NXP Unveils i.MX 8 Multisensory Enablement Kit with Hexa Core ARMv8 Processor

Freescale, now NXP, i.MX 8 processors have been a long time coming, but finally the company has now unveiled a Multisensory Enablement Kit based on i.MX 8 hexa core ARMv8 processor combined with a Vulkan-ready & OpenCL capable GPU.

i.MX8_Multisensory_Enablement_KitKey features of the development kit:

  • Multisensory Processor Board
  • Multisensory Expansion Board
  • Isolation and separation of secure, safe and open domains
  • Rich compute (6x ARMv8 64-bit main CPUs, OpenCL GPU)
  • Vulkan-ready GPU with HW tessellation and geometry shading
  • Efficient, multi-screen (4x) support via HW virtualization
  • Failover-ready display path
  • Up to 8x camera input for 360 degree vision
  • Integrated vision processing
  • HDR enhanced video
  • Multi-sensor fusion and expansion
  • Multi-core audio and speech processing
  • NXP radio solution integration

However, at the time of writing, there’s very little information about i.MX8 processors themselves, but I’m confident much more info should soon surface as NXP FTF 2016 is taking place now until May 19, 2016. The press release about i.MX8 MEK does mention 4K video and graphics, and some security features. The company expects the processor to be used for for intuitive gesture control, voice recognition, natural speech recognition and audio acceleration, as well as healthcare and industrial applications such as connected vehicles.

NXP i.MX 8 MEK is said to be available now, together with the BSPs and middleware. More details should eventually be posted on i.MX8 MEK page.

[Update: I found a slide about i.MX8 with some details. Source: NXP Forums.

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Jean Dassi Fongang
7 years ago

That is good news. How about they license the i.MX 8 manufacturers in Shenzen to scale it and get it price competitive? Lot’s of design houses license their IP and still make money.

eas
eas
7 years ago

@Jean Dassi Fongang
NXP seems to be more interested in actually supporting their i.MX chips and publishing documentation…

xxiao
xxiao
7 years ago

maybe too pricey for most applications, imx6 itself it expensive already.
meanwhile, imx8 will likely have a range of options for the new family, similar to imx6l to imx6q

cortex-a72
cortex-a72
7 years ago

that depicted at the photo thing looks as hell. xD Ok, seriously it’s all cool, finally they move forward and getting themselves to do something else than cortex-a9, but how much it will cost? freescale was used to overpricing their products. and will NXP be making ppc? (i don’t follow the “news”)

DX
DX
7 years ago

A72 on 28nm is basically insane.

blu
blu
7 years ago

A72 does fine (as in better than A57) on 28nm, as long as you’re ok with the clock penalty.

http://www.gsmarena.com/snapdragon_652_benchmarked_cortexa72_is_fast_even_on_28nm-blog-16681.php

Yay for Freescale getting on the A72 bandwagon – Freescale have the best documentation in the business.

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