Mobile World Congress - Barcelona, Spain, February, 25th,
2014 - Allwinner Technology, a worldwide leader in mobile application processor
design, today unveiled its next-generation UltraOcta A80 processor, the world's
first ARM® big.LITTLE™ octa-core heterogeneous SoC design to include a PowerVR
Series6 GPU.
Packed with four ARM Cortex®-A7 and four Cortex-A15 CPU
cores, Allwinner’s UltraOcta processor is slated to bring premium performance
devices to consumers at lower price points, opening new market spaces and
driving value innovation opportunities across tablets, OTT media players,
notebook PCs, all-in-ones, and even smart TVs.
Mike Zhang, CEO, Allwinner Technology, said: "For
the past year, our worldwide customer base has grown significantly, enabling us
to deliver high quality products at extremely affordable prices. OEMs from all
tiers – top, middle, and low – recognize our leading market position and
continue to choose our processors to deliver outstanding value to their
customers.”
“Fundamentally, the UltraOcta A80 and its platforms give
OEMs the highest performance, most power-efficient and cost-effective solution
for a range of devices, including tablets, portable game consoles, STBs, media
players and many others. We’re excited to see the first UltraOcta devices hit
the market soon.”
“We are pleased to see Allwinner delivering a leading
solution for 2014 mobile devices that demand premium performance and energy
efficiency enabled by an ARM big.LITTLE system pairing the Cortex-A15 and
Cortex-A7 processors,” said Nandan Nayampally, vice president of marketing, CPU
group, ARM. “We look forward to seeing real devices based on the UltraOcta A80
processor coming to market in the next few months to provide users with an
outstanding user experience enabled by big.LITTLE technology.”