First details of LG Nuclun 2 soc appear online

The first details have surfaced of LG’s upcoming soc Nuclun 2. LG has the processor made on a 16nm finfet process and has eight cores built in, four of which on the Cortex A72 microarchitecture from ARM.

The four Cortex A72 cores have a maximum clock speed of 2.1GHz, according to information that an insider has put on the Chinese social network Weibo. Cortex A72 should be regarded as the successor to Cortex A57, the microarchitecture that Samsung and Qualcomm, among others, have used in their most recent socs.

LG wants to combine its soc with an Intel modem for connections to 2G, 3G and 4G networks, while nothing is known about the GPU that will be in it. The Nuclun 2 should go into mass production in one to one and a half years, so that the manufacturer can use it in devices from the autumn of 2016. TSMC must produce the socs on its 16nm finfet process.

Although the soc would be for high-end phones if it were in current devices, that will probably no longer be the case when it comes out. LG put its first soc, Nuclun, only in the G3 Screen, a midrange device from last year. Apart from the first Nuclun soc, LG has not yet designed any smartphone socs, but the company has been using its own processors in its televisions for some time.