Spreadtrum Communications, the China-based mobile phone chipset supplier, has announced the commercial availability of its dual-core 1.2GHz chipsets for TD-SCDMA (SC8825) and EDGE (SC6825).
The chips are based on a dual-core 1.2GHz Cortex-A5 core processor, a dual-core Mali 400 graphics processor with multimedia and hardware accelerators.
Spreadtrum's SC8825 chip supports dual-mode TD-SCDMA/HSPA & EDGE/GPRS/GSM and the SC6825 chip supports EDGE/GPRS/GSM. Both chipsets are pin-to-pin compatible and are further paired with a single-chip mutimode RF transceiver for a high level of integration.
Other features of Spreadtrum's SC8825 and SC6825 chipsets include support for HD 1280x720 LCD display, H.264 720p video playback, up to 8 megapixel RGB camera and dual-SIM, dual-standby capability.
The chipsets ship with turnkey Android and systems software, reducing the engineering time and resources required by handset makers to bring devices to market. Also with reference implementations available for both 4-layer and 6-layer PCB layouts.
The SC8825 and SC6825 are commercially available now. The chipsets have already been incorporated by leading China handset makers into smartphone models that are expected to ship commercially during 2Q 2013.
