LG Wants to Develop their Own Mobile Processors to Get a Leg Up in Smartphone Race
Currently only two handset manufacturers also develop their own smartphone CPUs. One is Apple. The other is Samsung. Soon, however, LG hopes to count its name among them. Word out of their Seoul-based headquarters is that the company is in the very early stages of research and development on their own line of mobile processors as the company continues to struggle to make a name for itself in the smartphone industry.
The hope is that by controlling the supply chain, LG might not only reap extra profits by keeping the cost of parts lower, but also speed up the development and manufacturing process for upcoming handsets. As seen with Samsung, this can be a blessing and a curse. Samsung also makes the AMOLED displays used in most of their high-end handsets, and manufacturing problems have been a constant problem in keeping those displays in stock.
The story is LG has teamed up with semiconductor maker MtekVision, though the exact details have not been confirmed by anyone inside the company.
[via TaipeiTimes]