Final week, TSMC confirmed that it stopped accepting new chip orders from Huawei from Might 15 after the brand new US authorities rules. However nonetheless, the Chinese language telecom big’s silicon division HiSilicon formally unveiled a brand new 28m ATV (Superior Tv) chip with assist for in-house LiteOS on July 24.

Huawei is thought for its HiSilicon chipsets, which energy nearly all of the {hardware} the corporate makes like community gear and smartphones to call a couple of.  Additionally, a lot of the agency’s chips are manufactured by TSMC, the world’s largest semiconductor manufacturing firm.

Sadly, the US lower off Huawei’s enterprise with TSMC with new guidelines in Might. Thus, the corporate is now left and not using a high-end chipmaker. It does have a home companion by the title of SMIC, which at present mass produces the 14nm Kirin 710F chipset.

We expect the identical firm might be manufacturing the brand-new HiSilicon 28nm ATV chip. Identical to its producer, the small print about this chipset is bleak as properly.

In line with ITHome, this new silicon from Huawei is focused at non-smart TVs with 1080p (FHD) or decrease decision shows. It’s mentioned to be 20% highly effective than different typical chips which can be principally based mostly on 40nm structure.

Additional, this HiSilicon chip additionally contains an built-in TCON (Timing Management) module to additional cut back the general price of the TV. Moreover, it additionally helps the corporate’s real-time working system known as LiteOS.

For these unaware, this OS based mostly on ultra-small kernel (< 10KB) requires low reminiscence to function and subsequently, it’s vitality environment friendly. It boots up sooner inside sure milliseconds in addition to helps multi-process synchronization, dynamic loading, entry to totally different cloud platforms, and extra. It’s usually discovered on Huawei wearables and IoT merchandise.

Additionally, this Huawei ATV chip helps numerous enter ports corresponding to analog, HDMI, VGA, CVBS, USB, and others. Final however not least, it additionally contains assist for the corporate’s SWS (Tremendous Huge Sound) sound results to supply higher audio expertise.

Having mentioned that, the supply of this new 28nm HiSilicon ATV chip isn’t identified. Principally, it will likely be restricted to the Chinese language market given the present state of affairs.

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