San Francisco, June 12, 2015 — The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux and collaborative development, today announced that Allwinner Technology, Datto, LINBIT, and Nutanix are joining the organization.

Commodity hardware, low-power processors, virtualization and a reliable operating system like Linux are in high demand as companies embrace cloud, web-scale computing and high-performance computing. Major growth in trends such as mobile, edge and networked computing create ongoing challenges for collecting, storing, protecting and analyzing ever-escalating levels of data. However, Linux, running on devices, desktops, servers, clouds and modern supercomputers, is always evolving. For example, today’s new members are driving changes in hyperconverged data centers, chip design, disaster recovery and data replication.

“Allwinner is joining the Linux Foundation to support Linux and to improve what we see as two important open source software development capabilities: collaboration and compliance,” said Jack Lee, Chief Marketing Officer, Allwinner Technology.  “These two concepts are critical yet difficult to master for new Linux community entrants like ourselves.”

 “Linux evolves much more rapidly than any other OS and diversifies faster,” said Amanda McPherson, Chief Marketing Officer at The Linux Foundation. “No other operating system has jumped to new platforms, new workloads, and new architectures so quickly. As a result, we continually add new members who are are advancing new features and functionality at a very rapid clip. This keeps Linux vibrant and flexible enough for a wide variety of platforms, applications and computing environments.”

About Allwinner Technology

Allwinner Technology, founded in 2007 in Zhuhai, China, is a leading fabless semiconductor design company.  The company designs integrated circuits and turnkey solutions for connected mobile electronics, home entertainment, video security, and IoT devices.  Allwinner’s products have been used by multi-national brands and ODMs worldwide in applications like consumer tablet PCs, industrial and retail tablet PCs, OTT set-up boxes, IP cameras, smart digital appliances, Linux development boards, home gateways, robotics, Wi-Fi speakers, gaming consoles, automotive ADAS systems, and more.

About The Linux Foundation

The Linux Foundation is a nonprofit consortium dedicated to fostering the growth of Linux and collaborative software development. Founded in 2000, the organization sponsors the work of Linux creator Linus Torvalds and promotes, protects and advances the Linux operating system and collaborative software development by marshaling the resources of its members and the open source community. The Linux Foundation provides a neutral forum for collaboration and education by hosting Collaborative Projects, Linux conferences, including LinuxCon and generating original research and content that advances the understanding of Linux and collaborative software development. More information can be found at www.linuxfoundation.org.

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AllWinner has been consistently showcasing its new chipsets at different tech event such as CES and even Hong Kong Electronics Fair. Now, it is said that the new AllWinner A64 chipset for tablets will enter mass production. The highlight of the chip is its 64-bit architecture, at an unbelievable $5 price tag.

The AllWinner A64 chip comes with four Cortex A53 Cores which are power efficient as well as powerful. The overall system running on this chip can perform a cold boot within just 9.9 seconds.

Other notable specifications of the AllWinner A64 chip include:

1. Support for 4K Video Output for the best multimedia experience, support for H.264 / H.265 Video Hardware Decoding.

2. Support for a number of different DRAM Memory like LPDDR2/ LPDDR3 / DDR3L etc.

3. Faster IO experience and data throughput thanks to support for eMMC 5.0 interface.

4. AllWinner’s special SmartColor 2.0 Display technology for better and vivid color reproduction.

5. Support for ARM’s latest Trusted Firmware Security Architecture.

As you can see, the AllWinner A64 chipset for tablets offers real good specs for its super cheap $5 price tag. This will truly enable low cost tablets to boost its performance without having to sacrifice its affordability factor.

The tablets running on this new chip will also come with the latest Android 5.1 version which should further attract a lot of new customers. ‘

The AllWinner A64 quad-core chipset will enter mass production in June. So, expect tablets powered by this low cost chip sometime later in the second half of the year.

