ALLWINNER TECHNOLOGY
Allwinner Technology founded in 2007, 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 connected automotive application, smart hardware, smart home device, service robot, drone, Virtual Reality, tablet, internet TV, automotive in-dash device, smart power management, and mobile connected device markets.
Since its founding in 2007, Allwinner has released over fifteen SoC processors for use in Android-based tablets, as well as in smartphones, over-the-air OTT boxes, video camera systems, car DVRs, and car media players. In 2012 and 2013, Allwinner was the number one supplier in terms of unit shipments of application processors for Android tablets worldwide. According to DigiTimes, in Q4 2013 Allwinner lost its number one position in terms of unit shipments to the Chinese market to Rockchip. For Q2 2014, Allwinner was reported by DigiTimes to be the third largest supplier to the Chinese market after Rockchip and MediaTek. DigiTimes has also projected that Allwinner will fall to the number four position in Q4 2014, being passed by Intel, as Allwinner's unit shipments continue to decline.
Established in 2007, Allwinner Technology is a fabless semiconductor company that emerged as one of the early independent entities to secure an ARM license, focusing on Android-oriented platforms. The introduction of its single-core A10 (Cortex-A8 with Mali 400 GPU) in late 2010 demonstrated Allwinner's capability to rival better-promoted brands in the processor market. Despite this achievement, Allwinner's primary emphasis has predominantly been on mid-range and budget-friendly tablets, Portable Media Players (PMPs), and HDMI media sticks, rather than smartphones.
Products
A-Series
Allwinner A23 Dual-Core
A series processors are used for mobile applications, mainly referring to tablet application.
A1x family
In 2011, the company became an ARM processor licensee, and subsequently announced a series of ARM Cortex-A8 powered mobile application processors, including A10, A13 and A10s, which were used in numerous tablets, and also in PC-on-a-stick and media center devices. They have also been adopted in free hardware projects like the Cubieboard development board.
A2x and A3x family
In December 2012, Allwinner announced the availability of two ARM Cortex-A7 MPCore powered products, the dual-core Allwinner A20 and quad-core Allwinner A31. Production of the A31 started in September 2012 and end products, mostly high-end tablets from Chinese manufacturers, appeared on the market in early 2013, including the Onda V972. Allwinner was the first to make this ARM processor core available in mass production.
A5x family
In April 2019, Allwinner announced the A50 28 nm quad-core SoC. The A50 features four Cortex-A7 cores running up to 1.8 GHz with 512 KB L2 cache and a Mali-400 MP2 GPU.
A6x family
In June 2017, Allwinner announced the A63 28 nm quad-core SoC at APC 2017 Conference. The A63 features four Cortex-A53 cores running up to 1.8 GHz with 512 KB L2 cache and a Mali-T760 MP2 GPU with OpenGL ES 3.2 support. VPU with 4K/6K VP9, H.265, and H.264 4K @ 30fps video decoder and H.264 HP encoder 1080P@30fps
A8x family
In October 2013, Allwinner disclosed its upcoming octa-core A80 SoC, featuring four high-performance ARM Cortex-A15 and four efficient ARM Cortex-A7 CPU cores in a big.LITTLE configuration.
A10x/20x/30x family
In April 2019, Allwinner announced their roadmap for 2019 to 2020 feature the A100, A200, A300 and A301 SoC. The Allwinner A200 was described as “AI blessing, computational power”.
F-Series
From 2007 to 2011, Allwinner introduced its F-series processors, including the F10, F13, F18, F20, F1E200, F1C100, and F20. This series runs Allwinner's in-house operating system Melis2.0, which is now mainly used in vehicle multimedia systems, E-ink readers, video intercom systems, and so on.
H-Series
The H-series, introduced in 2014, are integrated application processors primarily targeted at OTT set-top box applications e.g. HDMI mini PCs, gaming boxes, etc.
R-Series
The R (“Real-Time") Series Chip is designed for low power applications where timing is critical and must be done at the edge rather than in the fog or cloud. The chip also has built in redundancies to meet industrial and automotive standards for processing.
V-Series
The V-Series are video encoding processor targeting applications such as smart DVR, IP camera and smart home applications. It is similar to the A series SoC, but adds support for functions such as digital watermarking, motion detection and video scaling, as well as a CBR/VBR bit rate control mode.
Allwinner is again focusing on premium GPU performance with its quad-core A31, based on Cortex-A7 and equipped with the PowerVR SGX 544 GPU. This is the same GPU that was used in the third-gen iPad, thus enabling a whole swathe of 2048x1536p-class 9- and 10-inch Android tablets at budget prices.
| Soc | CPU Core | GPU Core | Max Resolution | Camera | Video Encode/Decode |
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| A10 | Cortex A8 (1-core) @ 1.0 GHz | Mali 400 | 1920x1080 | N/A | 1080p @ 30 FPS |
| A10s | Cortex A8 (1-core) @ 1.0 GHz | Mali 400 | 1920x1080 | N/A | 1080p @ 30 FPS |
| A13 | Cortex A8 (1-core) @ 1.0 GHz | Mali 400 | 1920x1080 | N/A | 1080p @ 30 FPS |
| A20 | Cortex A7 (2-cores) | Mali 400 MP2 | 1920x1080 | 8MP | 1080p @ 30 FPS / 2160p @ 30 FPS |
| A31 | Cortex A7 (4-cores) | PowerVR SGX 544 MP2 | 2048 ×1536 | 12MP | 1080p @ 30 FPS / 4kx2k @ 30 FPS |
| A80 | Cortex A7 (4-cores) / Cortex A15 (4-cores) | PowerVR 6230 | 2560x1600 | 16MP | 4K×2K @ 30 FPS (h.265/VP9 support) |
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MYC-YT507H CPU Module |
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MYC-YT113X CPU Module |
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MYC-YT113i CPU Module |
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MYD-YT507H Development Board |
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MYD-YT113X Development Board |
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MYD-YT113i Development Board |
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