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Amlogic Inc.
Company typePublic
SSE: 688099
IndustrySemiconductors
FoundedMarch 14, 1995; 29 years ago (1995-03-14)
Headquarters
Santa Clara, California
,
USA
Area served
Worldwide, but primarily China
Key people
John Zhong (CEO)
ProductsSoC integrated circuits
Number of employees
540 (2013) [citation needed]
Websitewww.amlogic.com
Footnotes / references
[1][2]

Amlogic Inc. (sometimes stylized AMLogic) is a fabless semiconductor company that was founded on March 14, 1995, in Santa Clara, California and is predominantly focused on designing and selling system on a chip integrated circuits. Like most fabless companies in the industry, the company outsources the actual manufacturing of its chips to third-party independent chip manufacturers such as TSMC. Its main target applications as of 2021 are entertainment devices such as Android TV-based devices and IPTV/OTT set-top boxes, media dongles, smart TVs and tablets. It has offices in Shanghai, Shenzhen, Beijing, Xi'an, Chengdu, Hefei, Nanjing, Qingdao, Taipei, Hong Kong, Seoul, Mumbai, London, Munich, Indianapolis, Milan, Novi Sad and Santa Clara, California.[3]

It developed Video CD player chips and later chips for DVD players and other applications involving MPEG2 decoding.[4] Am logic was involved in the creation of the HVD (High-Definition Versatile Disc) standard promoted in China as an alternative to DVD video disks used in DVD players.[5] The company was a player in the developing Chinese tablet processor market since 2010–2013.[6][7]

Am logic is an ARM licensee[8][9] and uses the ARM architecture in the majority of its products as of 2014. According to a joint press release with ARM in 2013, it was the first company to use ARM's Mali-450 GPU in a configuration with six cores or more.[10]

Products

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Tablet computer SoC

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AML8726 family

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  • Amlogic AML8726-M – Legacy single core ARM Cortex A9-based SoC with ARM Mali-400 GPU released in 2011, with a 16-bit DRAM interface and manufactured on a 65 nm process.[6][11]
  • Amlogic AML8726-M3 – Legacy single-core ARM Cortex A9-based SoC with ARM Mali-400 GPU, released in 2012, with a 16-bit DRAM interface and manufactured on a 45 nm process.[12]
  • Am logic MX (also known as AML8726-M6) – Dual-core ARM Cortex A9-based SoC with ARM Mali-400 MP2 GPU, released in 2012 on a 40 nm process.[13][14]

M8 family (announced 2013)

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  • Am logic M802 (originally called AML8726-M8) – Quad-core ARM Cortex A9-based SoC with ARM Mali-450 MP6 GPU[10][15] running at 600 MHz.[16] Supports 4 GB DRAM and 4K2K display output. 64-bit DRAM interface, manufactured on a 28 nm HPM process.[17]
  • Amlogic M801 – Similar to M802 but with DRAM limited to 2 GB and display output limited to 1080p.[13][17]
  • Amlogic M805 – Quad-core ARM Cortex-A5-based SoC with Mali-450 MP2 GPU in a reduced-size 12 mm x 12 mm LFBGA package.[13][17]

The M801/802 uses a new version of ARM's Cortex-A9 core (A9r4) that theoretically allows for higher clock speeds and lower power consumption compared to older versions of the Cortex A9 core such as the A9r3 used in Rockchip RK3188.[17]

Originally scheduled to be in production as early as the middle of 2013[18] in the form of the AML8726-M8, as of April 2014, only one tablet (Onda V975M)[19] has been announced using a chip from the M8 family.

A few manufacturers have shown Android TV boxes using the M802 (Shenzhen Tomato Technology,[15] Tronsmart,[20] Eny Technology[20] and GeniaTech[21]). It has been noted that some devices using the M802 may run hot and use a heatsink for cooling.[15] This is common among other popular OTT set top boxes such as the Amazon Fire TV which uses a metal shell to disperse heat, much like a heatsink would.[22]

TV SoCs

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　 T966 T968 T962 T950 T920L
Process 28 nm HKMG 28 nm HKMG 28 nm HKMG
CPU Quad-core Cortex-A53 Quad-core Cortex-A53 Quad-core Cortex-A53 Quad-core Cortex-A53 Dual-core Cortex-A53
GPU Mali-T830 MP2

