Hewlett-Packard this year began selling the HP 8, a $170 tablet that runs on an Allwinner quad-core processor. The surge in cheaper devices hasn’t gone unnoticed by more established computer makers. “We are so close to the market that we’re able to come out with new solutions faster than our competitors. “Shenzhen is really the electronics hub for the world,” El-Baz said in a phone interview. Local chipmakers benefit from their proximity to the device manufacturers because it bolsters their ability to anticipate and react to new features that are in demand, said Ben El-Baz, head of U.S. Your interest will be more satisfied with quite a number of additional posts in January 2014, October 2013, September 2013, June 2013, April 2013, March 2013, January 2013 and December 2012.Īllwinner’s success is explained now in the Bloomberg (Businessweek) articles by the following quote: Please read them as you will learn much more about the Allwinner case than from the whole Bloomberg (Businessweek) articles.
For very well founded reasons which were explained in quite a detail in that post. Note that for me there is nothing new about those titles as I introduced a whole new blog to the “Allwinner phenomenon” as evidenced with a specially designed banner on the right here:Īnd the first post of mine, “ Hello world! Here is the Allwinner SoC and the ecosystem built around it”, was created 16 months ago, on November 26, 2012.