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ST-Ericsson had only just unveiled its latest NovaThor chipsets last month at Mobile World Congress. However, a spokewoman for Ericsson told me that these new chipsets — namely the the L8540 and L8580 lines — are being immediately discontinued.

So they were so competitive and game changing that ST Micro decided to scrap them?

ST might have had a few interesting demos, but the real test is if it can meet all of the following:

1. Performance
2. Power
3. Cost
4. High volume manufacturing

Since the demos had primarily focused on the top-2, my guess is the bottom-2 may have had issues.