Allwinner 64bit ARMv8 Processor announced

Posted by – July 23, 2014

Available on the market by the end of the year, Allwinner announces they are putting the final touches to their upcoming ARMv8 64bit Processor. Allwinner announces they are licensing the technology from ARM. Aiming their design at the entry-level to mid-level market, it’s going to have Android L and next-gen Windows support, implementing all the advantages of ARMv8 not just the support for more RAM than 4GB, this includes more CPU registers and much more. GPU, video engines, specifics of the cores used and other features will be announced later. Allwinner expects to be able to show the development board for their ARMv8 64bit processor by Hong Kong fair in October.

Here is the official Allwinner press release:

Allwinner’s first 64-bit tablet processor to hit the market soon

With the rising requirement for 64-bit application processors, Allwinner Technology today is announcing that its first 64-bit tablet processor should hit the market by end of 2014. A 64-bit development board should also be ready for demo during the Hong Kong Electronics Fair in October.

Allwinner 64bit ARMv8 processor announced

As a leader in application processor design, Allwinner is always dedicated to providing high performance SoC solutions with low power drain to mobile electronics. Allwinner’s first 64-bit tablet processor, with its support for 4K video codec, H.265, and leading fabrication process, aims to provide a highly cost-effective tablet solution to ODM/OEM partners and end users worldwide.

“The 64-bit era is absolutely the new trend. As one of the most important strategic partners of ARM, Allwinner will team with ARM to take the lead in providing highly cost-effective 64-bit tablet solutions, ” said JackLee, the Chief Marketing Officer of Allwinner, “Allwinner has been the No.1 chipset vendor for Android tablets in term of chipset shipment in both 2012 and 2013. We’re highly confident to take the championship in the coming 64-bit era, just as what we’ve achieved in the 32-bit era.”

“The ARMv8-A based processors deliver multiple benefits including energy-efficient performance and 64-bit capability while still addressing today’s 32-bit applications,” said James Bruce, director of mobile solutions, ARM. “Allwinner’s choice of the ARMv8-A architecture will help them provide cutting-edge mobile application solutions to address market dynamics, bringing benefits to manufacturers and customers worldwide.”

Recently, Linaro announced that the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) build for ARMv8-A architecture has been made available for part of the Linaro 14.06 release. This build has been tested on the ARMv8-A 64-bit hardware development platform “Juno.”

As a member of Linaro organization, the Linaro builds of the AOSP for 64-bit ARMv8-A platform “Juno” and will be a key building block to enable Allwinner to offer a range of differentiated solutions across multiple markets.

About Allwinner
Allwinner Technology is a leading fabless design company dedicated to smart application processor SoCs and smart analog ICs. Its product line includes multi-core application processors for smart devices and smart power management ICs used by brands worldwide.

With its focus on cutting edge UHD video processing, high performance multi-core CPU/GPU integration, and ultra-low power consumption, Allwinner Technology is a mainstream solution provider for the global tablet, internet TV, smart home device, automotive in-dash device, smart power management, and mobile connected device markets.

Allwinner Technology is headquartered in Zhuhai, China.

Contact us:
Twitter: @AllwinnerTech
Email: service@allwinnertech.com

Storex launches Allwinner A33 Tablet mass production

Posted by – July 23, 2014

Created in 1986, Storex launches their Allwinner A33 mass production, with capacity of 150k pcs per month they can OEM and ODM for everyone, here bringing affordable quad-core ARM Cortex-A7 Tablets to the mass market. Storex’s main market is in France (HQ based sales & marketing), office in Spain for Iberica area, also selling in Portugal, Italy, UK and some other small countries in Europe, manufactured in Shenzhen China.

