Tuesday, February 25, 2014

drag2share: China's Allwinner also has an octa-core chip, touts powerful graphics

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2014/02/25/allwinner-ultraocta-a80-octa-core-powervr/

Samsung, MediaTek, Huawei and even Qualcomm are now in the octa-core SoC game, but there's always space for more. The latest member is China's Allwinner Technology, who's best known for making the chipsets inside many low-end devices. Much like most of its competitors, Allwinner's UltraOcta A80 silicon -- pictured above on a development board -- uses ARM's big.LITTLE heterogeneous multi-processing design, meaning it can simultaneously run on all eight cores -- four low-power Cortex-A7 and four high-end Cortex-A15. The chip also features Imagination Technologies' 64-core PowerVR G6230 GPU, which promises to deliver "a twofold increase in graphics" performance when compared to the PowerVR SGX544MP2 (as used by Allwinner's previous flagship SoC, the A31 series).

We'll spare you from all the nitty-gritty, but you can learn more in the source links below. Expect to see the UltraOcta A80 in affordable markets "in the next few months."

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Monday, February 24, 2014

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Friday, February 21, 2014

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Wednesday, February 19, 2014

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Friday, February 14, 2014

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