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November 13, 2025November 13, 2025 by Jean-Luc Aufranc (CNXSoft) - 7 Comments

4-inch UGOOS AC1 smart clock features Amlogic A213Y SoC for smart displays and digital signage

UGOOS is better known for its TV boxes, but the company recently introduced a different product with the AC1 smart clock based on an Amlogic A213Y SoC for smart displays and digital signage applications I had never heard of. Let’s have a look at both. UGOOS AC1 smart clock The AC1 smart clock features a 480×480 resolution display, supports Bluetooth pairing, alarms with different ringtones, displays weather, date, time, and sensor data, and supports features such as photo frame, event notes, and music playback. UGOOS AC1 specifications: SoC – Amlogic A213Y (more details below) System Memory – 256MB DDR4 Storage – 8 GB eMMC flash Display – 4-inch IPS touchscreen display with 480×480 resolution; 2.5D glass cover Audio 3W sound speaker Built-in microphone for voice search Wireless – IEEE 802.11b/g/n WiFi 4 and Bluetooth 4.2 Sensors – Temperature and humidity sensor, light sensor Misc – Touch Key, mute switch, and […]

September 29, 2025November 6, 2025 by Jean-Luc Aufranc (CNXSoft) - 2 Comments

Linux 6.17 release – Main changes, Arm, RISC-V, and MIPS architectures

Linux 6.17 has just been released on LKML: No huge surprises this past week, so here we are, with kernel 6.17 pushed out and ready to go. Below is the shortlog for just the last week – not the full 6.17 release – as usual. It’s not exciting, which is all good. I think the biggest patch in there is some locking fixes for some bluetooth races that could cause use-after-free situations. Whee – that’s about as exciting as it gets. Other than that, there’ the usual driver fixlets (GPU and networking dominate as usual, but “dominate” is still pretty small), there’s some minor random other driver updates, some filesystem noise, and core kernel and mm. And some selftest updates. This obviously means that the merge window for 6.18 will open tomorrow, and I already have four dozen pull requests pending. Thanks to the proactive people – you know who […]

August 28, 2025August 29, 2025 by Jean-Luc Aufranc (CNXSoft) - 10 Comments

Ugoos AM9 Android 14 TV box features Amlogic S905X5 Armv9 SoC, supports H.266 and AV1 codecs

Ugoos AM9 is an Android 14 TV box powered by an Amlogic S905X5 quad-core (Armv9) Cortex-A510 SoC, which supports features such as H.266 and AV1 hardware video decoding and AI Super Resolution (AI-SR) through the built-in 4 TOPS NPU. We first noted the Amlogic S905X5 SoC in an upcoming SEI Robotics TV box about two years ago. Details were sparse at the time, and in the meantime, Amlogic introduced the similarly named S905X5M, which is still a “regular” Armv8 SoC with four Cortex-A55 cores, and found in products such as ODROID-C5 SBC and Ugoos X5M Pro. However, I had not heard anything about the more powerful S905X5 SoC until I came across the Ugoos AM9 TV box this morning. Ugoos AM9 specifications: SoC – Amlogic S905X5 CPU – Quad-core Cortex-A510 Armv9 processor delivering 40K+ DMIPS GPU – Arm Mali-G310 V5 GPU clocked at 1 GHz for 4K HDR user interfaces […]

July 21, 2025July 24, 2025 by Jean-Luc Aufranc (CNXSoft) - 19 Comments

Ugoos X5M Pro Android 14 TV Box is powered by a 2.5 GHz Amlogic S905X5M SoC

Ugoos X5M Pro TV Box BLuetooth Remote Control

Ugoos X5M Pro is an Android 14 TV box powered by the new Amlogic S905X5M quad-core Cortex-A55 SoC, so far found in some operator TV boxes, Xiaomi TV Box S (3rd Gen), and Hardkernel ODROID-C5 SBC. The new TV box comes with 4GB RAM, 32GB eMMC flash, HDMI 2.1 video output up to 4Kp60, Gigabit Ethernet and WiFi 6 networking, optical S/PDIF audio output, a USB 3.0 port, and a USB 2.0 OTG port. A Bluetooth remote control with voice control and IR learning function is also provided. Ugoos X5M Pro specifications: SoC – Amlogic S905X5M CPU – Quad-core Cortex-A55 processor @ 2.5 GHz GPU – Arm G310-V2 GPU @ 850 MHz supporting OpenGL ES 3.2, Vulkan 1.0, and OpenCL 2.0 VPU Video Decoding 4Kp60 10-bit: AV1, H.265, VP9, AVS2 4Kp30: H.264 1080p60: MPEG-4, VC1, AVS, MPEG-2, MPEG-1, MJPEG Video Encoding – 1080p30 H.264 NPU – Inline AI-SR (AISR2) for […]

May 9, 2025 by Jean-Luc Aufranc (CNXSoft) - 8 Comments

UGOOS SK2 – A 4K Google TV box powered by Realtek RTD1325 SoC with 4GB RAM, WiFi 6, Dolby Vision & Atmos