You can contact Storex here:
Email : support@storex.eu
Web : www.storex.eu

ZGPax Smartwatches, making them for 7 years

Posted by – July 22, 2014

ZGPax shows their latest range of Smartwatches, using MediaTek MT6577 and MT6572 running Android, and their $35 version (500 pieces MOQ) running MediaTek MT6260 for basic Bluetooth functions only. You can see my video filmed with ZGpax at Hong Kong Fair October 2013

Contact Andy of ZGPAX (please only for serious buyers/distributors):
Shenzhen PGD Digital Technology Co Ltd
Anlong International Group (HK) Co Ltd
Andy Loi, Sales Director
Mobile: +86 15013588272
Tel: +86 755 33126046
http://andalong.com

http://zgpax.com

http://china-msd.com
sales@andalong.com
root@andalong.com
Skype: pgd818

OCloud Allwinner A20 Thin Client

Posted by – July 22, 2014

http://www.ocloudtech.com/ shows off their Allwinner based Thin Client, spinned out of the pcDuino project filmed here which they are selling at about $200 each.

You can contact OCloud Tech here:
TEL: +086 0769 2307 9996
Email: henglai@ocloudtech.com
HTTP: http://www.ocloudtech.com

Aikun Factory Tour, launching Allwinner A33 mass production

Posted by – July 21, 2014

Producing 1.3 Million tablets per year, with an annual turnover of above $40 Million, Aikun is ramping up mass production of their Allwinner A33 Tablets, they are one of the top Android tablet brands in markets like Argentina, Mexico and elsewhere.

You can contact Aikun here:
Email : celia@aikun-china.com / master@atek-china.com
Web : www.aikun-china.com
Tel.: (+86) 6110 2468 – 6110 2858
Fax.: (+86) 755 6110 2469 – 6110 2468
Factory Address:
A2 building, Lianhe Industrial Park, Fengtang Road,
Fuyong, Baoan, Shenzhen, China

Yifang Factory Tour, launching Allwinner A33 mass production

Posted by – July 21, 2014

Yifang Digital, founded in 1992, has manufactured over 10 Million tablets since 2008, also makes Wearables and other Smart devices, now their Tablet production capacity is 600 thousand tablets per month, over 20 thousand square meters, they do their own injection, dust-free workshop, 8 SMT Lines and 9 assembly lines. Yifang can do everything in house including R&D, UI design, PCB layout, injection, tooling, SMT to assembly. Yifang is now ramping up the mass production of their newest Allwinner A33 quad-core ARM Cortex-A7 tablets.

You can contact Yifang here:
Yifang Digital
Fiona Liu
fionaliu@yifangdigital.com
Tel: +86 755-2735 4040
mobile: +86 150 1924 8501

Ococci X10 4G LTE on Allwinner A31S Tablet Design House Tour

Posted by – July 19, 2014

Ococci provides the first 4G LTE solution on cost effective Quad-core ARM Cortex-A7 Allwinner A31S Full HD 1080p Tablet platform. As famous tablet brands (Samsung, Nokia, apple) launch their 4G tablets, a whole new market using Allwinner with 4G LTE is now possible. Ococci X10 is the first 4G tablet from the first 4G LTE tablet IDH in China, Ococci Tech.

Ococci X10 features a Full HD 10.1″ display, using the Allwinner A31S chipset with 4K video support, up to 2GB RAM, dual-stereo speakers, smart color system, pictures display is of higher definition, richer color of flamboyance. X10 supports Miracast, wireless printing and optimizing power consumption with a large 7000mAh battery.

For further information about Ococci and its tablet solutions, you can contact:
ShenZhen Ococci Technology Co.,Ltd.
ivan@ococci.com
Mobile phone :(+86) 13600418105
Address: Room 609, Tower B-1, Mingyou Industrial Products Procurement Center,
Baoyuan Road, Xixiang Street, Bao’an District, Shenzhen, China

Allwinner A80T’s Solution Development Cycle

Posted by – July 18, 2014

This video shows the progression of 5 PCBA designs throughout Allwinner A80T’s solution development cycle:

1) Initial dev board: a fully-expandable performance evaluation board used for early-stage driver development and IC performance optimization.

