Category: Chip provider

Rockchip RK3399 ready for Mass Production for Tablets and VR with Dual-USB Type-C

Posted by – June 9, 2016

Rockchip RK3399 dual-core ARM Cortex-A72 with quad-core ARM Cortex-A53 big.LITTLE at 28nm with ARM Mali-T864 GPU is ready for mass production, here showing an ultra-slim tablet, featuring dual USB Type-C for charging, for data and display output. Rockchip also shows their high performance VR solution ready for mass production based on RK3399, Chromebooks, Windows 10, Set-top-boxes, Robots and more are probably to come.

$100 Sunco 360degree Actions Camera on NTK96660, 1080P@30fps, Waterproof, WiFi

Posted by – June 8, 2016

Sunco shows the real 4K Actions camera, 360degree actions cameras on Computex 2016.
Sunco S042 is the waterproof 360degree actions camera powered by Novatek NTK96660, support 4K@24fps H.264 video recording at 360*220 degree, it features with 1.5’’ LCD touch screen, support 30meters depth water-proof with WiFi, with build-in micro-SD card up to 64GB, 1100mAh battery life up to 2 hours, Bulk price at $100 for 1000pcs MOQ.
Sunco S091 is powered by Ambarella A12, support 4K@30fps video recording in Sunco’s private tooling, support bluetooth selfie stick, bulk price at $100 for 1000pcs order.
Sunco also shows the 360degree camera powered Allwinner V3, bulk price at $61 for 1000pcs order.

You can contact Sunco here: (Let them know if you watch this video)
Jason, Sales Manager
Mobile:+86-139 0298 6423
Tel:+86-755 8374 8050
manager@suncohk.com
Skype: suncosales001
http://www.suncohk.com

TechNexion ARM industrial modules, NXP i.MX7D dual-core ARM Cortex-A7 with ARM Cortex-M4


TechNexion is a Taiwanese company under European Management with own manufacturing facilities in Taipei, Taiwan. Florian Wohlrab, Marketing manager at TechNexion shows us around their booth at COMPUTEX 2016. The first thing to see is their tiny Modules which pack an ARM based NXP i.MX6/7 CPU (UltraLite/Solo/DualLite/Dual/Quad) with RAM, Memory and WiFi on just 36mm x 40mm. They are also the only one running a NXP i.MX7 live demo at their booth. The NXP i.MX7D is with 2x Cortex-A7 and a Cortex-M4 this a tiny, ultralow power, that can be used for vending machines, industrial applications or generic headless systems. TechNexion is also committed to the open source EDM standard for ARM Modules. Their boards are fit for Digital Signage, rugged industrial Applications and many more. Technexion can scale up to the NXP i.MX6 QUAD Plus, which will be available shortly. They also have some cool ARM bassed systems like their BoxPC the TEK Series. This Box PC’s have MiniPCIe slots with SIM-Card holder inside and also M.2 Slots for memory upgrade. Technexion also supports USB Type-C and for automation a VGA connector as well a HDMI to fit it for Digital Signage as well. Inside is a modular system which allows you to switch e.g. Power input between 12V/24V/10~30V/PoE (Power over Ethernet). TechNexion HMI series ranges from 7” to 10” and 15” again with NXP processors. All the Software is freely available on their website with no need to register.

You can Contact TechNexion here: sales@technexion.com
TechNexion Website: http://www.TechNexion.com

Microsoft Keynote: Hololens “open to partners” at Computex 2016

Posted by – June 3, 2016

Microsoft is trying to launch “the next generation” of Windows as a Holographic world, augmenting the world we already know, with computer graphics, using their system for headmounted holographic lenses, with the Hololens that also has sensors to measure distance of things in front of you, and in a specific area of your field of view it can try to position augmented graphics on top of your environment. Now Microsoft invites hardware partners in Taiwan, in Asia and in the world, to sign up with them to develop mass market Hololens based devices, hopefully to be sold at below the $3000 cost of the Microsoft Hololens development kit.

AOC Remix OS All-in-one, 24″ and 32″ 1080p

Posted by – June 2, 2016

AOC is a major monitor display manufacturer, they are partnering with Jide to sell the AmLogic S905 quad-core 64bit ARM Cortex-A53 based All-in-one PC, the price will be “not much more than the regular price of the monitor itself”. It includes 4 USB ports, HDMI, Gigabit Ethernet, Audio mini-jack input and output. The HDMI port is an input so one can use the monitor to run any external PC or Set-top-box. There is a switch button on the back to go back and forward between the HDMI input and the built-in Remix OS experience. This is an interview with Ben, one of the co-founders of Jide, about this product and about the actual status of Remix OS in the industry and how Jide is striving to be at the forefront of using Android for productivity.