OpenGL ES 3.1

Mali-T830 MP2

OpenGL ES 3.1

Mali-450 MP5

OpenGL ES 2.0

Mali-450

OpenGL ES 2.0, OpenVG 1.1

Mali-450

OpenGL ES 2.0, OpenVG 1.1

SDRAM DDR3/3L/4 DDR3/3L/4 DDR3/3L/4 DDR3/3L DDR3/3L
Storage eMMC 5.0, SD eMMC 5.0, SD eMMC 5.0, SD eMMC 5.0, SD eMMC 5.0, SD
USB 3.0*1+2.0*3 3.0*1+2.0*3 2.0*4 2.0*3 2.0*3
Video Decoding 4Kp60 10-bit H.265

4Kp30 H.264

4Kp60 10-bit H.265

4Kp30 H.264

4Kp60 10-bit H.265

4Kp30 H.264

4Kp30 10-bit H.265

1080p60 H.264

4Kp30 10-bit H.265

1080p60 H.264

Video Encoding 1080p30 H.264 1080p30 H.264 1080p30 H.264 1080p30 H.264 /
Video Output 4Kp60 HDMI 2.0b Tx V-by-One, LVDS V-by-One, LVDS LVDS LVDS
Video Input HDMI 2.0b, CVBS HDMI 2.0b, CVBS HDMI 2.0b, CVBS HDMI 2.0b, CVBS HDMI 1.4b, CVBS
Ethernet 10/100/1000M MAC 10/100/1000M MAC 10/100/1000M MAC+PHY 10/100M MAC+PHY 10/100M MAC+PHY
TV DEMOD DTMB+, DVB-C DTMB+, DVB-C, ATV DTMB+, DVB-C, ATV DTMB+, DVB-C, ATV DTMB+
HDR HDR 10 HDR 10 HDR 10, HLG HDR 10, HLG /
Application Xiaomi Split TV 4 / Xiaomi Split TV 3S Xiaomi Mi TV 4 (India) / Xiaomi TV 3S /

TCL P2 / Max 6 / Xiaomi laser-projection /

Inovel ME2 / Skyworth V8 / Haier Xiaoshuai U3S

Xiaomi Mi TV 4 Pro 4A 32"/43" (India) / Skyworth G6A / TCL P4 Xiaomi 32"/43" TV (China) 　

Media player SoCs (S8 family)

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Amlogic also offers SoC products (S802, S805, and S812) specifically targeting Android TV boxes and OTT set-top boxes (which are variations of similar SoCs in the M series targeting tablets).[23]

S8**-H models include Dolby/DTS licenses.

Media player SoCs (S9 family)

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First 64-bit Amlogic Products lineup. On August 28, 2016, all members of the S9 family were reported to be internally limited to 1.5 GHz instead of the advertised 2.0 GHz clock rate. As of that date, it was not clear if the limitation was due to hardware, firmware or software issues.[25][26]

  • Amlogic S805X – A low cost version of S905X SoC with 1.2 GHz quad-core ARM Cortex-A53-based SoC with a Mali-450 MP3 GPU, with hardware support for HEVC/H.265/VP9 decoding up to 1080p.
  • Amlogic S905 – Quad-core ARM Cortex-A53-based SoC with a Mali-450 MP3 GPU running at 750 MHz,[16] supports hardware decoding up to 4K@60fps for multiple formats including H.265 10-bit, H.264, AVS+.
  • Amlogic S905X – Similar to S905 except it supports up to 4K@60fps VP9 profile-2 hardware decoding, HDR, HDMI 2.0a and having a built-in DAC.
  • Amlogic S905L – Similar to S905X except it supports HDMI 2.0b but lack VP9 decoding, camera interface and TS inputs.
  • Amlogic S905D – Similar to S905X except it supports DVP (Digital Video Port) interface.[27]
  • Amlogic S905W – A low cost variant of the S905X, it supports video decoding only up to 4K@30fps.
  • Amlogic S905Z – Similar to S905X (VP9 hardware decoding, HDR, 4K@60fps ...), but no more details known about it, used in the third generation Amazon Fire TV and the Fire TV Cube.
  • Amlogic S912 – Octa-core ARM Cortex-A53-based SoC (Big.LITTLE configuration 4x1.5 GHz and 4x1.0 GHz) with a Mali-T820 MP3 GPU running at 600 MHz.[16]
  • Amlogic S922X – Hexa-core ARM Cortex-A73 & ARM Cortex-A55-based SoC (Big.LITTLE configuration 4x1.8 GHz and 4x1.9 GHz) with a Mali-G52 MP4 GPU running at 800 MHz.[16]
  • Amlogic S928X – Penta-core ARM Cortex-A76 & ARM Cortex-A55-based SoC (Big.LITTLE configuration 1x1.8 GHz and 4x2.0 GHz) with a Mali-G57 MC2 GPU running at 800 MHz.[16]

S9**(*)-H models include Dolby/DTS licenses.