2) A80 OptimusBoard: a small-size development board used for non-tablet application SDK development.

3) Tablet form factor reference board: a development platform used primarily for Android porting optimization, early-stage reliability testing, and solution reference design.

4) Customer tablet boards: a mass-production tablet designed by customer based on Allwinner reference design.

5) CubieBoard 8: a development board designed by customer based on Allwinner reference design.

Octa-Core CPU Performance/Power Tuning on the Allwinner A80T

Posted by – July 18, 2014

This video shows one of the automated performance testing tools used during A80’s big.LITTLE tuning process. big.LITTLE is an innovative technology used to balance Cortex-A7’s low power with Cortex-A15’s high performance. An important part of the tuning process is frequent regression testing – that is, checking how performance and power consumption are affected by firmware updates. In this video, a simple automated benchmark test is running after a firmware update.

Quick-and-dirty tests like these allow software engineers to more efficiently check system performance and power consumption after low-level parameter changes.

PowerVR G6230 64-Core GPU Tuning on the Allwinner A80T

Posted by – July 18, 2014

This video shows one of the GPU tuning tools (PVRTune) used during A80 development. To run the tests, an A80T tablet is hooked up to a host computer running PVRTune. A tester can then operate different use cases on the tablet (scrolling through the GUI, playing games, etc) while seeing how GPU load is affected on the host computer’s PVRTune display window. In this video, we see how the GPU’s 3D engine is loaded while scrolling through Android’s stock GUI. When performance bottlenecks are spotted, this tool can help engineers better distinguish CPU/GPU root causes, increasing debugging efficiency.

Allwinner A80T Onda V989 Tablet now shipping! new Smart features!

Posted by – July 17, 2014

The first tablet based on the Allwinner A80 is now shipping out of China! It’s the Onda V989, using the nice ultra slim iPad Air display, this tablet looks extremely sleek and nice. Here Allwinner is showing off some of their new Smart features, including the cool “always on” sensor that wakes the device up with just a double-touch of the display (similar to LG knock-on feature, and similar somewhat to previous Moto X sensor fusion stuff), they also have a few head-tracking Smart functions that they added in settings, taking advantage of their hardware accelerated head-tracking feature: Smart Pause pauses video when you look away from the screen, Smart Rotate does not rotate the screen when you for example lie down on the bed, Smart Stay means the screen always stays on if you are still looking at it when the dimming setting kicks in (it overrides screen dimming). More specs, pricing, and other stuff to follow, let me know what you might like me to test on this tablet in a next video about it.

Onda V989 Specs, Price:
Ultra-light, extremely narrow bezel 9.7” 2048×1536 IPS LCD
OctaCore A7/A15 CPU
64-Core PowerVR G6230 GPU
2GB LPDDR3
32BG eMMC
G-Sensor, Gyroscope, USB 3.0
WiFi + BT 4.0
0.3MP/5MP

China Market Price 1099 RMB

Allwinner Headquarters Entrance in Zhuhai China!

Posted by – July 17, 2014

Here at the Allwinner Headquarters in Zhuhai China, few months before they open their brand new giant R&D headquarters just next to the one they are currently at. Their new headquarters can include more than 1000 employees, 85% of their employees at their Zhuhai headquarters are engineers, working on chip design, PCB optimization, Android optimization/updates/features, product development, customer support and much more! Check back on http://ARMdevices.net in the next few days for a range of videos filmed at the Allwinner headquarters!

Unuiga TV-Mounted Video-conferencing RK3188 Android Set-top-box

Posted by – July 12, 2014

Unuiga sells this RK3188 Powered TV-Mounted Android TV Box, configured for video-conferencing, with an RF Air Mouse (with built-in microphone and headphones), the back side includes 4 USB Host ports, HDMI port, AV Out, Optical out, Ethernet port, Dual-antenna, built-in front-facing video camera. Unuiga are working also on RK3288 at their PCB Design House and Factory and SMT. You can also watch this video about Unuiga’s company history.

