Well-known Chinese manufacturer of processors, the company Allwinner in January announced its plans to further develop the chips. In particular, they talked about the new 64-bit chip ARM Cortex-A53, the value of which has to be very, very low. Now the company has announced the launch next month of mass production of 64-bit processors Allwinner A64, the cost of which will amount to a mere $ 5.
It is expected that the first unit processor Allwinner A64 come in the second half of 2015. Despite the fact that the chip itself is very inexpensive, it offers pretty good performance. This 4-core processor with graphics ARM Mali-400 MP2 support H.265 video playback and storage eMMC 5.0. Also, according to Allwinner, the processor will cope perfectly with the operating system Android 5.1.
CPU Allwinner already used in pretty good budget tablets, set-top boxes and other devices. However, as the company has in the portfolio are powerful enough chips. For example, Allwinner A80 Octa. It will be interesting to see how much power will show Soup based on Allwinner A64. Perhaps soon we will see a decent device for $ 50 or less.