Devices based on them are already in the market running Android 5.1 to 7.1, they are usually paired with 1 GB, 2 GB or 3 GB RAM, 8 GB to 64 GB flash memory, they have features such as a Gigabit Lan and Dual band 2.4G/5G A/C WiFi.

S905X was scheduled to be released in Q1 2016 while S905D and S912 were scheduled for Q2 2016. All three of the SoCs have Android Marshmallow and Buildroot Linux SDKs released.

　 S905L S905X S905D S912
Process 28 nm HKMG 28 nm HKMG 28 nm HKMG 28 nm HKMG
CPU Quad-core Cortex-A53 Quad-core Cortex-A53 Quad-core Cortex-A53 Octa-core Cortex-A53
GPU Mali-450

OpenGL ES 2.0

Mali-450

OpenGL ES 2.0

Mali-450

OpenGL ES 2.0

Mali-T820 MP3

OpenGL ES 3.1

SDRAM DDR3/4, LPDDR2/3 DDR3/4, LPDDR2/3 DDR3/4, LPDDR2/3 DDR3/4, LPDDR2/3
Storage NAND flash

eMMC 5.0, SD, NOR flash

NAND Flash

eMMC 5.0, SD, NOR Flash

NAND Flash

eMMC 5.0, SD, NOR Flash

NAND Flash

eMMC 5.0, SD, NOR Flash

USB 2.0*2 2.0*2 2.0*2 2.0*3
Video Decoding 4Kp60 10-bit H.265

4Kp30 H.264

4Kp60 10-bit H.265

4Kp60 VP9 Profile2 4Kp30 H.264

4Kp60 10-bit H.265

4Kp60 VP9 Profile2 4Kp30 H.264

4Kp60 10-bit H.265

4Kp60 VP9 Profile2 4Kp30 H.264

Video Encoding 1080p60 H.264 1080p60 H.264 1080p60 H.264 1080p60 H.265/H.264
Video Output HDMI 2.0b/HDCP 2.2

CVBS

HDMI 2.0b/HDCP 2.2

CVBS

HDMI 2.0b/HDCP 2.2

CVBS, RGB

HDMI 2.0b/HDCP 2.2

CVBS, RGB

Video Input / / TS in, DVP TS in, DVP
Ethernet 10/100M MAC+PHY 10/100M MAC+PHY 10/100/1000 RGMII

10/100M MAC+PHY

10/100/1000 RGMII

10/100M MAC+PHY

Audio Output Stereo DACs

I2S, SPDIF, DMIC

Stereo DACs

I2S, SPDIF, DMIC

Stereo DACs

I2S, SPDIF, DMIC

Stereo DACs

I2S, SPDIF, DMIC

HDR HDR 10, HLG HDR 10, HLG HDR 10, HLG Dolby Vision, HDR 10, HLG
Application IPTV TMALL M17 / Xiaomi box 3S /

Skyworth&JBL CINEMA STV215 /

HF 10 / ATV195X / ZTE B860H /

PPBOX P1 / Amazon Fire TV

Rokid Pebble / (O.B.E projector) TMALL M16S / TMALL 3Pro / Raven-H / Phicomm T1 / JJ box

Media player SoCs (S9 family gen 2)

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At IBC 2018 Amlogic showed to the public for the first time their second generation SoCs for media players on reference boards running Android TV 9.[28]

  • Amlogic S905X2 – Quad-core ARM Cortex-A53-based SoC with a Mali-G31 MP2 "Dvalin" GPU and adds to the first generation SoCs support to HDMI 2.1 at 4k60 and to the HDR formats of Dolby vision and TCH Prime.[29]
  • Amlogic S905Y2 – Silmilar to the S905X2, built for smaller HDMI dongles and because of that it loses some features like Ethernet, DVP (Digital Video Port) interface, CVBS (Composite video).[29]
  • Amlogic S922X – Quad-core ARM Cortex-A73+Dual-Core ARM Cortex-A53-based SoC with a Mali-G52 MP4 GPU.[28]
　 S905X2 S905Y2 S922X
CPU Process 12 nm 12 nm 12 nm
CPU Quad-core Cortex-A53 Quad-core Cortex-A53 Quad-core Cortex-A73+Dual-Core CortexA53
GPU Mali-G31 MP2

