Category: Chip provider

Latest JWD Tablets and Smartphones


JWD shows 7″, 8″, 9.7″, 10.1″ tablets. 7″ ips with dual core allwiner a20 ($100/1000pcs). JWD manufactures about 500 thousand tablets per month, designs products from top to bottom.

Filmed at the HKTDC Hong Kong Electronics Fair (Spring Edition) 2013

You can watch my 3 videos filmed at the JWD factory:

JWD 7″ AllWinner A10 Tablet Factory Tour
JWD 10.1″ AllWinner Factory Tour
Entering the JWD Factory

Shenzhen Aero-startech portable video and tablet pc

Posted by – April 14, 2013

Aero-startech shows various tablets with rockchips -quad and dual cores- soc. This company can sell 20-30k/month and employs 300 factory workers. thanks earl for the title/description.

Filmed at the HKTDC Hong Kong Electronics Fair (Spring Edition) 2013

Latest tablets from Match Tech

Posted by – April 14, 2013

bluetooth keyboard ($12)
7″ tablet ($110)
7″ kids tablet, rk3066
9.7″ rk3066 ($127)
various a20 tablets
8″ ips rk3188
13.3″ rk3188 ($185) thanks earl for the title/description.

Filmed at the HKTDC Hong Kong Electronics Fair (Spring Edition) 2013

Exynos5250 tablet from BEAN Shenzen Kehuitong Electrical

Posted by – April 14, 2013

9.7″ retina display, Samsung Exynos 5250 tablet with android 4.0.4, possible 7″ version. 9.7-10.1(?)”allwinner a31 ($155 USD) tablet. 8″ allwinner a20 ($50-60 USD). This company sell 200k tablets per month and employs 800 factory workers. thanks earl for the title/description.

Filmed at the HKTDC Hong Kong Electronics Fair (Spring Edition) 2013

Shenzhen ACT shows $140 A31 9.7″ Retina and other tablets


Shenzhen ACT Industrial http://www.szaction.com/en/index.asp shows 7″ ips displays(1024*600), qualcomm 8225 soc & 3g, android 4.0 ($105/3k pcs), various tablets using qualcomm, mediatek, rockchip and allwinner socs. Allwinner a31 tablet ($140), 8″ w/ metal housing and ips screen ($120/? pcs). ACT sells 150k tablets per month and deals a lot with indonesia and india.

Filmed at the HKTDC Hong Kong Electronics Fair (Spring Edition) 2013

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Nufront NS115M for mobile launched


Nufront releases their new NS115M chipset with their separate Telink 7619 modem for mobile phone use. Same performance as NS115 but in a shrunken package and optimized software for smartphones. Slightly lowered power consumption ~20%. Upgrade to jellybean coming soon.

Filmed at the HKTDC Hong Kong Electronics Fair (Spring Edition) 2013

Vido Yuandao Window88 9.7″ Rockchip RK3188 Quad-core Tablet


Vido shows $160 9.7″ rk3188, $130 7.85″ ips rk3188, 7″ rk3188 and more. They also show their new RK3168 dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 based 7″ tablet. This company can sell 200k/month and employs 500 factory workers.

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kohotech gameplayers and tablets


Kohotech shows soc sunplus($45/1000),sunplus 7″($89/1000), sunplus 5″($48-51/1000), waterproof bluetooth wireless speaker ($29/1000) 1hr battery, 10.1″ actions quadcore ($119/1000), 10.1″ ips allwinner a31 ($133/1000) -note retina displays cost $10 more- this company sells 30k-60k/month and 500 workers. Biggest markets include Europe Russia and South America.

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$80 8″ Actions quad-core by Starworth


It’s just $80 for their 8″ tablet on a quad-core actions ARM Cortex-A9 with a 4000mah battery when you order 500 pieces minimum. $42 7″ tablet with allwinner a13. 13″ Intel netbook. $71 VIA WM8850 10.1″ laptop. Their Allwinner A31 9.7″ retina tablet costs just $135 with 2GB ram, 4GB flash memory. This company ships around 200,000 pcs/month and has around 300 workers.

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Rockchip RK3168 dual-core 28nm HKMG ARM Cortex-A9 launched


Here’s my latest walk through the Rockchip booth featuring Chen Feng Vice President at Rockchip, walking through all the latest developments at Rockchip. Including their equation for performance per dollar per power consumption. Rockchip’s Android software optimization strategies, including some talk about some of their Chromium OS and Ubuntu experiments and some little talk about what Rockchip wants to do to support the hackers that want to build on top of their platform. Please join the ARMdevice Unlisted Mailing List https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/armdevices-unlisted to suggest how this description can be improved and to help me write the next batches of titles and descriptions so that I can release more Hong Kong HKTDC trade show videos sooner!

Filmed at the HKTDC Hong Kong Electronics Fair (Spring Edition) 2013

Allwinner shows A31S, A20, A31 tablets, HDMI sticks, game pads, projectors and development boards


Allwinner Technology has an enormous booth showing off some of the latest implementations of their A31, A31s and A20 chipsets.

