Competition cheap Android smartphones and tablets becoming more crowded this year. Especially after the arrival of a cheap quad core processor product released by Amlogic, the AML8726-M8 processor.

This processor is scheduled to be released to the market in the second half in 2013. This processor is a quad core processor was built with the ARM Cortex A9 design.

Amlogic AML8726-M8 will have a maximum speed of up to 2GHz. Will also be equipped with a quad-core GPU ARM Mali and support for full HD video decoding and 4k output video.

This processor will also compete directly with quad core processor from Rockchip and MediaTek. And the maximum speed offered to 2GHz, the processor is also certainly going to give a very attractive option for those seeking an inexpensive device.

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Chip maker from Taiwan WonderMedia its part of VIA Technologies is well-known with the VIA chipset products has been producing PRIZM WM8980 which is a Dual-core ARM Cortex A9 processor with 1.2 GHz clock speed and uses ARM Mali 4 dual core GPU.

PRIZM WM8980 is an improvement from the previous chip has added support for Android  4.2 Jelly Bean operating system and increase the speed of the processor but instead eliminates Ethernet features available on its predecessor.

This chip supports H.264 video encoding and capable of playing Full HD video and support for Windows CE and Embedded Linux in addition to Android operating system.

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