Sony works on its own SoC for 2016

Rumors have gone back and forth regarding the disappearance of Sony's mobile division because they did not make enough profits to think about a promising future. Although after the latest data offered a few weeks ago with benefits collected, for the most part, thanks to camera sensors that are having so much popularity, it seems that the Japanese manufacturer is not going to think much about it to follow this path of creating components that can be included in their own devices, and sell them to many other manufacturers that arise wanting to create the definitive Android smartphone.

According to the Taiwanese publication Digitimes, Sony will enter part of that cast of manufacturers such as Apple, Samsung, Huawei and LG that design their own chips for mobile devices. With this said, it is not that it will be like that, because Digitimes already has its endorsement of misprints in its history, so we leave it in a rumor that we have to confirm in future appointments along these lines. Which does not surprise us either, that, due to the success of their sensors, they are thrown into the pool to create chips in order to sell them to those same manufacturers who buy their spectacular camera lenses.

Your own chip for your own smartphone

The report that comes from Digitimes, without mentioning any source, says that Sony plans on develop your own mobile SoC. When looking at the top smartphone makers of the moment in sales volume, most of them in the top five are designing their own chips. Apple designs its AX chips, Huawei the Kirin, while Samsung designs and manufactures its Exynos chips that are being used to demonstrate how well they know how to do things in their Galaxy S6 and other cast.

LG itself created its SoC called LG Nuclun which was itself a success, although perhaps not expected to face the rest of the chips high-end, although what does seem to have some resonance will be its next version Nuclun 2. This has been manufactured by Intel and TSMC, and which is supposed to go further in terms of performance.

Google, Sony ...

From the leak little more can be said, since it does not mention anything that we can wait on the first designed chip by Sony. Nor do we expect that we will see it in an Xperia device since this takes a long process that will begin to see the light a bit next year, if this publication is correct with this rumor, we leave it right there.

With this we also address Google's idea of design your own chip for mobile devices, and come on, surely that other major players will soon join as they are Xiaomi and some others that we know who are putting everything to not lose place in this difficult market that is becoming one of mobile devices.

Sony has that pillar in the camera sensors which is proving that they know how to make very good products, if it manages to at least approach the high-end of the manufacturers mentioned as Samsung or Apple, surely they will improve in profits and opt to offer very interesting alternatives in the form of new smartphones that lead sales all over the world. It is like something essential to add services and technologies that you are incorporating to enlarge the repertoire of products that you sell, either to millions of users or to many other manufacturers. What gets the gap between some is distancing themselves if they are not aware and lose steam as has happened with Microsoft itself.

We will wait to see if this news really has some truth and Sony surprises us with a chip for next year, while everything remains in a great rumor.