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Embeddedworld2019 | Rockchip exhibits various SBC and SOM development boards covering multiple application scenarios

2019-02-26

 The annual event embeddedworld2019 was held in Nuremberg from February 26 to 28. Rockchip participated in the event this year again and exhibited various development boards in the forms of SBC and SOM based on a number of Rockchip solutions, which satisfy the market demands of AI, intelligent vision, smart speaker etc.

Rockchip embedded solution series support Android and Linux OS, provide industrial-level temperature range support and support long-term supply. The high performance and comprehensive solutions help customers to introduce new technologies more quickly and enhance the overall solution efficiency.

A number of development boards based on RK3399Pro, RK3399, RK3288 and RK1608 solutions were displayed at the site, including Toybrick series development boards, Lenovo Leez P710 SBC development board, the development kit EAIDK under the cooperation with Arm and Open AI Lab and RK1608 vision modules, which were targeting AI applications; superior-performance single-board computation platforms like ROCKPro64 development board and Asus Thinker board; and the phyCORE®-RK3288 core board targeting the industrial control field. The diverse applications that Rockchip solutions cover have attracted lots of attention from the embedded market in Europe.  

MWC 2019 | Rockchip launched ALL-IN-ONE 3D Development Platform jointly with UNRE

2019-02-25

 The annual Mobile World Congress (MWC) is the world's famous mobile event of the year. It's also the venue where many of the top phone makers, consumer electronics manufacturers and technology rookies will reveal their flagship products and innovations for the year. Rockchip jointly with UNRE, a 3D AI technical company that is committed to the development and application of 3D vision intelligence technology, launched ALL-IN-ONE 3D Development Platform, UNRE 3DSENZ AIO.

Powered by RK3399 and RK1608, ALL-IN-ONE 3D Development Platform supports 3D sensing of TOF (Main Camera) and Structure light (Front Camera), highly integrated the UNRE 3D SENZ Engine to achieve the high accurate face and object 3D scanning, 3D reconstruction, 3D size and spatial measurement. The ALL-IN-ONE Development Platform, UNRE 3DSENZ AIO, is a turnkey total solution for 3D application development.

3D AI vision technology is widely used in robotic navigation, autopilot, UAV, AR/VR/MR, 3D reconstruction, human-computer interaction, intelligent manufacturing and other fields. At present, TOF technology and 3D structured light are the main directions of 3D AI vision technology. 3D structured light focuses on close-range face unlocking, face recognition, which is suitable for face ID payment, 3D beauty and other functions. TOF is perfect for long-distance 3D information acquisition. It collects more 3D information of environment and objects and displays collected information through AR, holographic image to apply it to larger scenes, like 3D fitting, AR decoration, AR games, Motion Sensing Game etc.

In the future, high bandwidth of 5G network will guarantee the information transmission speed for 3D vision technology. There will be an outbreak of applications like 3D video calls, remote VR of virtual scene + virtual scene, remote AR of virtual scene + real scene, remote JR of real scene + real scene, etc. Powered by RK3399Pro + RK1608, ALL-IN-ONE 3D Vision Development Platform will provide efficient and complete development tools for the 3D vision application industry, and jointly create more breakthrough innovative applications in the 5G era. 

 LAS VEGAS, Jan. 8, 2019 --- CES2019, Rockchip, a leading Chinese semiconductor company, today released the RK1808, an AIoT solution with built-in high performance NPU.

In terms of hardware specifications, Rockchip RK1808 AIoT solution features :

l Dual-core Cortex-A35 CPU architecture

l NPU computing performance up to 3.0TOPs

l VPU supporting 1080P video codec, microphone array with hardware VAD function and camera video signal input with built-in ISP

AIoT is an inevitable trend of the IoT development and also an excellent chance for intelligent upgrades of traditional industries. The four dominant features about functional modules and rich interfaces of Rockchip RK1808 will efficiently energize the AIoT eco-chain and meet developers’ needs to integrate technology into real-life applications.

