This year, LG announced their very own in-house designed mobile SoC. The LG NUCLUN is a 32-bit octa-core chip having 4 x Cortex A15 and 4 x Cortex A7 cores in ARM big.LITTLE configuration. However, LG had to end up severely downclocking the cores in its chipset as it was running too hot. This in turn resulted in poor performance. LG had reportedly spent $179 million over a period of 2 years to develop NUCLUN.

The LG NUCLUN powers the LG G3 Screen, whose sales has suffered due to the problems being faced by the chipset. Perhaps the reason why LG encountered so many issues is because it is their first time developing a mobile SoC. The company is bound to make mistakes, but it will also learn from them and fix the issues in their next SoC. Or at least, we hope that happens.