STE unveils NovaThor L8580 chipset with quad-core A9 CPU

10 January, 2013
Each core of four cores goes as high as 2.5 GHz, while the graphics are handled by PowerVR SGX544.

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  • AnonD-260
  • vIY
  • 10 Jan 2013

if it runs at 0.6V .. that is the key .. which means for the end consumer 5 hours of extra battery life 4G/3G networks woah ...

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    • wYM
    • 10 Jan 2013

    A real war!

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      • AnonD-77368
      • nyi
      • 10 Jan 2013

      HOOLLLYYY mother of Ghz!
      What do you do with all that power?! Please, don't tell me mobile gaming... It's very hard to play on small screens, I need at least 10 inch.

      Has Asus somehow patented their padphone? I really want to see more companies making a thing like theirs. Their padphone is expensive :((

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        • MQg
        • 10 Jan 2013

        AnonD-57609, 10 Jan 2013I had an Xperia U which come with st-Ericsson novathor u850... moreThen you had defective handset. My girlfriend has Xperia Sola (same chipset as U has) and her son has Xperia Neo. Sola is blazing fast compared to Neo.

          The exynos octa core chips can shoot 1080 videos at 60fps. Thats great.

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            • rqC
            • 10 Jan 2013

            I had an Xperia U which come with st-Ericsson novathor u8500 1ghz dual-core and it was very very slow compared with my current Sony Xperia neo wich sports a 1ghz qualcomm scorpio SINGLE core. ST-Ericsson chips are useless

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              • AnonD-57901
              • t}J
              • 10 Jan 2013

              When world is moved to octa core Cortex A-15 they have launched quad A-9.
              Let's see how it performs.