A Tablet Android 4.0 under $ 100, with SoC MIPS

In China, the 4.0 to $ 99 Android Tablet began to be marketed. Soon available with us?

We had not really attention to announcements of a Chinese touch tablet on Android 4.0 sold below $ 100, simply because we thought not, blinded by the first articles on the Asus transforming premium and its Tegra 3. Yet, "world" this Ice Cream Sandwich Tablet cheap availability has been confirmed. It's a Tablet developed by MIPS Technology and mobile Ingenic Semiconductor, a supplier of CPU for multimedia applications. This tablet do so a CPU Ingenic (and non-hygienic... you seen coming!) JZ4770 equipped with a dual-core 1 GHz MIPS XBurst chip.

Ingenic Ainovo

In Google, it is rather content to see such a Tablet disembark. Andy Rubin, Vice President of mobile products, said: "I am delighted to see the entry of shelves Android 4.0 operator MIPS products." Shelves not expensive and efficient are necessarily interesting for the consumer and this shows that it is the spirit of opening Android. "We are for innovation and competition to the benefit of the consumer, and this all over the world".

Launched in China, this tablet (known as the Novo7) is also available via the Ainol Electronics site and begin to be delivered to the United States and elsewhere in the world in the coming months under several brands, including leading International (nothing to see... new callback to order with Leader Price!) and OMG Electronics (Oh my...!). Its technical features indicate a screen of 7 "multi-touch (and soon the models 8 and 9 inches), with WiFi n, USB 2.0, HDMI 1.3, microSD and a duo of sensors. 3D applications will receive a GPU living GC860, decoding 1080p video, while the architecture around two chips of multimedia processing allows the tablet to consume little energy in the common tasks. Talking about 400 mA in surfing Internet.

The SoC Ingenic JZ4770 is one of the first System on Chip developed by MIPS, specifically targeting mobile terminals in need of a powerful chip dual-core 1 GHz and more. The CPU XBurst this SoC integrates adopts an "ultra-low-power architecture that consumes less than 90 mW to 1 GHz (with cache L1) while the SoC whole consumes about 250 mW with the CPU and the video engine operating at full load. And all this for less than $ 100! And if it was she, the true "iPad Killer" under Android?


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