1. Ultimate low power consumption

l Adopting 22nm FD-SOI process

l Power consumption reduced by about 30%, compared with mainstream 28nm process under the same performance

l DDR-free operation of the always-on device with built-in 2MB system-level SRAM

l With hardware VAD function for low-power monitoring and far-field wake-up 

2. Powerful AI computing

l Built-in NPU, computing performance up to 3TOPs

l Supporting INT8/INT16/FP16 hybrid operation to optimize performance, power consumption and operation accuracy

l Supporting network model conversion with strong compatibility: TensorFlow /  MXNet / PyTorch / Caffe

3. Rich AIoT-oriented interfaces for application expansion

l For video, supporting MIPI / CIF/BT1120 video input and MIPI/RGB output

l For audio, supporting microphone array input and audio output

l Sensor input and output interfaces including : PWM/I2C/SPI /UART

l High-speed device interfaces including: USB3.0/USB2.0 /PCIE

l Supporting Gigabit Ethernet and external WiFi/BT modules

4. Easy to develop

l Supporting Linux system

l AI application development SDK: supporting C/C++ and Python

Rockchip RK1808 solution is designed for various AI applications including security, education, automobile, smart wearable devices, home appliances, storage and so on, with a series of functions such as voice wake-up, speech recognition, face detection and attribute analysis, face recognition, posture analysis, target detection and recognition, image processing, etc. RK1808 can not only power technology upgrades and breakthrough for the AIoT eco-chain, but can also help eco-chain partners to explore the AIoT market. 

Rockchip, Arm and OPEN AI LAB Jointly Launch First AI Development Platform

2018-09-18

 SHANGHAI, Sep.14^th, Rockchip, Arm China and OPEN AI LAB jointly released the EAIDK (Embedded AI Development Kit) development platform based on RK3399 solution, for designing and developing embedded AI applications during the AI Developer Global Summit.

RK3399 EAIDK Development Platform has integrated the reference design, chip debugging and testing and chip verification as the hardware development kits. Based on AID (the core software platform of OPEN AI LAB) and the powerful multimedia interface and various peripheral interfaces of Rockchip RK3399, it can provide the developer with high-quality hardware reference design, and allow the developer to complete the hardware development of various AI products by simply changing the reference design modular circuit or without changing the modular circuit.

"As Rockchip has accumulated extensive experience and successful cases in the field of AI chips, we have enabled our industrial chain partners to launch various AI terminal products by integrating RK3399 chip. The launch of RK3399 EAIDK Development Platform has made full use of different resources of Rockchip in order to provide AI Developers and partners with full support for their multi-scenario product and all-platform development and ecological layout, "said Rockchip Global Vice President Chen Feng.

"Rockchip RK3399 EAIDK is the first AI development platform that has applied the Arm architecture and can support SDK development and application software development and operation of RK3399 Chip. As the AI Development Platform features full interface and strong extensibility design, it can be applied to different AI usage scenarios and can support the full-function validation. " said Arm China Vice President Jin Yongbin.

As one of Rockchip high-end products, RK3399 can be applied to various applications including high-end tablets, laptops, intelligent monitors etc., as well as one powerful solution providing 4Kx2K content. In the field of AI, RK3399 has realized the multi-field, multi-industry and multi-scenario commercial application, including Smart Home, AI floor mopping robot, IoT AI smart speaker and OTT etc..

OPEN AI LAB Solution General Manager Xv Haibing ever concluded that RK3399 EAIDK development platform could be applied to different fields: "Rockchip RK3399 EAIDK development platform possesses higher flexibility in the industry-university-research cooperation, can provide corresponding platform support for various AI-related development courses for domestic and global universities and educational institutions, and facilitate the AI industrial chain development.”

For developers, Rockchip RK3399 EAIDK Development Platform is able to facilitate them from three major aspects:

1. Lower the development threshold: Since RK3399 EAIDK has provided all developers with a modular development environment, developers can easily bypass various technical difficulties and focus on the product innovation and the design of different application scenarios.

