This processor gifted childhood to hundreds of tekkix residents

In the photo - Motorola Neptune LTE, the processor of the most famous and legendary Motorola phone models.

Developed in 2003, Neptune LTE combined in one chip an ARM7TDMI core operating at a frequency of 54MHz, a custom-designed DSP coprocessor, 256 kilobytes of RAM, and nearly 2 megabytes of flash memory, as well as peripheral bus controllers. At the time of its release, the chipset was considered advanced in the budget segment, however, it lagged behind Texas Instruments processors and, a year later, Infineon.

Due to the outdated ARM7TDMI core from 1994, the Neptune LTE began to lose relevance as early as 2005 and ultimately fell into the ultra-budget category, on par with chipset from Analog Devices (LG, Pantech, Hyundai), Sysol, and Infineon E-Gold. And it was this processor that became the heart of the budget C380, the top E398, and the relatively flagship Razr V3, even despite its reputation as a slowpoke!