Spreadtrum Communications has announced that its quad-core LTE mobile chipset, the SC9830i, has been adopted by Samsung Electronics for the vendor's Galaxy Tab A7.0-series tablets.

Spreadtrum disclosed its SC9830i chips are now shipping in the Samsung Galaxy Tab A7.0-series, which has a 7-inch HD (1280 by 800 pixels) IPS display and comes with Android 5.1 Lollipop OS, and is available in Wi-Fi and LTE versions.

Samsung's Galaxy Tab A7.0-series tablets are powered by Spreadtrum's quad-core 1.5GHz LTE solution, which consists of a 28nm quad-core 1.5GHz TDD-LTE/LTE-FDD/WCDMA/HSPA(+) /GSM/GPRS SC9830i baseband chip, SR3593S RF chip, SC2723M power management IC and SC2331S 3-in-1 connectivity chip, according to Spreadtrum.

"We are very proud to partner with Samsung again with the launch of their new products based on our quad-core LTE chipsets," said Spreadtrum chairman and CEO Leo Li. "This time we are glad to see the first quad-core 28nm LTE Spreadtrum platform applied to Samsung tablets."