Vulkan 1.0, OpenGL ES 3.2

Mali-G31 MP2

Vulkan 1.0, OpenGL ES 3.2

Mali-G52 MP4

Vulkan 1.0, OpenGL ES 3.2

SDRAM DDR3/3L/4, LPDDR3/4 DDR3/3L/4, LPDDR3/4 DDR3/3L/4, LPDDR3/4
Storage SLC NAND Flash, eMMC 5.0,

SD, SPI NOR/NAND

SLC NAND Flash, eMMC 5.0,

SD, SPI NOR/NAND

SLC/MLC/TLC NAND Flash, eMMC 5.0,

SDSC/SDXC/SDHC/SDIO, SPI NOR/NAND

USB 3.0 2.0 3.0
Video Decoding 4Kp60 10-bit H.265,

4Kp60 VP9 Profile2, 4Kp30 H.264

4Kp60 10-bit H.265,

4Kp60 VP9 Profile2, 4Kp30 H.264

4Kp60 10-bit H.265,

4Kp60 VP9 Profile2, 4Kp30 H.264

Video Encoding 1080p60 H.264/H.265 1080p60 H.264/H.265 1080p60 H.264/H.265
Video Output HDMI 2.1 HDMI 2.1 HDMI 2.1
Video Input TS in, DVP TS in TS in, DVP, MIPI
Wifi/Bluetooth MIMO 2T2R Wifi / BT 5.0 MIMO 2T2R Wifi / BT 5.0 MIMO 2T2R Wifi / BT 5.0
Ethernet 10/100/1000 MAC+ 10/100 PHY None 10/100/1000 MAC+ 10/100 PHY
Audio Output ? ? Stereo DAC

I2S, SPDIF, DMIC

HDR HDR10, HDR10+, HLG,

Dolby Vision, TCH Prime

HDR10, HDR10+, HLG,

Dolby Vision, TCH Prime

HDR10, HDR10+, HLG,

Dolby Vision, TCH Prime

Package 14 mm × 14 mm BGA 10.9 mm × 10.9 mm BGA 16.1 mm × 14.3 mm BGA

Media player SoCs (S9 family gen 3)

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  • Amlogic S905X3 – quad core Cortex-A55 SoC. The S905X3 has an optional Neural Network Accelerator with 1.2 TOPS NN inference accelerator supporting TensorFlow and Caffe.[30] Arm Mali G31 MP2 GPU with support for OpenGL ES 3.2, Vulkan 1.0 and OpenCL 2.0 support.
  • Amlogic S922D – Quad-core ARM Cortex-A73+Dual-Core ARM Cortex-A53-based SoC with a Mali-G52 MP4 GPU. The S922D has a Neural Network Accelerator with 2.5 TOPS (16-bit?) and 5.0 TOPS (8-bit?) NN inference accelerator supporting TensorFlow and Caffe.[31]

Media player SoCs (S8 & S9 family gen 4)

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According to a leaked roadmap, Amlogic was to launch its next generation of media processors starting from Q4 2019.[32] The main new feature is support of AV1 video decoding in hardware. Three new SoCs are in development:

  • Amlogic S905X4 (Q4 2019): Mid-range SoC pin-compatible with S905X2 and -X3 processors. Adds 4k 120fps AV1 decoding.[33]
  • Amlogic S805X2 (Q2 2020): Low-end SoC with at least 1080p AV1 decoding. Quad-core ARM Cortex-A35 based SoC with Mali G31 MP2 GPU.
  • Amlogic S908X (Q3 2020): High-end SoC with 8K 60fps AV1 and AVS3 decoding, HDMI 2.1 and unknown CPU and GPU.[34]
  • Amlogic S905Y4 (Q3 2022): Quad-core ARM Cortex-A35 based SoC with a Mali-G31 MP2 GPU. Adds AV1 hardware decoding (AV1 MP-10@L5.1 up to 4Kx2K@60fps).
　 S905Y4
CPU Process 12 nm
CPU Quad-core Cortex-A35
GPU Mali-G31 MP2