You can contact Unuiga here:

Steven Ching
Marketing Director
Company Name: Great Harmony Electronics Industrial Limited
Factory Name: Shenzhen Ulike Technology Co.,Ltd.
Factory Address: 5F, E Building, Dakan Technology Park, Xili Town, Nanshan District, Shenzhen, China
Tel: 86-755-86110143
Fax: 86-755-86330445
Cell: 86-18038133940
Web : www.unuiga.com
E-mail: steven@unuiga.com
MSN: stevenching@live.cn
Skype: stevenching1976

Netronix E Ink Smartwatch

Posted by – July 12, 2014

Netronix is showing their upcoming new flexible E Ink Smartwatch design, using the E Ink display means the display remains always-on, and it has Bluetooth 4.0 features with Android 4.4 and iOS7, 77grams, 4-6 days battery life, the price can be around $70-$80. Netronix is a Taiwan based design house, they deliver E Ink based ARM Powered devices for customers that buy bulk and brand it.

MediaTek LinkIt Aster MT2502, new SoC for entry-level Smartwatches

Posted by – July 12, 2014

MediaTek launches the Linkit platform called Aster MT2502, combining the MCU, PMIC, Bluetooth, Memory and Modem all into one chip. Lowering the power consumption, lowering the size, and even lowering the cost, MediaTek also introduces the Tiny System that kicks-in to standby mode on a lowered 26Mhz CPU frequency, down from a peak of 260Mhz that this MT2502 is designed to run at. When the Smartwatch is in use, it runs on RTOS Nucleus OS, running basic Smart functions with built-in Bluetooth 4.0 Low Energy. Thus lower power (runs up to 4 days) compared to the existing MediaTek MT6260 platform which already runs a whole range of sub-$30 Smartwatches on the market. Supports QVGA 320×240 displays only, MediaTek is working with all kinds of different display providers including also E Ink. To accelerate development on their Linkit, MediaTek launches the MediaTek Labs providing a development board with SDK, find more information at http://www.mediatek.com/en/labs/

MediaTek MT6592 with LTE MT6290 and big.LITTLE MT6595 with LTE

Posted by – July 11, 2014

Here’s the MediaTek MT6592 with LTE Support, ripping out the modem part and adding MediaTek’s Multimode Worldwide Cat4 LTE modem 150mbit/150mbit, it’s thus packaged together. This is MediaTek entering the LTE market, power consumption being optimized, the next generation big.LITTLE MT6595 with integrated LTE is four ARM Cortex-A15 and four ARM Cortex-A7 where the modem part is using ARM Cortex-R4 arriving in Q3. MediaTek’s 64bit SoC may also be available as soon as the end of this year.

Bluetimes cooperate with Realtek Realease wirless transmission solution based on RTD1185PA-GR & RTL8192DU/RTL8188CUS

Posted by – July 8, 2014

Bluetimes and Realtek launch a wireless transmission screen solution based on chip RTD1185 system & RTL8192DU or RTL8188CUS Wifi chipset. This works with consumer products such as computers, tablet, mobile phones and provides Miracast, DLNA, Intel WIDI to satisfy users for portable devices with larger screen with high quality and low latency between the wireless transmission of screen application demand.

bluetimes realtek

Advantages of this solution :

1. RTD1185 system chip and RTL8192DU double-frequency 2 x2 wi-fi chip set of wireless transmission solution to become the first screen Miracast certification test platform.

• 2. BOM highly integrated DDR (ETN, HDMI, 128 m).

• 3. Support on the market all the Wifi display technology: Intel WiDi, Miracast, DLNA, as well as the self-developed Airfun.

, 4. RTD1185 format for the whole decoding multimedia chip, IC leading manufacturer for the multimedia player, so-called Full hd media player can encode any formats with movie.

• 5. Membership Realtek netcom department, to provide a complete set of main chip and the Wifi chip solutions.

