Rockchip
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Rockchip is a series of integrated circuits manufactured by Fuzhou Rockchip Electronics Company. These integrated circuits are mainly for applications in mobile entertainment devices such as MP3 players and personal video players.

Rockchip 27xx series

Rockchip was first known for their RK 27xx series that was very efficient at mp3/mp4 decoding and was integrated in lots of low-cost mp3/mp4 products.

Rockchip 2808

This device is a licensed ARM926EJ-S derivative. Along with the ARM
ARM architecture
ARM is a 32-bit reduced instruction set computer instruction set architecture developed by ARM Holdings. It was named the Advanced RISC Machine, and before that, the Acorn RISC Machine. The ARM architecture is the most widely used 32-bit ISA in numbers produced...

 core a DSP
Digital signal processor
A digital signal processor is a specialized microprocessor with an architecture optimized for the fast operational needs of digital signal processing.-Typical characteristics:...

 coprocessor is included . The native clock speed is 560 MHz. ARM rates the performance of the ARM926EJ-S at 1.1 DMIPS/MHz the performance of the Rockchip 2808 when executing ARM instructions is therefore 660DMIPS roughly 26% the speed of Apple's A4 processor.

The DSP coprocessor can support the real-time decoding of 720p video files at bitrates
Bitrate
In telecommunications and computing, bit rate is the number of bits that are conveyed or processed per unit of time....

 of up to 2.5Mbit/s.

This chip is the core of many Android and Windows Mobile
Windows Mobile
Windows Mobile is a mobile operating system developed by Microsoft that was used in smartphones and Pocket PCs, but by 2011 was rarely supplied on new phones. The last version is "Windows Mobile 6.5.5"; it is superseded by Windows Phone, which does not run Windows Mobile software.Windows Mobile is...

 mobile internet devices.

Rockchip 2818

The Rockchip 2818 goes up to 640 MHz frequency. The DSP can be free to manage audio and video codecs. It can decode 720p videos.

Rockchip 29xx series

The Rockchip 29xx, presented for the first time at CES 2011, is a Cortex A8 CPU and can run up to 1.2 Ghz.

RK29xx is the first chip to decode Google WebM
WebM
WebM is an audio-video format designed to provide a royalty-free, open video compression format for use with HTML5 video. The project's development is sponsored by Google....

 VP8 in hardware. It encodes and decodes H264 at 1080p, and most of the standard video formats (MKV, Xvid, H263, AVS, MPEG4, RV, WMV). The GPU is able to render OpenGL
OpenGL
OpenGL is a standard specification defining a cross-language, cross-platform API for writing applications that produce 2D and 3D computer graphics. The interface consists of over 250 different function calls which can be used to draw complex three-dimensional scenes from simple primitives. OpenGL...

 ES 2.0 and OpenVG
OpenVG
OpenVG is a standard API designed for hardware-accelerated 2D vector graphics. It is aimed primarily at mobile phones, media and gaming consoles such as the PlayStation 3, and other consumer electronic devices. It will help manufacturers create flashier user interfaces that are less dependent on...

 at a rate of 60 million polygons per second, six times the power of the iPad GPU. It is compatible with Android 2.3.

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