Google's Project Ara smartphone which is
expected to be unveiled in 2015, will let users build their own
smartphones and customize them. Now according to Nikkei, Toshiba is
preparing three types of processors for the device, which will be used
in the modules as well as within the smartphone.
According to Android Authority, the main
processor in Toshiba’s product line would be the company’s TX series of
microcontrollers, that are based on ARM’s low-power Cortex M3 and M0
designs. Currently, Toshiba doesn’t have a chip that offers the type of
performance that comes from a Cortex-A powered Qualcomm or Samsung chips
and will provide essential processing components on the basic device,
instead of the main CPU.
Toshiba may also offer a range of integrated circuits, DSP, smaller 8-bit microcontrollers, as well as its own CMOS image sensors, that could be used in various modules of Project Ara.
It seems that, Toshiba began working with Google on Project Ara in
October 2013, and “was approved as a preferred supplier for this line,
the only Japanese company to be given that status.” Nikkei states that
the company will become the “sole chipmaker for the phone about a year
after its rollout.”
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