Toshiba has announced that it will offer their Google processors which are to be used in the first device models to emerge from the Project Ara.
According to a Japanese Nikkei newspaper, Toshiba is going to make available to Google three different types of processors, which can be used in both modules and on the phone itself.
That is, the agreement concerns both processors that will constitute the base of the final device, as well as processors that will undertake the interconnection and data transfer between the various modules that will make up the device.
Processor sample shipments will begin next fall, while mass partreatment αναμένεται να ξεκινήσει στις αρχές του επόμενου έτους. Η Toshiba θα αποτελέσει τον «προτιμώμενο» προμηθευτή της Google, στην αρχή αυτής της procedureand when the production is finalized it will become the "main" supplier.
Perhaps this wording implies that Toshiba will be the manufacturer that will offer processors on models from Google, and there will be a choice of processors from other manufacturers.
One of the most interesting points of the publication is the price at which the Project Ara device set begins, which is determined in 50 dollars, but does not specify what this proposal will contain.
It is worth noting that Project Ara is about Google's idea of building a phone from different modules that the user chooses and assembles based on his particular needs. Each phone, depending on its size, will consist of five to ten alternative modules.
