Announced licensees of the new processor series include AMD, Broadcom, Calxeda, HiSilicon, Samsung and STMicroelectronics.

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Following the MediaPad 10 FHD quad-core tablet, Huawei's also starting to sell another device powered by its very own HiSilicon K3V2 (Hi3620) chip.

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This is no surprise considering the likes of Qualcomm ( Snapdragon 600 and 800), Huawei ( HiSilicon K3V2 Pro and K3V3), NVIDIA ( Tegra 4), AMD ( Temash and Kabini) and possibly Apple will be ordering more 28nm-based chipsets from the foundry throughout the year.

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First of all, Huawei will be joining Samsung at the octa-core Cortex-A15 party in the second half of this year, and given what Yu's told us earlier this week, our guess is that this will either be the HiSilicon K3V3 or a sister chipset, again manufactured by TSMC.

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