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Allwinner is one of the biggest chipset makers in China. Recently, the company showed off a number of devices running its latest Allwinner H series chipsets like Allwinner H8, H64 and H3. Like tradition, these chipsets will end up in a number of smart devices that will debut in the second half of 2015. These smart devices include TV boxes, Mini PCs and development boards.

The Allwinner H3 is a quad-core chipset based on ARM’s Cortex A7 architecture. While the chip isn’t very fast, its powerful enough for your TV boxes and to support 4K UHD H.265 / HEVC video playback. That’s pretty impressive for a low cost SoC. If you are looking for something more powerful, you should take a look at their octa-core H8 based on eight cortex A7 cores clocked at 2.0GHz with PowerVR SGX544. The chip supports playback 1080p HD video at 60 frames per second with H.265 / HEVC codec, API supports OpenGL ES 2.0, 1.1 and OpenCL 1.1.

Ideally, the Allwinner H3 should end up in ultra low cost TV boxes which will retail for less than $50. On the other hand, the Allwinner H8 could be used in devices which need a little more power like low cost gaming consoles.

However, the Allwinner H64 is probably the company’s highlight chip of 2015 based on 64-bit architecture with quad Cortex A53 cores. These cores improve performance to a great extent without consuming too much power. The chip also support 4K video decoding in H.265 compression and 4K video playback via HDMI. Other features include Smart Color Display 2.0 tech, support for various DRAM types, Android 5.1 Operating system etc.

The company also showed its A64 tablet prototype. The following are the features of the device.

• • 64-bit ARMv8 Cortex-A53 architecture,
  30%+ performance boost over Cortex-A7
  • 9.9-second system boot (cold boot)
  Industry-leading features
  • H.265/HEVC 4K video decoding in
  hardware
  • 4K HDMI output
  • Latest SmartColor display 2.0 technology
  • World’s first DTMB-capable tablet
  solution (support AVS+ decoding
  standard)
  • Support various DRAM types, including
  LPDDR2/ LPDDR3/ DDR3 / DDR3L
  Latest operating system
  • Android 5.1 operating system

The company also showcased many other devices such as Car DVR system, IP Cameras running the company’s chips. However, the most striking product was the Google Glass like wearable glasses using Allwinner’s technology.

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Onda is the one of Chinese tablet manufacturer that always offers the affordable tablet device. And now they unveiled their new tablet that powered by Allwinners octa-core chipset.

The new Onda V989 has similar size with Apple ipad tablet, but the new Onda V989 is running Android operating system and use Allwinner A80-T octa-core processor. This tablet is offers with only $177.

The Onda V989 is packs with 9,7 inch screen size with 2048 x 1536 pixel display, sports with 2GB of RAM, and coupled with 8 megapixel rear camera and 2 megapixel front facing camera for selfie or making video calling or video chatting.

The Allwinner A80-T processor is equipped with a pairs of four ARM Cortex-A15 processor and four  lower-power ARM Cortex-A7 CPU cores and support with PowerVR G6230 graphics chipset.

Interestingly, the chipset is supports for caputure the 4K video and also playback since support with H.265/VPN video processing, the tablet is also has USB 3.0 port.

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While for now MediaTek is already release its MT6592 true octa-core processor, and now AllWinner is also follow to build their octa core processor through Ultra Octa-Core AllWinner processor.

The new AllWinner A80 is Ultra Octa Core based on eight Cortex A15 core chipset, this processor is also potentially to packs with Mali-T6xx, Mali-T7xx and PowerVR G6000 GPU of those AllWiner A80 processor.

But there is some issue regarding this processor, the AllWinner still has a problem to reduce the heat issue and power consumption so they have to re-engineering to their 28nm chipset. AllWinner claimed their chipset can reach more than 40,000 score point on benchmark, but we don’t have an image and exact information to proof that benchmark  score.

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AllWinner is the Chinese chipset manufacturer is now ready to released their new octa processor through AllWinner A80 Octa-core processor.