2. Improve the development efficiency: Rockchip RK3399 has various interface types. Developers can quickly implement the hardware development.

3. Create a much more open environment: RK3399 features an open SDK environment, and developers can make their R&D and matching design in hardware and software much more skillful, and even make their products much more competitive.  

The First Arm AI Developers Global Summit has gathered various top companies of chip, software and hardware, and business leaders covering the upstream and downstream of AI industrial chain. It has attracted about 1000 developers at home and abroad. During this summit, various technical experts in Arm and Arm AI ecosphere and the industry have made an in-depth analysis on the embedded intelligent system for all AI developers.  

Rockchip AI Solutions facilitate Multiform Commercial Applications

2018-08-08

Rockchip is aiming at the booming IoT market, and has launched a series of AI chip products positioned to various fields such as vision, image perception and voice interaction etc. so as to realize the mass production and commercial use in various applications. 

Powerful AI Chip RK3399

The super-performance BIG LITTLE core architecture RK3399 is a featured product of  Rockchip AI chips. In this early July, Rockchip officially released the Android 8.1 Neural Networks API (NNAPI) optimized SDK based on the RK3399 platform to provide the much more universal and powerful AI computing support. As a matter of fact, it can be applied to various applications derived from and developed on the basis of the mainstream model architecture, such as face recognition, ADAS, product identification, fatigue detection etc..

Based on RK3399, Rock960 platform, features powerful performance and diversified expansion interfaces. It takes the lead in supporting Tengine and can be applied in many innovative fields, such as IOT equipment, intelligent interactive devices, personal computers, and robots. 

AI Voice Interaction Solution

The voice interaction solution is an important part of the Rockchip AI chip strategy. At Baidu Create 2018, Baidu announced that they would team up with Rockchip to create a full-chain solution centered on voice interaction by integrating with software and hardware based on RK3308 and RK3326. 

RK3308 and RK3326 are Rockchip's new AI smart voice solutions developed and designed to better meet the market's need for multi-modal voice interactive speaker solutions. Both solutions feature the high-performance and low-power architecture, and they will respectively provide the overall chip solution for audio AI smart speakers and smart display speakers.

As early as 2017 at Google I/O, Rockchip took the lead in releasing the RK3229 Google Voice Assistant solution based on the Andorid system platform to the world. The solution applied a Quad-core Cortex-A7 architecture and in terms of the speech algorithm, it combined Google’s rich experience in the audio field, supporting the sound localization, sound source enhancement, echo cancellation, and the noise suppression etc.. 

RK3229 solution is now applied to various products, including voice speakers, smart sofas, and voice TV boxes. Recently, the Mango TV Milk Box has been released by integrating with the RK3229 solution. It possesses the built-in far-field voice function, and can accurately identify the main sound even in a long distance or a noisy environment. Therefore, AI is now entering people’s home life. 

AI Floor Mopping Robot Solution

Recently, Rockchip has launched four chip-level solutions for AI floor mopping robots, including RK3399, RV1108, RK3326 and RK3308. They all support various functions ranging from AI to VSLAM and laser navigation, covering a wide range of floor mopping robot products (from high-end products to entry-level products). Meanwhile, they have facilitated the definition and upgrade of the standard for the positioning navigation of the 4^th-generation AI floor mopping robots. 

In the ecological environment for floor mopping robots, Rockchip’s algorithm partners and ODM/OEM customers are respectively involved in various industries such as laser, VSLAM, AI and other fields, in which way, the mass production can be realized quickly. 

