Allwinner has recently announced that it will be soon joining the 64-bit market but the company has not forgotten its main source of income, which are cheap 7- to 8-inch tablets, as it has announced the new US $4 Allwinner A33 chipset which features a quad-core Cortex A7 CPU part.


Aimed to be used with cheap 7- to 8-inch US $30 to US $60 market range tablets, the Allwinner A33 is described by the company as the world's first US $4 chipset with quad-core processor. Based on a quad-core Cortex A7 CPU and a dual-core Mali-400 MP2 GPU, the Allwinner A33 will not hit any benchmark records but is certainly enough for displays with up to 1280x800 resolution that can play 1080p@60fps video.



According to Allwinner, the new chipset is much more power efficient when compared to other Cortex A7 based quad-core chipset on the market and is capable of providing 300 hours of standby and or six and a half hours of 1080p video playback with a 4,000mAh battery.



The new Allwinner A33 has currently entered mass production and since it is pin-compatible with the Allwinner A23 dual-core chipset, it is just a matter of time before we see some cheap tablets based on this chipset.

Source: Allwinnertech.com.