Charbax interviewed InfoTMIC marketing director at CES 2013, where they discussed the new processor, and showcased a 7″ Android 4.1 tablet powered by iMAPx15 that is said to cost just $35. The device is not sold on Chinese websites yet, so I could not confirm this claim. At first, I thought it would be unlikely to be the retail price, but there are some 7″ Android tablets selling for about $40 on Aliexpress (Update: The sellers at this price don’t have feedback, so those could be scams). So the $35 price tag could either be the unit price for 1K orders or the retail price in China.
iMAPx15 is not listed on the company website, but I could still gather the specs from the video:
- Processor – 2 Cortex A5 cores up to 1.2 GHz
- GPU – Mali 400 GPU up to 400 MHz
- Video
- FULL-HD (1080p) video decoder (multiple codecs)
- FULL-HD (1080p) encoder (H.264)
- JPEG Decoder & Encoder
- Video Out – HDMI 1.4A, RGB / I80 / TV_IF
- CAMERA I/F
- Memory Controller – DDR/DDR2/DDR3 & LPDDR
- USB – 2x USB2.0 host & 1x USB OTG
- Process – TSMC 40LP
- Package – TFBGA 14x14mm 0.65mm pitch
InfoTMIC also plans to release a Quad Core Cortex a9 later this year.
Jean-Luc started CNX Software in 2010 as a part-time endeavor, before quitting his job as a software engineering manager, and starting to write daily news, and reviews full time later in 2011.
Most or all of the shops selling tablets for $40 retail on Aliexpress are a scam.
As usual, the price cited to Charbax is likely to be in 10k or more quantities. And I guess the tablets sold retail for $50-55 already cost $35 or a bit more wholesale.
If they can sell tablet at that price point, I am sure we are going to get descent android stick with dual core jelly bean around $20 !! 🙂 🙂
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How do the scams work, if they’re paid via Aliexpress escrow?
(If they are scams, Aliexpress will have a lot of sorting out to do – two of their bestselling items this week are <$40 A13 tablets from a sellers with 300 units in total…)
good~~~~