The quad-core A31 has been available for four months and already shipped more than 1 million units. The quad-core A31s started shipping at the end of March 2013 and has the same quad-core and GPU but is geared towards smaller displays (with less memory bandwidth.) They have introduced the A20 dual-core chip, at a price point quite close to the single core.

Their booth showed more than a dozen HDMI stick and small set-top box like computers. One of the dongles was running the mobile-oriented A20 SoC, which could be poised to take over that market at low cost. The A20 is a low-cost, dual-core Cortex-A7. The A20 is pin compatible with the A10 and offers integrated support for camera sensors. This is looking like a very capable chip to power a variety of low cost devices.

The Allwinner booth was showing off a very cool gamepad built with the A31, running Android 4.1, a built-in screen with 1280 x 800 resolution, and game controllers on the left and right sides of the screen. It works like a self-contained gamepad but also serves as a game controller that can product the game on a large HDMI display. The controller has front and back facing cameras, 1GB of DDR3 and 16GB of internal storage. There was no English-name known for the device, which was developed by www.ibenx.com, one of Allwinner’s many partners.

Wits-Technology was showing a development kit for Allwinner’s chips Other partners showed off full-sized and micro projectors built with Allwinner chips. A mobile karaoke amplifier with built-in tablet display was built around Allwinner chips. A novel, Android-based 13.3″ clamshell laptop was running the A20; faster A31 based laptops are expected later this month. Shenzhen Next-Huawen Technology Co., a design house, was showing off their tablet with keyboard dock. Allwinner says they are studying ChromeOS and also considering support for Linux based distributions like Ubuntu. The company says they have released software supporting the A31 to the open source community through a British company. Does anyone have a contact for that open source partner?

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New ainol range of Actions and Allwinner quad-core tablets with Miracast support

Posted by – April 13, 2013

Here are featured the ainol novo10 hero 10.1″ 1280×800 on Actions quad-core, ainol novo7 crystal 7″ 1280×800 on Actions quad-core, ainol novo7 venus 7″ 1280×800 on Actions quad-core, ainol novo9 spark 9.7″ retina on Allwinner A31, ainol novo7 eos 7″ 1280×800 on Nufront NS115 with built-in 3G, ainol novo7 rainbow 7″ 800×480 Allwinner A13, ainol novo8 dream 8″ 1024×768 on Actions quad-core and the ainol novo8 discover 8″ 1024×768 on Actions quad-core.

Ainol is shipping a wide range of 7″, 8 9″ and 10″ tablets. They are a leading provider and brand name for tablets. Their staff of 600 operates a factory in Shenzhen with production capacity of 100,000 units per month. They are shipping to Chinese, European and US markets with sales currently concentrated in South Asia markets (Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines, Indonesia, and South Korea.)

Their low-cost model starts out at $50 wholesale. The Novo 7″ Venus has a screen resolution of 1280 x 800 and runs an Actions-semi quad-core A9 at a wholesale price of $95. The Novo 10″ comes with an Actions quad-core A9 at a wholesale price of $145. Their 9.7″ offers a Retina screen, with Allwinner’s A31 Boxchip, and a wholesale price of $180. The tablets offer different industrial designs snd are engineered with various processors, but they all reportedly provide HDMI ports. Their models based on the Actions processor running Android 4.2.2 support wireless display technology called Miracast: anything displayed on the tablet’s screen can be wirelessly shared with a TV connected to a receiver box.

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Freelander Link-Create Factory Tour, A31, Exynos4412, MT6577 tablets and phones

Posted by – April 11, 2013

Freelander Link-Create manufactures about 2000 tablets or/and phones per day in this factory in Shenzhen China. Freelander makes and sells a whole range of Allwinner A31, Exynos 4412, MediaTek MT6577/6589 and other tablets and smartphones. But they were just making some MediaTek and Exynos based tablets the day (week-end) I was there. Check back for more on Freelander at http://ARMdevices.net in the next few days. I’m going to try to visit their factory again also while there are more people working making some of these newer devices.

Ampe ICOO ICOU7GT, 7″ 1280×800 Allwinner A31 for $129

Posted by – April 11, 2013

Nice looking 7″ 1280×800 IPS tablet with the Allwinner A31 inside. Selling for about $129 (800rmb) in Shenzhen China.

Vivo X1S, MT6589 ultra-thin 6.55mm for $403


This is perhaps the best looking MediaTek MT6589 quad-core ARM Cortex-A7 phone that I have seen yet out of China. I don’t know where the Vivo brand comes from, but this phone is kind of impressive although it is kind of expensive for a MT6589 phone. It includes DAC audio using on-board Cirus Logic chip which provides quite high quality sound.

Nubia Z5, APQ8064 ultra-thin


ZTE’s new brand Nubia releases this ultra-thin Z5 Android phone on the Qualcomm APQ8064 processor.

Alldocube RK3188 Tablet Factory Tour Part 3/3: Assembly

Posted by – April 9, 2013

Welcome on this 23-minute tour at the Alldocube RK3188 Tablet assembly line. See how Shenzhen Cube assembles about 2-3 million Android Rockchip tablets a year, expecting to double their output each year.

