Allwinner A31 SoC is here with products and the A20 SoC, its A10 pin-compatible dual-core is coming in February 2013

With it even Qualcomm was left significantly behind (see the latest status of its SoCs intended for the 2013 market in: Qualcomm quad-core Cortex-A7 SoCs with Adreno 305 and 1080p coming for the high-volume global market and China [Dec 9, 2012]) Update: A31 Introduction by Allwinner Technology Co., Ltd [ARM Partners site, March 13, 2013] … Continue reading →

Is low-cost enough for global success?

Or, what Allwinner et al. and the device vendors around them will need in addition to the low device costs made possible by the SoC vendors themselves? (The new SoC market sweetspots established by Allwinner: the A10 is available @ $7 and the A13 is @ $5). In some markets, yes: Here Comes the First … Continue reading →

The upcoming Chinese tablet and device invasion lead by the Allwinner SoCs

Or a $99 Android 4.0.3 IPS 7” tablet with an Allwinner A10 SoC capable of 2160p Quad HD and built-in HDMI – another inflection point, from China again It is first time that we can see globally that China is on a different, significantly more effective price/performance/functionality trajectory of its own than anybody else. It … Continue reading →

$40 entry-level Allwinner tablets–now for the 220 million students Aakash project in India

Update: An Anti-iPad for India [MIT Technology Review, March 11, 2013] Suneet Singh Tuli, the man behind the ultracheap Aakash 2 tablet, says the West doesn’t understand mobile business in the developing world. … We did a study to understand where the inflection point for PC deployment in the U.S. was: when did PCs really … Continue reading →