CES 2011: Hands on with Rockchip RK2918 A8 Chipset

Rockchip shows its latest 29xx series chips in the 2011 CES, these RK29XX series chips take the lead… in supporting the 1080p VP8 videos decoding on the Android platform and will support online TV later.

Here is the detailed information of the RK2918 A8 Chipset:

1.2G ARM Cortex A8 inner core

Neon co-processor and 512kb Cache

2D/3D graphic processor, supports OpenGL ES 2.0 AND Open VG, 60M tri/s at most.

H.264, VP8, RV, WMV, AVS, H.263, MPEG4 and other forms of videos 1080p decode

It supports: DDR 3, DDR 2 and Mobile DDR Memory;

24bit hardware ECC MLC NAND, e-MMC boot;

Front and back 5.0megapixel cameras;

HD videos of 8 channels I2S and SPDIF output;

VoIP online video;

There are 3 USB interfaces, 2 SD ports, so the USB devices, 3G module, SD card and WIFI module are all available.

Standard TFT/EPD controller and Ethernet interface are all supported by this chip and it not only supports the Android 2.3 but also the higher versions.