ericsson chips on retail devices.

oh btw, it’s a dual-core chip demonstrated above, not solo-core.

i think they would have benefited even more had they used their own product inside there own product when they were one product.

guys don’t mix up sony-ericsson (joint venture between sony and ericsson and now completely own by sony I think) with ST-Ericsson (joint venture between STMicroelectronics and Ericsson) with Ericsson itself

ST-Ericsson U8500 platform is already on the market and it has shown very good performances and power consumption especially if compared to qualcomm equivalent chipsets.

U8500 Cortex-A9 1GHz dual core implementation is much better than Qualcomm’s 1.2GHZ (they’ve put the cores async vs the L2 so they can reach higher frequency but at very high latency expense)

you’re right actually. well apparently st-ericsson is quite new… this could be their first batch of wafers for smartphones, not sure. http://www.stericsson.com/about/General_Information.jsp

i don’t know much about ST-Ericsson except they are making profit and lot’s of it.   perhaps ST- ericsson should have merged with sony then… regardless i guess keeping some some sweedish workers is getting them the deals, sadly it is happening 10 years after SE had started making phone together.  

Qualcomm S3 is sick throw it away!

Qualcomm sucks balls.

Really? I personally don’t see how they will compete one is a phone the other is a dedicated portable gaming system.

U9540 has two Cortex A9 cores running at 1.85 GHz. Graphics performance will be
improved by a factor of nearly three (New Imagination SGX544 Graphic ， so, no mali anymore

That’s easy: There are companies Sony (makes consumer electronics, movies, music, etc), Ericsson (makes telco equipment) and ST Micro (designs and fabs chips). There is a joint venture* between Sony and Ericsson, named, Sony Ericsson (who would have guessed?), that makes phones. There is another JV between Ericsson and ST Micro, that follows the same naming convention – ST-Ericsson. It makes SoCs for use in phones.

[*] – Joint Venture is a company, that it shared between its founding partners. Basically the partners bring know-how from their business, found a company together and produce someting. in S-E case, Sony brought it’s CE knowledge and Ericsson its telco knowledge.

Is that the only thing you know?

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/19/stericsson-results-idUSL5E7LJ42B20111019