CEVA DSPs and the Tale of Two Chip Underdogs from China
May 26, 2015
Leadcore Technology Co. Ltd, a subsidiary of Datang Group, is a silicon success story from China. It recently made waves by snatching the baseband socket from Qualcomm in Xiaomi's sub-$100 LTE smartphone Redmi 2A. Leadcore's L1860C chipset included quad-core 1.5GHz CPU and Mali-T628MP2 GPU from ARM and LTE modem from CEVA Inc.
What happened next? Xiaomi snatched Leadcore as a silicon partner to go vertical like smartphone rivals Apple, Huawei and Samsung. Marshal Cheng, a senior executive at Leadcore, recently spoke to EE Times to share the details of how the fabless chipmaker will collaborate with Xiaomi in developing customized processors.
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