Cavium ThunderX2, 54-core 3Ghz 14nm ARM Server Processor

Posted by – May 31, 2016

ThunderX2 is Cavium’s Second generation ARM Server Processor product family providing one of the fastest 64bit ARMv8 Data Center & Cloud Processor, featuring high integration and high SoC performance on 14 Finfet process. With high performance custom fully out-of-order (OOO) cores, single and dual socket configurations, very high memory bandwidth, large memory capacity, integrated hardware accelerators, fully virtualized core and IO, scalable Ethernet fabric and feature rich I/O’s supporting 25Gbps. The ThunderX2 family includes multiple Workload Optimized SKUs that enable servers & appliances that are optimized for compute, storage, network and secure compute workloads in the cloud. The ThunderX2 processor family is fully compliant with ARMv8 architecture specifications as well as ARM’s SBSA. ThunderX2 scales up to 54 cores with up to 3.0 GHz core frequency, fully cache coherent across dual sockets using Cavium Coherent Processor Interconnect (CCPI™) offering the largest integrated I/O capacity with 100s of Gigabits of I/O bandwidth using integrated 25Gbps SerDes, Six DDR4 72 bit memory controllers capable of supporting 3200 MHz memories with 1+TB of memory in a dual socket configuration, Hundreds of integrated hardware accelerators for security, storage, networking and virtualization applications, Fabric for interconnectivity of nodes supporting SLA enforcements with awareness and policy enforcement for virtual networks, Virtualization everywhere with Cavium virtSOC technology – Full system level low latency virtualization solution from core to I/O. Support for PCIe Gen3 x16 along with integrated 10/25/40/50/100GbE and SATAv3 ports and more.

Unspoken VR Game on Oculus Rift

Posted by – May 31, 2016

Unspoken is a new Oculus Rift game the video-games company Insomniac is developing, integrating prototype VR controllers by Oculus Rift where one hand can hold a shield with the left hand and throw fireballs with the right hand. Filmed in 4K using Sony AX53

Nvidia GTX 1080 powered HTC Vive VR

Posted by – May 31, 2016

Nvidia is showing their best VR experience powered by 3 Nvidia GTX 1080 GPUs (costing $700 each) with a powerful and expensive gaming Intel desktop PC running Nvidia’s Funhouse VR game with impressive graphics rendered by 1 GTX1080 GPU for each eye and a third GTX 1080 calculating all the physics in the game, experienced with the amazing $800 HTC Vive with its amazing controllers all tracked in the room using IR. The GTX1080 is the world’s most powerful consumer PC GPU. Filmed in 4K using Sony AX53

Ceph Cluster Storage Appliance ARM Micro Server by Ambedded

Posted by – May 31, 2016

Ambedded provides an ARM Micro Server solution for Software Defined Storage, distributed Cloud Storage/Computing integrated to lower the cost of energy, hardware and management for datacenter and enterprise. Ambedded’s architecture uses one Marvell Armada 385 Dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 based micro server, 2GB RAM, 2.5Gbit Ethernet, 6Gbit/s SATA, 8GB Flash for each hard drive which enables unlimited scalability to scale out compute power, network bandwidth and storage capacity. Ambedded’s software defined storage solution is supported by Ceph and GlusterFS to offer unified scale out storage solution for object storage, block storage and file sharing system. Ambedded’s ARM microserver product can also potentially to be used for various distributed applications such as web service, content delivery, NoSQL and big data analysis. Filmed in 4K using Sony AX53

$20 Red Bear BLE Nano development board uses ARM mbed and Device Cloud Connector


At the ARM booth at Computex 2016, Shenzhen based Red Bear presents their $20 BLE Nano development board, the world’s smallest Bluetooth Low Energy development board using a Nordic Semiconductor nRF51822 16Mhz ARM Cortex-M0 SoC with 32KB RAM, 256KB Flash that supports BLE Central and BLE Peripheral roles, supports voltage from 1.8V to 3.3V and that work’s with their free Android or iOS app. ARM IoT Business Unit Marketing Engineer Neil Tan also shows his project to make a Strength Enhancing Exoskeleton developed with ARM mbed on an STM32F401 ARM Cortex-M4 based development board. Filmed in 4K using Sony AX53

Job Offer: Allwinner International Marketing, Allwinner International TV Box Sales

Posted by – May 30, 2016
Category: Allwinner, Computex

Allwinner is seeking to hire an International digital marketing specialist, and an international sales for their growing TV Box CPU products line. Interested applicants can submit their application to work with Allwinner at HR@allwinnertech.com
The digital marketing job at Allwinner features:
1. Responsibility for Allwinner’s overall vision for online marketing, social media, community advocacy, strategy, and delivery;
2, Responsibility for overall strategic marketing plans for Allwinner in overseas market;
3, Write marketing content for company products (to be technically fluent in English is important);
4, Edit English marketing copy as needed from colleagues;
5, Attend domestic China and overseas product exhibitions as needed.
Requirement
1, Fluent or Native English;
2, High quality English writing ability;
3, Candidates with at least 1-2 years of international marketing experience preferred, electronics background is a plus;
4, Degree in business-related field like marketing, communications, economics, finance preferred but not necessary. Liberal arts backgrounds also a plus;
5, Moderate Chinese ability preferred, the better you are the more it will help your work, but it is not mandatory.
6, The applicant would like to live in Zhuhai, (a seaside city close to Macau, 1 hour by car or by ferry boat from Shenzhen);
7, The applicant wouldn’t mind to Travel a lot all over the world.