RK3228 Powers the 4G AI Large-screen Age

RK3228 focuses on a variety of video-based devices with screens, and is designed to present people with a better audio-visual feast. Recently, Iqiyi TV Dongle(Dian Shi Guo) 4G has been released, powered by RK3228A chip. In addition, it supports all 7-mode 16-band networks and supports Bluetooth 4.1 and 2.4GHz/5GHz dual-band WiFi. Meanwhile, 4G/WiFi dual mode is also enabled. By inserting the SIM card and applying the 4G high-quality communication, the 4K ultra-HD video will be transmitted to large-screen devices. In fact, it is the world’s first 4G+AI screen-casting terminal, which will broaden and enhance people’s entertainment scene experience.

High-efficiency Intelligent Vision and Image Perception Solutions

In addition to video, voice and other solutions, Rockchip also attaches great importance to the research and development of visual processing and image recognition products. 

As early as 2016, the “Intelligent Vision Development Platform – RV1108” was officially released, realizing the revolutionized development of the high-efficiency intelligent vision and image perception solutions in various embedded systems. 

The newly released RK1608 vision processing chip demonstrates the powerful 3D vision-related capabilities. For example, the deep color technology can help people free from complex remote controls and buttons that are replaced by natural gestures and body control; besides, the human skeleton tracking technology is also applied to achieve the accurate positioning and tracking of pedestrians by means of the machine learning algorithms and post-tracking detection technology.

Rockchip’s AI chips positioned to different fields have covered almost all current applicationsand product forms of AI, and will also help all terminal partners deploy their AI ecological chains and accelerate the commercialization of AI products.  

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SDK 제공 기능

1) 안면 인식 및 추적: 정지 상태의 영상[사진] 또는 비디오 스트림중 안면 위치 측정 및 핵심 정보 수집

2)안면 인식: 연속 인식 및 신분 검증 등 다양한 시나리오의 요구 사항에대해서 빠르고 정확한 두 가지 유형을 제공하고 있습니다.

AI Computation Performance Improves and Rockchip Officially Launches Android 8.1 NNAPI SDK

2018-07-05

RK3399 features high performance, high scalability and versatility. CPU has applied the big.LITTLE architecture, Dual-core Cortex-A72 and Quad-core Cortex-A53, and its overall performance and power consumption have occupied a leading status technically. Meanwhile, GPU has applied the Quad-core ARM new-generation high-end image processor Mali-T860, and integrated much more bandwidth compression techniques to realize the excellent overall performance. In addition, Android 8.1 is able to completely invoke the neural neural network API (NNAPI) to realize the hardware acceleration, largely improving the AI Operational Performance of RK3399.

RK3399 SDK launched this time is a kind of GPU acceleration solution based on Android 8.1 NNAPI, which can provide corresponding acceleration support for related AI applications developed by means of Android NNAPI, and features the following four major advantages:

1. High Compatibility: Standard API can directly support various APK applications developed based on Android NNAPI;

2. Strong Universality: It can support numerous mainstream model architectures, and is suitable for various derivative and developed applications based on the mainstream model architecture, including face recognition, ADAS, goods identification and fatigue detection etc.;

3. Improved Performance: The real-time performance can be obtained among multiple tasks. For example, the highest frame rate can reach 23.2 when MobileNet is applied for image identification;

4. Lower Power Consumption: It can realize the high-efficient operation based on GPU, and the power consumption is only 1W when fully loaded

According to the APK Testing Data of image identification and target detection, the mainstream model’s performance is outstanding:

AI Computation has achieved an explosive growth, and Rockchip AI solution is widely applied to various industries including the image identification, the intelligent security, the intelligent drive, Automatic Speech Recognition, and the consumer electronics. However, Android 8.1 NNAPI Optimized SDK based on the RK3399 Platform is now officially launched to enhance the hard power of the AI solution Product Line.  

AI+VSLAM visual technology revolution, Rockchip helps in the industrial upgrading of the fourth-generation sweeping robots

Rockchip released the deep learning-based target detection solution, speeding up the commercial process of high-end AI

2018-05-17

On May 16, 2018, Rockchip released the deep learning-based target detection solution powered by RK3399. It can provide Turnkey solutions for high-end AI industry and support both Android and Linux with a target detection speed of more than 8 frames per second.

