Leadcore Technology is a Chinese fabless semiconductor company that provides system-on-chip solutions for smartphones and tablets, specializing in the TD-SCDMA and TD-LTE network standards used in China and in other countries.
According to the Market Intelligence & Consulting Institute, Leadcore was the fourth largest integrated circuit design company in China by revenue in 2008. DigiTimes said that in Q2 2014 Leadcore was the sixth-largest supplier of smartphone application processors in China with a market share of 3% of all units, which represents unit shipments of about 3 million.
On May 26, 2017, Qualcomm (China) Holdings Co., Ltd., Beijing Jianguang Asset Management Co., Ltd., Leadcore Technology Co., Ltd. and Beijing Zhilu Asset Management Co., Ltd. jointly signed an agreement to establish a joint venture company - Lingsheng Technology (Guizhou) Ltd. (JLQ Technology). The joint venture will focus on the smartphone chipset business in China.
Product list
Smartphone/tablet processors
Model Number Appli-cation Fab CPU GPU Display resolution Memory interface Modem ReleasedISAμarchCoresFreq. (GHz)L2 cacheμarchFreq. (MHz) LC1810 Smart phone 40 nm ARMv7-A Cortex-A921.2 512 KB Mali-400 MP2300 Up to 1920x1080 400 MHz LPDDR2 2G/3G (GSM, GSM-DSDA, TD-HSPA+) LC1811 Up to 1280x800 LC1813 Cortex-A74400 LPDDR, LPDDR2, DDR3 2G/3G (GSM, GSM-DSDS, TD-HSPA) 2013 LC1913 Tablet1.4 LC1860 Smart phone 28 nm62.0 Mali-T628 MP2600 Up to 2K Dual-channel LPDDR3 4G (TD-LTE, LTE FDD Cat 4) 2014 LC1860C41.5 Up to 720p Single-channel 32-bit LPDDR2, LPDDR3 LC1960 Tablet62.0
The LC1810/1811 are an older generation platform supporting the Android 4.0 platform. For the camera interface, LC1810 has a 20M pixels ISP, the LC1811 an 8M pixels ISP.
The LC1813/1913 were released in 2013 and support Android 4.3. Both chips have a 13M pixels ISP. The LC1913 tablet processor has USB-OTG support as an extra feature.
The LC1860 and LC1960 with hexa-core CPU and LTE support were announced in 2014 and support Android 4.4. The LC1860 has a 20M pixels ISP. The LC1860C is a lower-end version of the LC1860 with quad-core CPU, lower GPU speed, single-channel memory interface and a 13M pixels ISP.
The company also offers feature phone processors, including the LC1712, manufactured at 55 nm, and the 65 nm L1808B.
See also
Allwinner Technology HiSilicon InfoTM MediaTek Nufront Qualcomm Rockchip Spreadtrum
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