Native name | 联芯科技有限公司 |
|---|---|
| Industry | Fabless semiconductors |
| Headquarters | , China |
Number of employees | 1,000+[1] |
| Parent | Datang Telecom Technology |
| Website | www |
Leadcore Technology is a Chinesefablesssemiconductor company that providessystem-on-chip solutions forsmartphones andtablets, specializing in theTD-SCDMA andTD-LTE network standards used in China and in other countries.[1][2]
According to the Market Intelligence & Consulting Institute, Leadcore was the fourth largestintegrated circuit design company in China by revenue in 2008.[3]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.[4]
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.
| Model Number | Appli-cation | Fab | CPU | GPU | Display resolution | Memory interface | Modem | Released | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ISA | μarch | Cores | Freq. (GHz) | L2 cache | μarch | Freq. (MHz) | |||||||
| LC1810[5] | Smart phone | 40 nm | ARMv7-A | Cortex-A9 | 2 | 1.2 | 512 KB | Mali-400 MP2[6] | 300 | Up to 1920x1080 | 400 MHz LPDDR2 | 2G/3G (GSM, GSM-DSDA, TD-HSPA+) | |
| LC1811[7] | Up to 1280x800 | ||||||||||||
| LC1813[8][9] | Cortex-A7 | 4 | ? | 400 | LPDDR, LPDDR2, DDR3 | 2G/3G (GSM, GSM-DSDS, TD-HSPA) | 2013 | ||||||
| LC1913[10] | Tablet | 1.4 | ? | ||||||||||
| LC1860[11][12] | Smart phone | 28 nm | 6 | 2.0 | ? | Mali-T628 MP2[6] | 600 | Up to 2K | Dual-channel LPDDR3 | 4G (TD-LTE, LTE FDD Cat 4) | 2014 | ||
| LC1860C[13] | 4 | 1.5 | ? | Up to 720p | Single-channel 32-bit LPDDR2, LPDDR3 | ||||||||
| LC1960[11] | Tablet | 6 | 2.0 | ? | ? | ? | |||||||
The LC1810/1811 are an older generation platform supporting theAndroid 4.0 platform. For the camera interface, LC1810 has a 20M pixels ISP, the LC1811 an 8M pixels ISP.[9]
The LC1813/1913 were released in 2013 and support Android 4.3.[8][10] Both chips have a 13M pixels ISP. The LC1913 tablet processor has USB-OTG support as an extra feature.[9]
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.[12] 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.[13]
The company also offersfeature phone processors, including the LC1712, manufactured at 55 nm,[14] and the 65 nm L1808B.[15]