Vulkan 1.0, OpenGL ES 3.2

SDRAM DDR3/3L/4, LPDDR3/4
Storage SLC NAND Flash, eMMC 5.0,

SDSC/SDXC/SDHC/SDIO

USB 3.0
Video Decoding 4Kp60 10-bit H.265,

4Kp60 VP9 Profile2, 4Kp60 AV1, 4Kp30 H.264

Video Encoding H.264/VP8 (via software encoder)
Video Output HDMI 2.1
Video Input TS in
Wifi/Bluetooth MIMO 2T2R Wifi / BT 5.0
Ethernet 10/100 MAC 10/100 PHY
Audio Output Stereo DAC

SPDIF, TDM/PCM/I2s interface

HDR HDR 10, HDR10+, HLG,

Dolby Vision, TCH Prime

Package 11 mm x 13.3 mm BGA

Smart speakers and audio applications SoCs

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In Q3 2017 Amlogic released new SoCs targeting smart speakers and audio applications.

  • Amlogic A111 – Quad-core ARM Cortex-A5-based SoC,2-channel I2S input and output, TDM/PCM input and output, up to 8 channels, S/PDIF output, Ethernet 100M and RGB888 output
  • Amlogic A112 – Quad-core ARM Cortex-A53-based SoC, 8-channel I2S and S/PDIF input and output, TDM/PCM input and output, up to 8 channels, 2-channel PDM input, Ethernet 1Gig and LVDS/MIPI-DSI panel output
  • Amlogic A113 – Similar to A112 except it support 16 I2S channels, 8 PDM channels.
　 A111 A112 A113
Process 28 nm HKMG 28 nm HKMG 28 nm HKMG
CPU Quad-core Cortex-A5 Quad-core Cortex-A53 Quad-core Cortex-A53
SDRAM DDR3 DDR3/4 DDR3/4
I2S 2ch I2S input/output 8ch I2S input/output 8ch I2S input/output
PDM - 2ch 8ch
TDM Yes Yes Yes
SPDIF input/output input/output input/output
Panel MIPI/LVDS RGB MIPI
Application Harman Kardon allure Xiaomi AI Speaker / Yeelight Speaker Amazon Alexa / Sengled / Xiaomi AI Speaker HD
  • Amlogic A311X – Support 2ch sensor input maximum 8M pixel ISP. Neural Network Accelerator up to 5 Tops. Quad core ARM Cortex-A73 and dual core ARM Cortex-A53 high performance CPU architecture. Low latency 1080p H.265/H.264 60fps encoder. USB3.0/PCIE High speed data interface. Power management auxiliary processor.
  • Amlogic A311D – Hexa-core SoC featuring 4x ARM Cortex-A73 cores and 2 ARM Cortex-A53 cores. The GPU would be a 4-core Mali-G52 ARM with support for Vulkan 1.1, OpenGL 3.2 and OpenCL 2.2. It also has a Neural Processing Unit (NPU) for AI inference. The VPU supports 4K2K@60 Hz with CEC, HDR and 4K decoding h.265, VP9 and AVS2.[35]

Smart Vision series SoCs

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Wireless Connectivity series products

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  • Amlogic W155S1 – Amlogic W155S1 is an integrated Wi-Fi and Bluetooth combo chip. It has a host interface of SDIO3.0 for Wi-Fi and UART HS for Bluetooth. Wi-Fi is designed to be fully compliant with IEEE 802.11ac standard and operated at both 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz band. It can support up-to 80 MHz bandwidth and PHY data rate of 433 Mbit/s. Located in the same die is the Bluetooth system that can support both Classic BDR/EDR and BLE mode.

Connectivity Connectivity – USB 2.0, USB 3.0, HDMI 2.1 Wi-Fi -Wi-Fi/IEEE 2.4 GHz/5 GHz 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac/ax Bluetooth-Bluetooth 4.1 Audio-SPDIF, PCM, TDM, PDM, I2S, DAC

Automotive Electronics series products

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  • Amlogic V901D – 64-bit quad core ARM Cortex-A55 CPU, ARM Mali-G31 MP2 GPU processor, Neural Network Processor up to 1 Tops, HIFI 4 DSP for ultra-low power far-field voice, Automotive AEC-Q100 grade 3, HW UHD 4K AV1/H.265/VP9 10-bit video decoder, DolbyVision, HDR10/10+, HLG, Prime HDR, HDMI 2.1 receivers with dynamic HDR, ALLM, eARC and HDCP 1.4/2.2/2.3 support, PDM/I2S/TDM interface for far-field voice.