But while for now, those processor from Alwinner is not true octa-core processor, this chipset is using big.LITTLE architecture as used by Samsung Exynos 5 processor, while for now, the Mediatek chipset has already using the true Octa-core processor in the market.

Allwinner spokesperson said, though this processoris only using big.LITTLE architecture, the new AllWinner A80 cores capable of running all in it together. With this technology, Allwinner also claims that this processor will provide enhanced the performance of smartphone or tablet devices.

Unfortunately, there are no details about the clock speed, graphics technology, or even whether these are ARM Cortex-A15 and Cortex-A7 CPU cores (like those found in octa-core chips from Samsung, MediaTek, and Renesas).

The processor is also scheduled to be launched into the market by the end of 2013 or early 2014. And this processor targeting for low-end devices, since Allwinner has a history of making low-cost processors that are popular with makers of Chinese companies building low-cost tablets. So far most of those chips have been relatively low power processors that don’t offer the same level of performance you get from competitors such as Rockchip or MediaTek — although Allwinner was one of the first Chinese chip makers to emphasize its support for 4K video playback.

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AllWinner, one of Chinese chip maker which is quite popular, has just released a chip AllWinner A20 Cortex A7 chipset, this is the first dual-core processor from those company.

The A20 will make more diverse share of cheap and claimed to have five times the energy efficiency as well as 50% more power than the Cortex A8 chipset.

In the second A7 chip attached a Mali GPU 400MP2. The graphics chip can play 1080p video at 30 fps and can record 720p video at 70fps speed.  This chip also supports Android 4.1 and 4.2, as well as integrated with the transmitter HDMI, LVDS interface and integrated TV set-top box.

AllWinner will complement with the MediaTek. Both manufacturer, is predicted will compete in the international market for affordable gadget class.

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AllWinner is one of chipset manufacturer which ready to preparing their new products, the new chipset is AllWinner A20, its heading to market on April this year.

Design of an intelligent application processor chip manufacturers as a fire, the whole aims to launch a quad-core processor A31 Cortex-A7 architecture, recently released on its official website a new Cortex-A7 dual-core chip architecture is A20.

AllWinner A20, entry-level dual-core processor for tablet device
The chip can be said to “A31” dual-core chip version, the graphical aspects different from A31 which powered by SGX 544 MP2, but currently most of the homemade chips with the same Mali 400 MP2 dual-core GPU, excellent compatibility.

AllWinner A20 support for 1GB of high-speed DDR3 memory. Also support 2160P HD decoding and encoding H.264 1080P @ 30fps, excellent multimedia performance.

AllWinner A20 also supports multiple resolutions of 1024×768 or 1024×600 and supports for Android 4.1 operatng system. Support for WiFi, Bluetooth, and 3G capabilities.

The AllWinner A20 processing chip seems like A10 primarily for entry-level Tablet PC product, after all, the resolution supports is too low, a short piece of board or obvious, but its relatively low price certainly they give an entry-level tablet impact on this market.

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While we ever covered the products which powered with AllWinner A31 processor, is now we want to explain about the AllWinner A31 itself.

AllWinner Technology, one of the original chip maker Zhuhai – China, which is said to have successfully spawned Quad-Core mobile processor first in the world to use the Cortex-A7 architecture. And a processor known as the “Allwinner A31” is reportedly just been showcased in CES 2013 in Las Vegas – United States.

Allwinner A31 includes the latest 40nm processor that features a PowerVR GPU SGX544MP. Just as NVIDIA Tegra 4, Allwinner A31 is actually a power-efficient processor also.

The resulting frequency ranges Allwinner A31 was 1GHz to 1.2GHz, while the default frequency is running at 355MHz on the GPU. So to obtain the maximum performance, reportedly Allwinner A31 can also be overclocked to its highest frequency.

In the market, the price Allwinner A31 is priced at 20 USD per unit. With the price that much, Allwinner A31 claimed is suitable for use on mobile devices are supported on Android 4.2 to Windows 8 or as tablets, smartphones, PCs and smart TV.

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