Sony has recently issued a denial of rumors to develop their own processors for mobile devices, and LG is about to create its processors Nuclun 2 teamed up with Intel.
DigiTimes this week published another story about the intentions of smartphone manufacturers to create their own processors. In particular, the Chinese company ZTE was able to enlist the financial support of the government to accelerate work in this direction. On the respective needs allocated about $ 73.8 million.
Huawei increasingly uses its own processor unit HiSilicon, replacing the product of Qualcomm and MediaTek. Xiaomi Company intends to develop processors in cooperation with Leadcore Technology, the first products based on them will be released in 2016. It is argued that even Lenovo is considering developing its own processor with ARM-architecture. Chinese developers in the face of Spreadtrum, Rockchip, HiSilicon and Allwinner actively enhance its capacity to design processors. In particular, Spreadtrum announced plans to introduce in 2016 products sold on the technology of 10-nm class using the FinFET. We explain that we are not talking about "pure" 10-nm process technology, but the technology standards in the range of "10 to 20 nm" - for example, the same 14-nm or 16-nm process technology.