Other products

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The Amlogic MX, S802 and S805 SoCs are also targeted at media dongles.[38]

Amlogic also offers SoCs targeting smart TVs and projectors, including M6L, M6C, M6D, M948, T826, T828, T866, T868, T962, T966 and T968.[39]

Comparison table

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Model Number Fab CPU GPU Memory Technology Ethernet

Speed

Hardware

Decoding

Hardware

Encoding

Sampl. Avail-
ability 		Utilizing Devices
ISA μarch Cores Freq.

(GHz)

μarch Freq.

(MHz)

Type Bus width
AML8726-M 65 nm ARMv7-A Cortex-A9 1 1.0 Mali 400 MP 250 DDR3/3L

533 MHz

32-bit 100M H.264 1080p 30fps 2011 OTT/IP/DVB STB, TV dongle, Smart home
AML8726-M3 40 nm 2012
AML8726-MX/MXS/M6 2 1.5 Mali 400 MP2 400 DDR3/3L,

LPDDR2

533 MHz

Tablet, TV dongle
AML7366-M6C DDR3/3L,

LPDDR2/3

800 MHz

2011 OTT/IP/DVB STB, TV dongle, Smart home
M801, M802 28 nm

HKMG

Cortex-A9r4 4 2.0 Mali 450 MP6 600 64-bit H.265 4K 30fps H.264 1080p 30fps Tablet
M805, M806 Cortex-A5 1.5 Mali 450 MP2 500 32-bit ? H.265 1080p 60fps Tablet, Smart projector
T826 Mali 450 MP4 600 ? H.264 720p 30fps Smart TV, Smart projector
T828 ? Smart TV
T866 Cortex-A9r4 1.8 Mali 450 MP6 64-bit 1GbE H.265 4K 30fps H.264 1080p 60fps Smart TV, Smart projector
T868 H.264 1080p 30fps Smart TV
T962 ARMv8-A Cortex-A53 1.5 Mali 450 MP3 750 ? 100M Smart TV
T966 1.8 Mali T830 MP2 650 ? 1GbE Smart TV
List
T968 ?
S802 ARMv7-A Cortex-A9r4 4 2.0 Mali 450 MP6 600 DDR3/3L,

LPDDR2/3

800 MHz

32-bit 100M H.265 720p,

H.264 4K HP@L5.1 30fps (AVC) 60fps (MVC)

H.264 1080p 30fps Q1 2014 OTT/IP/DVB STB, TV dongle, Smart home
List
  • Xiaomi's Mi Box Pro,[40] Baidu's Shadow Stick 3,[41] Tronsmart's Vega Elite S89,[42] and the MINIX NEO X8-H.[43]
S805 Cortex-A5 1.5 Mali 450 MP2 500 32-bit H.265 1080p MP@L4.1 60fps,

H.264 4K HP@L4.2 60fps

Q2 2014 OTT/IP/DVB STB, TV dongle, Smart home
List
S805X ARMv8-A Cortex-A53 1.2 Mali 450 MP3 ? ? ? H.265, H.264, VP9 1080p (60fps?) H.264 1080p 2017
S812 ARMv7-A Cortex-A9r4 2.0 Mali 450 MP6 600 DDR3/3L,

LPDDR2/3

800 MHz

32-bit H.265 4K 30fps,

H.264 4K HP@L5.1 30fps (AVC) 60fps (MVC)

H.264 1080p 30fps Q2 2014 OTT/IP/DVB STB, TV dongle, Tablet, Smart home
List
S905 ARMv8-A Cortex-A53 1.5[25][26] Mali 450 MP3 750 DDR3/3L,

LPDDR2/3 1066 MHz

64-bit[47] H.265 4K MP-10@L5.1 60fps,

H.264 4K HP@L5.1 30fps (AVC) 60fps (MVC)

H.264 1080p 60fps Q2 2015 OTT/IP/DVB STB, TV dongle, Smart home
List
S905W ? ? ?
S905L 64-bit[48]}
S905D DDR3/3L,

LPDDR2/3 1200 MHz

H.265 4K MP-10@L5.1 60fps,

VP9 4K profile 2 60fps,

H.264 4K HP@L5.1 30fps (AVC) 60fps (MVC)

