AllWinner Tech A10

[Chuckt]

Currently, in order to have video, people are thinking about using the Raspberry Pi, FPGA, the EVE chip, the 4D system board or something else. There is an Arm device that has a GPU built in.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allwinner_A1X

The Allwinner A1X, known under Linux as sunxi, is a family of single-core SoC devices designed by Allwinner Technology from Zhuhai, China. Currently the family consists of the A10,[1] A13,[2] A10s[3] and A12. The SoCs incorporate the ARM Cortex-A8 as its main processor[4] and the Mali 400 as the GPU.

The video formats include:

Multi-channel HD displays
Built-in HDMI
YPbPr, CVBS, VGA
LCD interfaces: CPU, RGB, LVDS up to Full 1080P HDTV

[brad]

Any idea of the cost of one of these?

[Chuckt]

It is basically a Chinese chip and the web suggests it costs $7 but the chip and development boards look advanced.

If you put this link in Google Translate, you will see what I'm talking about:

http://www.wits-tech.com/pages/board.jsp

http://rhombus-tech.net/allwinner_a10/

http://liliputing.com/2011/12/allwinner ... akers.html

[brad]

There are plenty of 8-bit microcontrollers that cost a whole heap more than that, so $7 is very impressive. Technology certain is moving ahead in leaps and bounds!