Target detection is a very popular research orientation in AI field. It involves the positioning and classification of target objects in pictures or videos. It is quite difficult for machines to acquire the abstract concept of objects and position them from RGB pixel matrix, which poses great challenges to the application of AI.

Currently, the major R&D orientations of AI technology includes: face detection, body detection, vehicle detection, QR code detection and gesture detection, which can be widely used in monitoring, intelligent transportation, new retails, natural interactions, etc., while the target detection technology is the basis of these applications. The deep learning-based target detection technology is highly accurate and robust, and yet cannot be actually deployed and applied in embedded devices for a long time due to heavy computation.

Upgraded to Android 8.1! Rockchip High Cost-effective Tablet Solutions Showed during HK Electronics Fair 2018

2018-04-13

Hong Kong Electronics Fair opened today, Rockchip announced that entry-level, medium and high - end tablet solutions fully support Android 8.1. RK3126C, RK3326, RK3368, RK3288 and RK3399 will better meet the diverse needs of the market. 

High cost-effective entry-level solution – RK3126C

RK3126C is the BEST choice of high cost-effective entry-level tablet solution in the market, which adaptable to Android 8.1 and supports Android Go GMS authentication.

• Quad-core Cortex-A7 CPU
• ARM Mali-400 MP2 GPU
• 1080P H.264/VC-1/MPEG/VP8 video decoder
• HD display

Mid-end tablet solution – RK3326

RK3326 is a new 64bit Quad-core mid-end tablet solution, which is extremely cost-effective and suitable for smart show products.

RK3326 adopts ARM 64bit Quad-core Cortex-A35 CPU; GPU is the latest ARM G31. It supports OpenGL ES 3.2, Vulkan 1.0; supports 32bit DDR4/DDR3/LPDDR3/LPDDR2 and so on, the configuration selection is flexible and diverse; abundant bandwidth design, which better supports higher resolution LCD and more complex application scene. It supports 8CH I2S/TDM/8ch PDM (suitable for smart show products).

High-end tablet solution – RK3368/RK3288/RK3399

High-end tablet solutions RK3368/RK3288/RK3399, can be applied to the high-end flagship tablet /2in1 tablet / education, finance, medical, game tablet and so on. Some series of Chromebook, Chrome tablet and other Chrome OS products are powered by RK3288/RK3399. 

RK3368—— Octa-core 64bit solution, Antutu score reaches 50,000

• Octa-core 64-bit Cortex-A53 CPU
• PowerVR G6110 GPU
• 32-bit DDR3/LPDDR3
• 1080P@60fps H265/H264/VP9 videodecoder
• FHD Display 

RK3288—— High performance Quad-core solution, Antutu score reaches 60,000

• Quad-core Cortex-A17 CPU
• ARM Mali-T760 MP4 GPU
• 64-bit Dual channel DDR3/LPDDR3
• 4K@60fps H265/H264/VP9 video decoder
• HDMI 2.0 output up to 4K60Hz
• Support Android/Linux OS

RK3399—— High performance flagship solution, Antutu score reaches 80,000

It adopts Dual-core Cortex-A72 and Quad-core Cortex-A53 Big.Little structure CPU, and Mali-T860 GPU. There are high performance, low consumption, rich interfaces and other characteristics. Significant features including:

• Integrated dual USB3.0 Type-C interface, Type-C Display Port audio and video output
• MIPI/eDP interface, supported 2560x1600 display and dual display
• Built-in PCI-e interface that supported high speed Wi-Fi and memory extension based on PCI-e
• Supported high bandwidth LPDDR4
• Dual ISP processing up to 13MP/S, supporting 3D images
• Compatible with Android, Linux, Chrome OS etc.

A thousand developers join the Rockchip Developer Conference

2018-04-20

The Rockchip Developer Conference 2018 is the third conference held by Rockchip in Fuzhou. The event attracted nearly one thousand developers and audiences from industrial leading companies and a number of renowned companies and partners with global influence attended the event.

