The Rockchp RK2918 is a budget ARM SoC for Android based tablets and smartphones. It offers a integrated single-core ARM Cortex-A8 processor with 1 - 1.2 GHz clock rate and NEON SIMD support. The integrated graphics card is a Vivante GC800 with Open GL ES 2.0 and Open VG 1.1 support.
A dedicated VPU (video processing unit) is able to decode 1080p videos in the formats H.264, Xvid, H.263, AVS, MPEG4, RV, and WMV. Futhermore the RK2918 was the first SoC with hardware supported decoding of Google WebM VP8.
The integrated memory controller supports DDR, DDR2 and DDR3.
The RK2918 supports SD/MMC, HDMI 1.2 and USB 2.0 ports.
| Codename | Cortex-A8 |
| Clock Rate | 1000 MHz |
| Number of Cores / Threads | 1 / 1 |
| Manufacturing Technology | 55 nm |
| Features | Vivante GC800, DDR1-3 memory controller, NEON SIMD, Hardware Video En- and Decoder |
| GPU | Vivante GC800 |
| Architecture | ARM |
| Announcement Date | 01/01/2011 |
| Product Link (external) | www.showstoppers.com |
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