UGOOS SK2 is a 4K Google TV (Android TV 12) box powered by a Realtek RTD1325 quad-core Cortex-A55 SoC with 4GB LPDDR4 RAM, 32GB eMMC flash, 100 Mbps Ethernet, and WiFi 6 connectivity. The TV box features an HDMI 2.1a port that outputs up to 4Kp60 with HDR, an optical S/PDIF audio output, and two USB ports. As a certified device, it ships with a Widevine L1 license for video streaming, as well as Dolby Vision and Atmos audio support. UGOOS SK2 specifications: SoC – Realtek RTD1325 CPU – Quad-core Arm Cortex-A55 @ 1.7GHz with 512KB L3 cache; 20,000 DMIPS GPU – Arm Mali-G57 MC1 with OpenGL ES 3.2 and Vulkan 1.3 API support VPU – 4Kp60 10-bit AV1, VP9, H.265, AVS2 video decoder System Memory – 4GB LPDDR4 Storage – 32GB eMMC flash Video & Audio Output HDMI 2.1a up to 4K resolution (3840 x 2160) with 4K HDR […]

July 12, 2024August 29, 2024 by Jean-Luc Aufranc (CNXSoft) - 11 Comments

Ugoos SK1 8K Android TV box with Dolby Vision comes with Amlogic S928X-K SoC, 8GB LPDDR4, 128GB eMMC flash

Ugoos SK1 8K TV Box Dolby Vision Atmos DTS HD

Ugoos SK1 8K Android TV box is based on the Amlogic S928X-K penta-core Cortex-A76/A55 SoC with 8GB LPDDR4, a 128GB eMMC flash, and support for Dolby Vision HDR. The SK1 model follows the Ugoos AM8 model introduced last year with the Amlogic S928X-J processor, 4GB LPDDR4, and 32GB eMMC flash. The new model provides additional licenses with the S928X-K SoC and more resources that should be suitable for more than just watching 8K videos, and some games and other apps could easily run on the device. Ugoos SK1 specifications: SoC – Amlogic S928X-K CPU – Penta-core processor with 1x Cortex-A76 core @ up to 2.0 GHz, 4x Cortex-A55 cores GPU – Arm Mali-G57 MC2 GPU with support for OpenGL ES 3.2, Vulkan 1.2, and OpenCL 2.0 VPU 8Kp60 H.265, AV1, VP9, AVS3/AVS2 10-bit video decoder; 4Kp60 H.264 decoder, 1080p60 MPEG-4, WMV/VC-1, AVS, MPEG-2, MPEG-1 decoder Low-latency 4Kp60 H.265/H.264 encoder AI […]

August 30, 2023July 13, 2024 by Jean-Luc Aufranc (CNXSoft) - 8 Comments

Ugoos AM8 – A true 8K TV box powered by Amlogic S928X-J processor

Ugoos AM8 is a true 8K TV box based on Amlogic S928X-J penta-core Cortex-A76/A55 processor with Dolby Vision and Dolby Audio support that is now available for sale on Aliexpress. If you search for an 8K TV box on the web, you’ll find plenty of listings for 4K TV boxes incapable of 8K video output, but Ugoos AM8 is what I would call “a true 8K TV box” capable of both video playback and output up to 8Kp60 thanks to the Amlogic S928X processor which we previously found announced in IPTV/OTT devices for operators from SDMC and SEI Robotics, as well as more recently in an 8K TV box board. Ugoos AM8 (preliminary) specifications: SoC – Amlogic S928X-J CPU – Penta-core processor with 1x Cortex-A76 core, 4x Cortex-A55 cores GPU – Arm Mali-G57 MC2 GPU with support for OpenGL ES 3.2, Vulkan 1.2, and OpenCL 2.0 VPU 8Kp60 H.265, AV1, […]

December 27, 2021February 22, 2023 by Jean-Luc Aufranc (CNXSoft) - 9 Comments

UGOOS UT8 PRO – An RK3568 TV box with 8GB RAM, 64GB storage

UGOOS UT8 PRO is the first TV box I’ve seen with a Rockchip RK3568 processor, if we exclude Firefly Station P2 that’s more like an Arm Linux mini PC. The device runs Android 11 and is equipped with 8GB RAM, 64GB eMMC flash, and offers WiFi 6 connectivity. There’s also the “UGOOS UT8” with basically the same features except it ships with 4GB RAM and 32GB flash, and a dual-band WiFi 5 and Bluetooth module. We previously had seen TV boxes and mini PCs with the similar Rockchip RK3566 SoC in T95 Plus, H96 Max, and Zidoo M6, and the only reason for going with RK3568 in UGOOS UT8 (PRO) should be the extra USB 3.0 host/OTG interface, adding to the USB 3.0 host interface found in both RK3566 and RK3568 processors. UGOOS UT8 (PRO) specifications: SoC – Rockchip RK3568 with a quad-core Cortex-A55 processor @ up to 1.8/2.0GHz, Arm […]