A number of industrial leaders and pioneers, including Zhu Kaihua, Duer Business Division CTO, Xie Linfeng, the Chief Architect for IoT operating system of Alibaba Cloud IoT Business Division, Deng Qiuwei, the President of 360 Intelligence Business, Zhao Hengyi, the Vice President of AI Speech, Chen Feng, the Director of Product Management of ArcSoft, Gao Weihan, the CPO of Pisofttech and Song Xiangming, the Co-Founder of ReadSense gave wonderful keynote speeches in AI cutting-edge technology, AI interactive system, IoT, unmanned driving, major industries and major applications.

Rockchip breaks through in seven major areas

Rockchip demonstrated many cases of its cooperation with industrial giants at the conference. A number of chips of high performance and high cost performance have been successfully applied in nearly 100 industries, including the flagship chip RK3399, RK3288, RK3368 and RV1108.

In the application of high-end AI chips, the Cheetah AI Speaker powered by Rockchip intelligent audio solution newly released in March 2018 was demonstrated onsite. In addition to rich content, the AI speaker contains abundant built-in hot news on the Internet, music, reading and FM applications. It is greatly intelligent in man-machine interactions and able to quickly respond to questions such as “How’s the weather ?”, “Xiaobao, play a joyful song”, “Xiaobao, play a piece of news for today”, etc., which can satisfy user’s all-round needs for basic necessities of life.

Another demonstrated AI solution application was the SenseTime face recognition machine, which adopts the Rockchip image recognition technology and quickly recognizes faces for comparison with the ID card placed in the recognition area. The product may be gradually put into commercial use in the transportation sector nationwide.

In the application of mainstream and flagship-level chips, the cases of applications by the international giants Google and Sony were showed on site as well. Google has used Rockchip solutions for three successive generations on its electronic products for education, including the Chrome tablets and Chromebook notebooks. As Google Chrome OS is an online cloud system, teachers and students are able to retrieve all the personal data and information under their account by logging into their account on any terminal. Thus, it has strong application value and convenience in the education field.

Other exhibited items on site include the Sony reference design board ToF, which can be used in AR, VR and other fields that require automatic operation, such as robots and drones. Rockchip technology has been widely used in the base of the image technology.

Powered by Rockchip OP1-RK3399, Google released world’s first Chrome OS Chromebook Tab 10

2018-03-28

As defined by Google, the Chromebook Tab 10 is a lightweight version of Chrombook, designed for schools for convenient management and sharing. It is the first tablet that can operate Chrome OS, supports the superfine magnetic portable pen Wacom EMR stylus and is expected to support the Google Expeditions AR function. It can simultaneously support Chrome App and Android App. The product shape of Chrome OS+ tablet enables the interactive modes of touch and voice control to be more advantaged compared with keyboard.

In the design of hardware, the CPU adopts Rockchip OP1-RK3399, with a memory and storage space of 4GB+32GB, a 9.7-inch screen, a resolution of 2048x1536, a weight of only around 1.2 pounds, supporting Google Play and the USB-C extended function. It has an built- in HD 2MP front camera, double speakers, one microphone and a 5MP rear camera. The battery lasts up to 9 hours. The Wacom touch pen allows users to make use of the latest machine learning technology, bringing more natural handwriting experience.

Rockchip OP1-RK3399 was also used in the Chromebook plus jointly released by Google and Samsung at the CES in January 2017.
 

RK3399 CPU adopts Big.Little core structure, Dual Cortex-A72 big core + Quad Cortex-A53 little core structure. With Mali-T860 MP4 as the GPU, the general performance of the GPU improves by 45% compared to that of the previous generation. Additionally, the extensibility and multimedia performance of RK3399 are extremely strong, supporting DDR3\LPDDR3\LPDDR4 memory, H.264/H.265/VP9 4K10bit@60fps video decoding capability, HMDMI2.0, USB3.0, Type-C and even PCI-e port.