Allwinner Open Source, Tina OS Linux for Allwinner R8, R16, R40, R58, CHIP and Banana Pi dev boards


Allwinner unveils Tina OS, their open-source OS based on Linux with their full range SoCs with open source support from Allwinner. Allwinner R8 is their entry level Single-core ARM Cortex-A8 SoC; Allwinner R16 is their quad-core ARM Cortex-A7 at 1Ghz with WiFi; Allwinner R40 is their new enhanced Quad-core ARM Cortex-A7 for the IoT and open source market, with better performance and enhancements including HDMI support; Allwinner R58 is their 28nm Octa-core ARM Cortex-A7 at up to 2.0Ghz with ISP and a higher performance GPU. Allwinner open source partners making and selling development boards includes the $9 CHIP deveplopment board based on Allwinner R8 with 512MB RAM, 4GB Nand Flash, with WiFi and Bluetooth4.0. CHIP got 2 million dollars funding from their kickstarter campaign and they have shipped to all their backers last December/January. Banana Pi is made by Foxconn, they make open-source development boards powered by Allwinner SoCs, having already shipped over 600 thousand, used in different applications like drones, robotics, education, servers, toys, smart home, IoT and more. BananaPi’s product line includes:
BananaPi BPI-M1 and M1+ powered by Allwinner A20 dual-core ARM Cortex-A7 with Mali-400 GPU;
BananaPi BPI-M2 is powered by A31s Quad-core ARM Cortex-A7 with PowerVR SGX544 GPU;
BananaPi BPI-M2+ is powered by H3 Quad-core ARM Cortex-A7 with Mali-400 GPU;
BananaPi BPI-M3 is powered by A83T Octa-core ARM Cortex-A7 with PowerVR SGX544 GPU.

Filmed in 4K using Sony AX53

Distributors/brands can contact Allwinner here:
service@allwinnertech.com
Development Board Distributors/Implementers can contact Banana Pi here:
Nora.sh.lee63@gmail.com

Allwinner H8vr all-in-one VR with 4K@30fps playback

Posted by – May 30, 2016

Allwinner shows their 4K VR all-in-one solution using Allwinner H8vr Octa-core ARM Cortex-A7 with PowerVR SGX544 GPU, runs Android, 2GB RAM, 16GB Nand Flash, supports up to 4K@30fps video playback. Allwinner expect that VR all-in-one will take the biggest market share by 2020, bigger than Phone VR (cardboard+) and PC-based VR (Oculus Rift). Allwinner H8vr’s main focus is video decoding based VR experience, producing less heat (60% compared with competitors), less power consumption (3 hours battery life with a 3000mAh battery, 20% better energy saving compared with competitors), less weight (only 300g for the total VR headset). Allwinner also presents their VR roadmap until 2017, VR9 will be release on in Q42106 with 4X faster performance and with full mobile VR gaming support, VR10 will be released with the a new architecture SoC with 4G LTE, software and hardware based artificial intelligence module, 2X faster performance and 50% lower power consumption (compared with VR9). Allwinner also shows their single-lens 360degree camera solution based on their Allwinner V3 ARM Cortex-A7, supports H.264 video record in MP4 format at 1080p@60fps, 720p@120fps. With built-in WiFi, it supports real-time live streaming of the 360 video to your all-in-one VR headset or smart phone. Filmed in 4K using Sony AX53

Distributors/brands can contact Allwinner here:
service@allwinnertech.com

MediaTek Adaptive Network, Wi-Fi Range Extender and Repeater

Posted by – May 30, 2016

MediaTek MT7621 + MT7615 + MT7615 aims to provide a good quality and ubiquitous wireless connection experience in a secure and reliable way, providing easy automatic setup (not even the need to enter the Wi-Fi password, just plug-and-play), Ban Steering, Roaming, Network Healing and Security. Filmed in 4K using Sony AX53

MediaTek Pump Express 3.0 fast 5V/5A charging using Type-C, 20min to charge 70% of smartphone

Posted by – May 30, 2016

MediaTek shows what they claim is the world’s fastest charging technology that they call MediaTek Pump Express 3.0, it uses USB Type-C, using any standard USB Type-C cable, it can charge a smartphone battery to 70% in 20 minutes; charging for 5 minutes allows for 4 hours of talk time. Mediatek claims Pump Express 3.0 is ready for mass production on MediaTek P20 SoC with their design for a new 5V/5A USB Type-C power adaptor. MediaTek claims to be the first to enable Direct Charge, which bypasses charging circuitry inside the phone and prevents device from overheating by routing the electrical current directly from the adaptor to the battery. MediaTek claims it is Ultra Safe, with 20+ protection mechanisms due to the high 5V/5A charging power.Filmed in 4K using Sony AX53.

