AllWinner Processor Development Plans to 2015: A23, A6X, A7X, A8X and A9X

The Chinese chip maker, Allwinner, recently announced plans to release AllWinner's SoC until 2015. For 2014, it is planned to release a processor on the cortex A7 / A15 big.LITTLE architecture. For 2015, the Cortex A53 / A57 Big.LITTLE processor (the number of cores is not known).

• AllWinner A23 is a dual-core cortex A7 @ 1.5 Ghz with a Mali-400MP2 GPU, and a 40nm process technology. Scheduled for the third quarter of 2013, the tablets will be presented this month.
• AllWinner A6X is a quad cortex A7 / A15 (big.LITTLE) @ 2.0GHz, GPU with an increased performance of 1.7x (in comparison with SGX544MP2 in A31?). Scheduled for Q2 2014.
• AllWinner WX is a quad-core processor for wearable devices (for example: smartwatches smart watches). Scheduled for Q4 2014.
• AllWinner A8X (A80) is an eight-core cortex A7 / A15 @ 2.0GHz processor with a 2-fold increase in GPU performance. Scheduled for the first quarter of 2014.
• A llWinner A7X (A70) - “Economical configuration option big.LITTLE” eight-core processor. Scheduled for the first quarter of 2015.
• AllWinner A9X is an eight-core processor with A53 / A57 cores (64-bit!) With an increased performance of 4 times the GPU, compared to the SGX544MP2 in the A31. It will be manufactured on 16 or 20 nm process technology, and will be available in the 4th quarter of 2015.
  

Published plans mean the appearance of fairly cheap devices, based on eight-core processors big.LITTLE AllWinner A80 in a short time (first or second quarter of 2014
More accurate information is missing, with the exception of the new AllWinner A23 processor

Specifications processor AllWinner A23

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• CPU - ARM Cortex-A7 Dual-Core with 128KB L1 Cache, 256KB L2 Cache
• GPU - ARM Mali 400MP2 with support for OpenGL ES 2.0 / VG 1.1
• Video
  
  • 1080p @ 60fps, FHD. Formats Mpeg1 / 2, Mpeg4 SP / ASP GMC, H.263, H.264, WMV9 / VC-1.
  • H.264 High Profile 1080p @ 60fps
  • stream with RTSP, HTTP, HLS, RTMP, MMS
  • OpenMax protocol support
  
  
• Screen
  
  • 1/2/4-lane MIPI DSI up to 1280 × 800 resolution
  • MIPI DSI V1.01 and MIPI D-PHY V1.00
  • command mode and video mode
  • RGB / CPU / LVDS LCD up to 1280 × 800 resolution
  
  
• Camera
  
  • Integrated parallel camera interface
  • 5M CMOS sensor support
  • support 8-bit YUV sensor
  
  
• Memory - DDR3 / DDR3L SDRAM, and 8-bit NAND Flash controller
• Audio - Integrated Hi-Fi audio codec, two integrated independent lines per microphone and headset, support for talk with standby mode for very low power consumption.
• Power - AXP223 PMIC. Supports 21-channel power and 2.1A in charging mode, compatible with USB 3.0 standard.

AllWinner provided the Android 4.2.2 SDK for this processor.

AllWinner A23, is a budget version of the A20 AllWinner, without Ethernet and SATA support, with a maximum resolution of 1280 × 800, which indicates use in low-cost tablets. Increased the frequency from 1.0 GHz to 1.5 GHz, possibly due to the transition to a smaller process technology (40 nm vs. 55 nm). The power consumption was reduced by 50 mA in audio playback mode, by 2.6mA in standby mode.
OpenMAX support will make software development easier and cheaper for developers, because do not have to pay deductions in the case of using CedarX.

A23-based tablets will be available this month, but some Chinese news sites received ready-made device prototypes (8 ”, with a resolution of 1024 * 768), with a performance of 12,500 points in Antutu 4.0.3. More details can be read (in Chinese): 1pad.cn and imp3.net.