S905X Q2 2016 OTT/IP/DVB STB, TV dongle, Smart home
List
S912 8 Mali T820 MP3 1GbE H.265 1080p 60fps Q2 2016
S905Y2 12 nm 4 1.8 Mali G31 MP2 850 DDR3/3L/4, LPDDR3/4 1066 MHz ? H.265 4K MP-10@L5.1 75fps,

VP9 4K profile 2 60fps, H.264 4K HP@L5.1 30fps (AVC) 60fps (MVC)

H.265 4K 75fps Q4 2018
S905X2 H.265 4K 75fps Q3 2019
S905X3 ARMv8.2-A [51] Cortex-A55 1.91 H.265 4K 75fps Q4 2019
S905X4 ARMv8.2-A [52] Cortex-A55 H.265 4K MP-10@L5.1 75fps,

VP9 4K profile 2 60fps,

H.264 4K HP@L5.1 30fps (AVC) 60fps (MVC)

4Kp120 AV1

Q4 2019
S922X ARMv8-A [53] Cortex-A73 + Cortex-A53 4 + 2 1.8 + 1.9 Mali G52 MP6 800 DDR3/DDR3L/LPDDR3 1066 MHz, DDR4 1333 MHz, LPDDR4 1600 MHz 1GbE H.265 4K MP-10@L5.1 60fps,

VP9 4K profile 2 60fps,

H.264 4K HP@L5.1 30fps (AVC) 60fps (MVC)

H.265 4K 60fps Q4 2017
A311D ARMv8-A [53] Cortex-A73 + Cortex-A53 4 + 2 1.8 + 1.9 Mali G52 MP4 800 DDR3/DDR3L/LPDDR3 1066 MHz, DDR4 1333 MHz, LPDDR4 1600 MHz ?? H.265 4K MP-10@L5.1 60fps,

VP9 4K profile 2 60fps,

H.264 4K HP@L5.1 30fps (AVC) 60fps (MVC)

H.265 4K 60fps Q2 2019
S922XJ ARMv8-A [54] Cortex-A73 + Cortex-A53 2 + 4 2.2 + 1.9 Mali G52 MP6 820 DDR4-1320/LPDDR4 1GbE H.265 4K MP-10@L5.1 60fps,

VP9 4K profile 2 60fps,

H.264 4K HP@L5.1 30fps (AVC) 60fps (MVC)

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Markets and sales

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Amlogic does not publish sales or financial information on its website.

The company is listed as a client of several venture capital firms.[56][57]

In the market for SoCs targeting Chinese tablet manufacturers and manufacturers of Android media players, TV boxes and media dongles, it faces competition primarily from Rockchip, Allwinner Technology, Actions Semiconductor, MediaTek, Intel and Realtek.[58][59][60][61] Amlogic was reported to be fourth largest application processor supplier for Chinese tablets in 2012.[7] For Q2 2014, Amlogic was reported to be the fifth largest supplier, after Rockchip, MediaTek, Allwinner and Actions Semiconductor.[62] Chinese SoC suppliers that do not have cellular baseband technology are at a disadvantage compared to companies such as MediaTek that also supply the smartphone market as white-box tablet makers increasingly add phone functionality to their products.[63]

In 2011, the AML8726-M was selected as one of the "hottest" processors by EE Times China,[6] while in 2012, the AML8726-MX won EE Times-China's Processor of the Year award.[64]

Open source commitment

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Amlogic maintains a website[65] dedicated to providing source code for the Linux kernel and Android SDK supporting Amlogic chips and reference designs. The Linux kernel source code is freely available, and has recently (as of April 2014) been updated to support certain chips in the M8 family as well as the older MX family, with Android versions up to 4.4 (KitKat) being supported (based on Linux kernel version 3.10.x). However, the Android SDK requires a NDA and is only available to business partners. The source code includes Linux kernel 3.10.10, U-Boot, Realtek and Broadcom Wi-Fi drivers, NAND drivers, "TVIN" drivers, and kernel space GPU drivers for the Mali-400/450 GPU.[66] XBMC/Kodi Amlogic S805 / M805 / S806 / M806 / S812 Android video decoding compatibility list: Android hardware - Official Kodi Wiki

However an effort to push Linux upstream support for the GX ARM64 lineup is ongoing on Linux for Amlogic — Linux for Amlogic Meson https://gitlab.com/pages/sphinx documentation. Currently[when?] only the AML8726MX, S802, S805 and S905 SoC are booting headless on Linux 4.8. But S905X, S905D and S912 Headless support is expected for Linux 4.10.[67]

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