Allwinner hoping to bring the cost of 4K video down with new 64bit tablet SoC


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Chinese chip maker Allwinner have unveiled the Allwinner A64 SoC for tablets which could bring 4K video support to devices in lower price brackets.

All winner are no stranger to bringing powerful processors to Chinese tablets, and along with Rockchips and Mediatek are the top picks of manufactures wanting to bring powerful performance and flagship features to their devices at a budget.

The new Allwinner A64 is being promoted as the most cost-effective 64bit tablet processor on the market today. The SoC boasts 4 x Cortex A53 CPU cores and supports H.265/H.64 video decoding and 4K video over HDMI to an external display. It should also be fairly future proof to judging by the fact it will support Android 5.0 Lollipop.

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The real killer feature of this chipset though is the price. At only $5 a processor, Chinese tablet manufacturers have a very affordable SoC to choose when building their upcoming devices. So what’s the catch? Well although the Allwinner A64 does offer good video for the money, it doesn’t offer any 3G, 4G or GSM native support meaning manufacturers will have to come to their own solution.

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4 Comments

  1. ufg
    February 9, 2015

    wow, should be a killer processor for set top boxes if they get it right!

  2. Rob
    February 9, 2015

    What GPU will come with this? The CPU is like the mtk6732.

    • Stavros G
      February 9, 2015

      what? mtk6732 is of Mediatek. A64 is a CPU of Allwinner

  3. Muhammad Yasir
    February 9, 2015

    The 4G modems will eventually drop in price and then this will form a killer partnership withh a64!
    hopefully by end of Q2 2015