In recent years, Google has been making strong pushes towards the education market with steady increase in the market share. Chrome OS has gained a big success in the school market, with nearly all the computer manufacturers promoting the Chrome OS computers. By the third quarter of 2017, Chromebook had occupied 60% of the K-12 education market in the U.S.

The RK3399 OP1 Acer Chromebook Tab 10 will continue to assist in the upgrade and popularization of handwriting cloud tablet devices in the global education field.

Pulierde Linux Smart Cast A3 Officially Launched! Powered by Rockchip RK3036

2018-03-26

Pulierde has launched the Smart Cast A3. Being small, handy and easy to operate, the product is highly popular after the mass production and release into the market. The Pulierde A3 Smart Cast satisfies user’s demands for watching resources shared on big screens to a great extent. Thanks to the H.265 technology, users can play the H.265 encoded FHD videos online. Compared with the 720P image quality previously, it is a considerable enhancement in user’s visual experience.

Pulierde A3 adopts Rockchip RK3036 solution, which supports H.265 local hardware decoding, Android/IOS/Windows/MAC all-platform system, HDMI output and the transport Miracast/DLNA/Airplay Mirroring.

Three highlights of the RK3036 platform:

1. Save system space, eliminate redundancy and support the handy Linux OS

Compared with the traditional Android Miracast Dongle devices, RK3036 solution adopts Linux OS, avoiding the problems of stability and bad experience caused by mass redundant junk files in Android.

2. Save the cost of memory, demand for memory decreases by 10 times

The adoption of Linux OS RK3036 solution may reduce the cost of terminal products by 2/3. Compared to the reliance of the Android System on hardware, RK3036 supports hardware with a minimum memory of only 64M DDR+8MB FLASH, a decrease of nearly 10 times that of the demand of the Android System for memory. Thus, it has substantially optimized the cost of peripheral electronic components.

3. Support H.265 local decoding and Miracast experience of super low power consumption on mobile phones

It supports H.265 local hardware decoding for mirroring so that the mobile phone does not have to perform algorithm, thus substantially reducing the power consumption of the mobile phone. Compared to H.264, H.265 encoded videos save 50% of the bandwidth with the same image quality and the error rate is lower with the mosaic decreasing up to 59%. RK3036 is the only chip solution that supports H.265 among the entry-level dongle.

Phicomm released the first AI speaker R1 and created a top-quality sound experience together with Harman. It is the first time for Phicomm to step into the artificial intelligence filed.

The Phicomm R1 is powered by Rockchip RK3229, with quad-core Cortex-A7 CPU. It supports sound source localization, sound source enhancement, echo cancellation, and noise suppression technology. It is the first solution to support 8-channel digital silicon direct connection in the industry. It has 8GB storage space, which can store a large number of songs or nearly tens of thousands of minutes of recording, and supports 2.4G and 5G Wi-Fi frequency band.

The Phicomm R1 can recognize sound accurately, and the awakening rate is excellent under many scenarios. No matter in a noisy home, watching TV, or family members chatting loudly, the awakening rate of R1 exceeds 85%.

In the smart home ecology, Phicomm R1 will play the role of manipulation center. Based on the company’s internal smart product line, R1 can control intelligent platoon insert, query personal health information, and control smart home products such as air purifiers by voice.

The Phicomm AI Speaker R1 will gradually access more abundant functions and content and will realize more personalized services by AI technology, making life easier and more convenient. It will be open for sale on March 28, at RMB 2,499.

- More Rockchip AI solutions –

From February 27 to March 1, the 2018 embedded world exhibition & conference was held in Nuremberg, Germany. It is one of the world's most influential exhibitions and the world's largest embedded system exhibition.

In this exhibition, Rockchip showed its ultra-wide platform applications including embedded AI, industrial control, smart audio, smart vision and other development platforms.