Distributors/Brands can contact the MediaTek Pump Express 3.0 team here:
SY Lin, Sr. Manager
sy.lin@mediatek.com (let them know you watched this video)

JmGO booth Tour at HK Fair, JmGO View (P2), TI DLP Projector 250lumens start shipping

Posted by – May 27, 2016

Here is the JmGO booth tour at China Sourcing Fair, JmGO shows G1, P1, P2 on the trade show. JmGO View get $257K from Indiegogo campaign and now ready for shipping. You can buy JmGO View(P2) here: http://www.aliexpress.com/JmGO

Distributors can contact JmGO directly:
Pacha He, Overseas Sales Director
Mobile Phone:+86 13632711546 (also works with whatsapp)
the@jmgo.com
http://en.jmgo.com

$46 iLepo M9 Plus, 4K H.265 Android TV Box on Amlogic S905 with dual-band WiFi and GigaLAN

Posted by – May 27, 2016

Flyshark shows the new Android TV box iLepo M9 Plus powered by Amlogic S905 Quad core ARM Cortex-A53, runs Android 51 2GB RAM, 16GB Nand Flash, comes with private tooling, dual band WiFI 2.4G/5G and Bluetooth 4.0, Gigabit Lan, support 4K H.265 hardware decoding and KODI 15.2 & Add-ons Pre-installed. Price at $46 from 1pcs MOQ.

Distributors can contact FlyShark here:
Mary Ma, Sales Manager
sales@flyshark.mobi
mary@gaoxin-digital.com
Mobile: +86 13714507573
http://www.flyshark.mobi
http://gaoxin-mid.en.alibaba
http://www.dhgate.com/iLepo M9 Plus
http://gaoxin-mid.en.alibaba.com/iLepo M9 Plus

$9.9 Vensmile MiraScreen Wire USB to HDMI cable for iPhone, $13.9 MiraScreen Wire+ C1 for iPhone and Andriod Phone

Posted by – May 27, 2016

Vensmile shows the the new generation miracast dongle but with wired USB cable connecting with iphone and android phone here. C2 is powered by Actions 8252, support only iphone mirroring, bulk price at $9.9.
C1 is powered by Actions 8251 support both iphone and Android phone(above Android4.4), bulk price at $13.9.
Connected with standard USB power adaptors, C1 and C2 support charging the smart phone while mirorring.

You can contact Vensmile here: (Please let them know if you watch this video)
Cherry Mo, Sales Manager
Skype: vissonsales015
cherry.mo@vissontech.com
Mobile: +86 18617132669 (works with Whatsapp/Wechat)
http://www.vissontech.com
http://www.vensmile.net
http://www.vsmart.en.alibaba.com

$100 Sunco S091 4K@30fps Actions Camera on Ambarella A12, $60 4K@24fps Actions Camera on NTK96660


Sunco S091 is a 4K actions camera powered Ambarella A12, features with SONY IMX117 sensor and 170degree wide angle lens, support 4K@30fps, 2K@60/30fps, 1080P@100/60/30fps, 720P@120/60fps H.264 video recording. It comes 2’’Full HD screen,with build-in micro-SD card support up to 64GB, and an 60 meters waterproof case. It also with mini HDMI jack, support video streaming output to big screen by HDMI cable. With WiFi inside, it also support wireless control from remote and mobile phone via APP. Bulk price at $100 for 1000pcs order.
Sunco also shows S032, the 4K@24fps actions camera powered by Novatek NTK96660, bulk price at $60 for 1000pcs order, and the single lens 360 degree camera as well.

You can contact Sunco here: (Let them know if you watch this video)
Jason, Sales Manager
Mobile:+86-139 0298 6423
Tel:+86-755 8374 8050
manager@suncohk.com
Skype: suncosales001
http://www.suncohk.com

CTBozz 13-70” Digital Signage with Touch Screen on RK3288

Posted by – May 25, 2016

CTBozz shows the digital signage from 13 to 70inch display with multi-point touch screen, all is powered by Rockchip RK3288 Quad-core ARM Cortex-A17 and MaliT764 GPU, runs Android5.1.1, 2GB RAM, 16GB Flash on board, with 3pcs USB host, SD card reader, build-in speakers, support 4K@60fps and 3D decoding.