New ST-Ericsson quad-core CPU clocks up to 2.5 GHz while needing 50% less power than its competitors

Unwired View writes, The fourth manufacturer to announce a new mobile chipset during CES 2013 is ST-Ericsson, which unveiled the NovaThor L8580. This follows events in which Nvidia publicized its Tegra 4 platform, Qualcomm announced the Snapdragon 800 and 600 series of chipsets, and Samsung took the world by storm with its eight-core (but not quite) Exynos 5 Octa processor. Now it’s ST-Ericsson’s turn to try and grab some attention from the world’s mobile device makers. And it may very well achieve that, since the L8580 is said to be the fastest mobile processor with LTE connectivity built-on onto the same…

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