LG is throwing its hat again into the ring of smartphone makers with their own in-house made processors which at the moment has Apple, Huawei and Samsung as the pioneers. The company’s first processor dubbed NUCLUN didn’t get off a good start as it was plagued with overheating issues.
LG is already working on the successor to the NUCLUN, named the NUCLUN 2, the chipset is expected to take on the Exynos 7420 from fellow South Korean company, Samsung. At the moment, the Samsung Exynos 7420 powers flagship devices like the Samsung Galaxy Note5, S6 Edge+, S6 Edge, S6 and possibly the Meizu MX5 Pro Plus.
The LG NUCLUN 2 will be built using TSMC’s 16nm process and the processor is an octa-core one with four Cortex-A72 cores clocked at 2.1GHz and another four Cortex-A53 cores clocked lower at 1.5GHz, all in Big.LITTLE architecture.
The NUCLUN 2 also has an alleged Geekbench benchmark score to back things up; the chipset scored 5392 points in multi-threaded mode and 1796 points in single-threaded mode which obviously puts it ahead of the Exynos 7420 with 4970 points in multi-threaded mode and 1486 points in single-threaded mode.
There is no confirmations to all stated above and as with all rumours – it could either have some truth in it or is just all cooked up details. We will know more if there is any official announcement.
In Retrospect, the original LG NUCLUN (or LG Odin Nuclun) processor was used in the LG F490L Liger/LG G3 Screen which was released late last year. The processor is an octa-core one with four ARM Cortex-A15 cores clocked at 1.5GHz and another ARM Cortex-A7 cores clocked at 1.2GHz.
Source: GSMDome
