LG is known to be working on its high power octacore Odin chipset in its research labs, with a new report now claiming that the SoC will enter the mass production phase soon. However, the Korean manufacturer is expected to play it safe and not use it with the upcoming G3 flagship, but keep it for another device later in the year.

The Odin is expected to be LG’s take on ARM’s big.LITTLE CPU architecture, much like the Samsung Exynos 5 chips. LG will reportedly try out the chip with low end devices first, followed by high end devices in the latter part of the year. This substantiates rumors which suggested that the upcoming LG flagship will feature the powerful Snapdragon 805 chipset.

Taiwanese manufacturer TSMC is believed to have been contracted to manufacture this chipset using its 28nm process. The chipset consists of four 2.2 GHz Cortex-A15 cores and four 1.7 GHz Cortex-A7 processing cores for low power tasks. It isn’t clear yet if LG will limit smartphones with the Odin chipset to non-LTE markets like Samsung does right now or launch it universally. (Valium)