• 6. Strong BLUETIMES FAE engineering team to provide hardware/software engineering support.

bluetimes realtek

bluetimes realtek

• CPU: 500MHz

• HD MPEG 1/2/4 & HD JPEG Decoder

• HD H.264, VC1, RM/RMVB, AVS Decoder

• AV Streaming/Transmission via Ethernet & WiFi

• TV Encoder with CVBS/S- Video/YPbPr/SCART Out

• HDMI v1.3 with CEC

• I2S, SPDIF Out

• USB2.0 Host & PHY

• USB2.0 Device & PHY

• 10/100 Ethernet MAC & PHY

• Gigabit Ethernet MAC

• PCI-Express

• Card Reader (SD/MMC)

If you are interesting with Bluetimes Mircast Full hd media player or other product pls email sales1@ebluetimes.com. Direct phone line +86 755 27318811 to Alex Dou.

My father’s funeral – part 3 of 3

Posted by – July 6, 2014
Category: Exclusive videos

A year ago, my father was buried here. This has been the hardest year of my life, without him guiding me, without his comment and without him telling me what to do. Nobody to sit in his chair, nobody to see what he would have seen, a mystery of his past.

$69 Game Box X8 with Joystick from MeLE

Posted by – July 4, 2014

Latest android game box X8 with unique remote control and joystick from MeLE, it comes with 2G DDR3 RAM and 8GB ROM. It is powered by Allwinner A31 chipset and PowerVR SGX 544MP2. It comes with latest new shinning red casing and WiFi allowing you to enjoy games on TV at home. MeLE has already tuned and made 100 games compatible and workable on MeLE X8, they will keep working on that and will invite developers to support and benefit from it. For only 69 USD retail price, shipping since the end of June.

You can contact MeLE directly here:

OEM & ODM Brand for Android Tv Box, Air Mouse, HDMI Dongle:
Contact: Tina Zhang Email: sales14@mele.cn Skype: tina.zhang703
Contact: Coco Jiang Email: sales8@mele.cn Skype: melecoco

Distributor & Reseller for MeLE Brand of Android Tv Box, Air Mouse, HDMI Dongle:
Contact: Gennie Peng Email: sales10@mele.cn Skype: apvell091
Contact: Isaac Long Email: sales5@mele.cn Skype: isaac_520320

Official Company Website: http://www.mele.cn
Official eBay Store: http://stores.ebay.com/meleofficialstore
Official Aliexpress Store: http://www.aliexpress.com/store/715968

All inquiries will be reviewed and responded promptly (in 24 hours)
If you have any urgent questions you can call +86 18675512024

$29 Wireless Audio Adapter from MeLE

Posted by – July 4, 2014

A brand new smart device from MeLE, the Wireless Audio Adapter. It is a bridge allowing for streaming music from phones, tablets to speakers and amplifers. It is all controlled by AirFun app on your mobile devices through 2.4G wireless, which is easy to setup and enjoy. There are audio output jack, micro USB host for charging and also USB 2.0 host for playing music from external USB drive. The sound is solid and stable. $29 is the suggested retail price.

You can contact MeLE directly here:

OEM & ODM Brand for Android Tv Box, Air Mouse, HDMI Dongle:
Contact: Tina Zhang Email: sales14@mele.cn Skype: tina.zhang703
Contact: Coco Jiang Email: sales8@mele.cn Skype: melecoco

Distributor & Reseller for MeLE Brand of Android Tv Box, Air Mouse, HDMI Dongle:
Contact: Gennie Peng Email: sales10@mele.cn Skype: apvell091
Contact: Isaac Long Email: sales5@mele.cn Skype: isaac_520320

Official Company Website: http://www.mele.cn
Official eBay Store: http://stores.ebay.com/meleofficialstore
Official Aliexpress Store: http://www.aliexpress.com/store/715968

All inquiries will be reviewed and responded promptly (in 24 hours)
If you have any urgent questions you can call +86 18675512024