Project Ara processors to be made by…Toshiba?

[Guest Christian de Looper]

 

With Project Ara getting closer to its supposed release in 2015, many are wondering who will supply the parts for the devices. It turns out that the maker of processors for the device will be Toshiba, which is surprising considering the saturation of the market by the like of Qualcomm, MediaTek and Intel.

 

Toshiba will be providing three different processors for Google, for modules and for the phone itself. Reportedly, the partnership between the two companies started back in October 2013, resulting in the creation of chips that can “accurately control the flow of data and electrical signals between the modules and the phone itself.”

 

 

Ara devices will reportedly come as cheap as $50, though we do not know what kind of package that will get you. It now seems that Toshiba will be the only chipmaker for Project Ara, which defeats the purpose of true modularity a little. Only time will tell if that’s actually true.

 

Source: Nikkei

Via: PocketNow

 

 

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