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Be sure to have seen all my 21 Shenzhen Factory videos in my YouTube playlist for Shenzhen Factory videos, more to come in the days/weeks to come! Check back!

Alldocube Tablet Factory Tour Part 2/3: SMT workshop

Posted by – April 9, 2013

Here’s a look at Alldocube‘s SMT line in their Shenzhen Headquarters.

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Alldocube RK3188 Tablet Factory Tour Part 1/3: Headquarters


Welcome on my full tour (Part 1 of 3) at the Alldocube Tablet Factory in Shenzhen China. This is the tour at the Alldo Cube Headquarters, featuring their R&D office, design, testing, component storage, component quality control and the device repair/support area. Alldocube in Shenzhen is finalizing the testing and is beginning mass production of the Rockchip RK3188 Quad-core ARM Cortex-A9 28nm HKMG based tablets. Full mass production of the new RK3188 Quad-core Tablets is expected for the middle of April 2013. Check back in the next days for the Parts 2 and 3 of this Factory Tour, to feature the Alldocube SMT Line and Assembly lines next.

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I am the new CEO of Intel

Posted by – April 1, 2013
Category: Opinions, Intel

My non-disclosure agreement expires today, you can read the official press release at http://intel.com/press

SANTA CLARA, Calif., April 1, 2013 – Intel Corporation’s board of directors has announced that it has selected Charbax to be its new CEO effective May 23rd 2013. Charbax is being given full control over the company, tasking Intel’s engineers to design and release ARM Processors in the months to come, the new company motto is to supply market demands instead of trying to control them. More information about Intel’s new corporate priorities to follow in the next few weeks.

I’m excited to announce that the Intel board of directors has named me to be their new CEO. As I have been noticing from looking at my visitor statistics, hundreds of Intel employees have been visiting my blog at least weekly for over a year, they tell me that many of my posts have been sent around their executive offices and that they have then thought about considering me in their search for a new CEO.

I was surprised to hear Intel would hire someone like me as CEO of a $105 Billion Silicon Valley company. My background is just being a technology video-blogger, but the board of directors have convinced me, they are giving me complete freedom in choosing what to do with all engineering and fabrication resources at Intel corp. And I am also allowed to continue to blog on http://ARMdevices.net at the same time, so you can expect me to post more videos here, not fewer.

Here are my priorities for Intel to be enacted as soon as possible (expect official press releases to come in the next 2-3 weeks):

1. Intel to announce Licencing of the ARM Architecture, as well as licencing of ARM Cortex-A15/A7, Mali-T600 series GPU and ARM Cortex-A57/53. Intel is going to dedicate most R&D resources into making the worlds best ARM Processors.

2. Intel Fabs are hereby going to be optimized at making ARM Processors for third party companies. Apple has expressed interest in having Intel fabricate the Apple A6X and future Apple ARM Processors. Intel will do its best to supply Apple and anyone else with some of the worlds most advanced ARM Processors. 22nm ARM Process node manufacturing is available within the next 3 months, 14nm FinFet process node manufacturing of ARM designs to be in full mass production in Intel’s Fabs by the end of the year.

3. Intel Ultrabook to be renamed the Intel Ultra Expensive Notebook division. Intel does hereby invest in ARM Powered Chromebook. Intel to provide full featured ARM Cortex-A15/A7 big.LITTLE designs in mass production within 3 months from today targetted at $199 ARM Powered Chromebooks. Customers Lenovo, HP, Asus, Acer are to announce ARM Chromebooks using Intel’s ARM big.LITTLE processor. Intel expects the ARM Chromebook to overtake x86 Laptop shipments by the middle of this year and Intel is going to do its best to supply to a majority of those ARM Powered laptops.

4. Intel to invest $1 Billion in the ARM Powered One Laptop Per Child project. Official apology letter sent to the One Laptop Per Child foundation with the title: “We are sorry to have delayed the distribution of laptops to children in developing countries around the world”.

5. Intel to use own ARM Architecture licence to optimize ARMv8 64bit design for ARM servers. Intel is going to deliver mass production of 64bit ARM Server designs by the end of this year.

6. Intel allows Microsoft rename Windows RT into Windows 8 Value Edition. Intel will aim at supplying a new range of Windows 8 Value Edition ARM laptops at sub-$299 by the middle of this year. Intel recommends Microsoft open source and free the Windows 8 Value Edition source code, to optimize their chances in gaining market share, but that decision is up to Microsoft. Expect more on this to be announced by Microsoft in the weeks to come.

7. Proprietary projects Thunderbolt and Intel Wireless Display are abandoned, all in favor of USB 3.0 and WiHD open standards.

8. Intel to appologize to AMD and Nvidia for last decades of anti-competitive behavior. Promises to not use anti-competitive behavior going forward.

This is a major pivot for Intel’s business model, the board of directors have full confidence in me being able to guide them through this major inevitable change. Supplying market demands and not trying to dictate and control market trends is hereby Intel’s future role in this industry.