NovaThor

The Snowball is a single-board computer in the Nano-ITX form factor using the A9500 version of the NovaThor SoC.

NovaThor was a platform consisting of integrated System on Chips (SoC) and modems for smartphones and tablets developed by ST-Ericsson, a 50/50 joint venture of Ericsson and STMicroelectronics established on February 3, 2009. ST-Ericsson also sold the SoCs (Nova) and the modems (Thor) separately.[1][2] The application processor portion of the system was the successor of the previous Nomadik line from STMicroelectronics.

  1. ^ NOVA TM - Highest performance application processors Archived 2012-02-28 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ Clarke, Peter (2011-02-16). "ST-Ericsson sets out 'NovaThor' roadmap". EETimes.