Actions Semiconductor Co. Ltd.
Native name
炬力集成电路设计有限公司
IndustrySemiconductors
Founded2000; 23 years ago (2000)
Headquarters
Zhuhai, Guangdong
,
China
Area served
Worldwide
ProductsSoCs (ATMxxxx)
Websiteactions-semi.com

Actions Semiconductor Co. Ltd. (Chinese: 炬力集成; pinyin: Jùlì Jíchéng) is a Chinese fabless semiconductor company founded in 2000 and headquartered in Zhuhai, Guangdong province.[1] The company has about 600 employees and designs SoCs for tablets, digital audio players, photo viewers and related products.

Products

The following is a list of system-on-chips developed and marketed by Actions Semiconductor, mainly targeting tablets.

Model Number Application Process CPU Memory interface GPU Availability
ISA Processor # of Cores Frq (GHz)
ATM7013[2] Tablet ? MIPS 74Kf 1 1.1 8/16-bit DDR3[3] Vivante GC800
ATM7019 ? 1 1.2
ATM7021A[4] ? ARMv7-A Cortex-A9 family[a] 2 Up to 1.3 DDR3/DDR3L (512 MB) PowerVR SGX540 @ 500 MHz[5] Q3 2013[6]
ATM7029[7] ? Cortex-A5[8][9] 4 Up to 1.2 456 MHz DDR2/DDR3, up to 2 GB Vivante GC1000 Plus @ 480 MHz[5] Q4 2012[10]
ATM7029B[6] ? Cortex-A5 1.2 ? PowerVR SGX540 @ 500 MHz[5]
ATM7039c[6] Set-top-box[11] 40 nm Cortex-A9 1.6 Dual-channel (64-bit total) PowerVR SGX544MP @ 450 MHz[5]
ATM7039s[12] Tablet, set-top box 28 nm LP ? PowerVR SGX544MP
ATM7059[12][13] DDR3, DDR3L, LPDDR2, LPDDR3 Q4 2014
S500 Android 28 nm
S900[14] ARMv8-A Cortex-A53 1.8 DDR3, DDR3L, LPDDR2, LPDDR3, up to 4GB PowerVR G6230
V500 Virtual Reality ARMv7-A Cortex-A9 ? DDR3, DDR3L, LPDDR2, LPDDR3 PowerVR SGX544MP
V700 ARMv8-A Cortex-A53 ? ARM Mali-450 MP6
GT7 GTT ?
  1. ^ The term "Cortex-A9 family" used by Actions is similar to the description used by the company for the CPU cores inside the ATM7029, which have been proven to be Cortex-A5 cores. The ARM Cortex-A5 would be more be accurately described as being "Cortex-A7 family", being slower than but otherwise equivalent to the ARM Cortex-A7, rather than being directly related to the higher-performance ARM Cortex-A9.

Adoption

Close-up of the Ainol Hero 10 II PCB showing the Actions Semiconductor ATM7029 SoC ASIC and the ATC2603A Mixed signal ASIC.
Close-up of the Ainol Hero 10 II PCB showing the Actions Semiconductor ATM7029 SoC ASIC and the ATC2603A Mixed signal ASIC.
Close -up of the Cubieboard 6 PCB showing Actions Semiconductor S500 SoC
Close -up of the Cubieboard 6 PCB showing Actions Semiconductor S500 SoC

S1 MP3 players use chipsets designed by Actions.

In 2012, Actions Semiconductor produced the ATM7029 which is a quad-core ARM Cortex-A5-based SoC using Vivante Corporations GC1000 GPU.[15] This SoC has been used in the Ainol NOVO10 Hero II tablet and other low end tablets.[16]

For Q2 2014, Actions was reported to be fourth largest supplier of tablet processors to the Chinese market.[17]

Legal cases

At one point, Actions was sued by SigmaTel with SigmaTel prevailing. The findings were that Actions infringed upon SigmaTel by directly copying the ASICs designed by SigmaTel, once a world leader in the MP3 ASIC market. SigmaTel later was sold to Freescale Semiconductor.[citation needed]

References

  1. ^ YouTube Interview
  2. ^ "Allwinner A13 or ATM7013?". BuyinCoins Forum. 2013-01-27. Archived from the original on 2014-11-03. Retrieved 2014-11-03.
  3. ^ "Actions Semiconductor Launches New ATM701x Product Family". Actions Semiconductor. 2012-04-30. Archived from the original on 2014-11-03. Retrieved 2014-11-03.
  4. ^ "ATM7021A". Actions Semiconductor. Archived from the original on 2014-11-03. Retrieved 2014-11-03.
  5. ^ a b c d "GPU GFLOPS". GPU GFLOPS. 2014-07-29. Archived from the original on 2014-05-09. Retrieved 2014-11-04.
  6. ^ a b c "Actions's Tablet Chipsets Provide Advanced, Efficient Graphics with Imagination's PowerVR GPUs". Actions Semiconductor. 2014-02-25. Archived from the original on 2014-11-03. Retrieved 2014-11-03.
  7. ^ "ATM7029". Actions Semiconductor. Archived from the original on 2016-06-01. Retrieved 2014-11-03.
  8. ^ "ATM7029: an ARM Cortex A9 or A5?". SlateDroid. Retrieved 2014-07-24.
  9. ^ "Thread: In Depth Review of the Ainol NOVO8 Dream Quad Core Tablet". FreakTab. Archived from the original on 2014-08-08. Retrieved 2014-07-24.
  10. ^ "Ainol Electronic Launches New Tablet Product Featuring Actions Semiconductor's Owl Series ATM7029 Chipset". Actions Semiconductor. 2012-12-27. Archived from the original on 2014-11-03. Retrieved 2014-11-03.
  11. ^ "Actions Parades its Latest Innovative Chip Designs at the 2014 China Sourcing Fair". Actions Semiconductor. 2014-10-16. Archived from the original on 2014-11-03. Retrieved 2014-11-03.
  12. ^ a b "Actions Semiconductor Debuts Its First 28nm OWL Series Chipset". Actions Semiconductor. 2014-10-23. Archived from the original on 2016-06-01. Retrieved 2014-11-03.
  13. ^ "Actions Semiconductor Debuts 28nm Quad-Core Processor for Mainstream Android Tablets". PR Newswire. 2014-11-03. Retrieved 2014-11-03.
  14. ^ "Actions Semiconductor Launches High Performance 64-bit S900 and ActDuino S900". Actions Semiconductor. 2015-05-14. Archived from the original on 2015-07-10. Retrieved 2015-07-09.
  15. ^ "MultiCore overview". Archived from the original on 2016-06-01. Retrieved 2013-06-06.
  16. ^ "艾诺NOVO四核参数". Archived from the original on 2013-01-15. Retrieved 2013-06-06.
  17. ^ "Digitimes Research: China sees increased tablet AP shipments in 2Q14". DigiTimes. 2014-07-28. Retrieved 2014-07-28.

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