Lenovo might make its own mobile processors

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 04/02/2013 08:02 AM | source: | 3 comment(s)

EE Times heard that Lenovo plans to get into the chip design business. The company has maintained a small IC design team of about 10 people over the last decade, but now plans to expand this team to about 100 engineers by the middle of the year to develop chip for smartphones and tablets. Lenovo will be hiring 40 engineers in Shenzhen area and 60 in Beijing, according to the source, who asked to remain anonymous. Lenovo, based in Beijing, did not immediately respond to questions about these plans.

This initiative appears to be driven by the company’s desire to control its own destiny in smartphones and tablets--a la HiSilicon at Huawei. (HiSilicon is a chip division of Huawei.)

tsunami231
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#4568510 Posted on: 04/03/2013 12:30 AM

EE Times heard that Lenovo plans to get into the chip design business. The company has maintained a small IC design team of about 10 people over the last decade, but now plans to expand this team to a...

Lenovo might make its own mobile processors

just what we need more CPU makers so its that much fun for dev's to use all the power of each chips different architecture Unified Architecture for all CPU and GPU will solve so many problems

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#4568521 Posted on: 04/03/2013 12:47 AM

A single unified architecture would be bad for consumers. With a single unified architecture, companies would go bankrupt as there'd be no need for multiple companies producing the exact same chips. The remaining company, would be able to charge whatever price they want so long as the products using the chips still sell. And then we'd see that 1 remaining company facing anti-competitive and anti-trust charges.....

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#4568526 Posted on: 04/03/2013 12:59 AM

West better start getting used to. China will not be assembly line forever.
I would not be surprised if this directive came straight from CPC/Politburo.

Check this out:

http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/2301715

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