On the market TV Boxes with Amlogic S912 and HiSilicon Hi3798C V200 are available for a long time. Recently appeared new TV Boxes with RK3399 and RK3328 from Rockchip. It’s not hard to notice in this respectable group missing one of the well-known chip maker called Allwinner. Soon it will probably appear on the market new TV Boxes equipped with the new Allwinner H6.

Allwinner H6 is a new quad core Cortex A53 processor dedicated for 4K set-top boxes. It supports [email protected] ultra-HD video decoding and low-latency H.264 4K encoding and support 6K video. There is also supports for HDR10 and HLG HDR，integrated Smartcolor 3.0 display system which is developed independently by Allwinner Technology. Dolby and DTS audio processing can also be done on this processor. The H6 will set the industry benchmark in terms of streaming compatibility, video smoothness and picture quality. It will also be compatible with various kinds of peripheral devices, and provides customers with flexible and mature solution.

Below Allwinner H6 Key Features:

• CPU –  Quad-core ARM Cortex A53 with NEON, hardware Java acceleration, and FPU
• 3D GPU – Dual shader ARM Mali-T720 with support for OpenGL ES3.1/3.0/2.0/1.1, OpenCL 1.1/RenderScript, Microsoft DirectX 11 FL9_3
• Memory I/F – DDR4/DDR3/DDR3L interface
• Storage I/F – 1x eMMC 5.0 flash interface, 1x NAND Flash interface for SLC/MLC/TLC flash memory with up to 80-bit error-correcting code (ECC), 1x SPI NOR Flash interface, 1x SD Card 2.0
• Multimedia via Allwinner Phoenix 3.0 VE Engine
  • Video Decoder
    • H265/HEVC Main/Main10 [email protected] High-tier ;[email protected], up to [email protected]
    • H264/AVC BP/MP/[email protected], MVC, [email protected]
    • VP9,Profile 0/2, [email protected]
    • VP6/VP8, [email protected]
    • MPEG1/MPEG2 [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]
    • MPEG4 [email protected] 0~3, [email protected] 0~5, GMC, short header format, [email protected]
    • AVS+/AVS JIZHUN [email protected] 6.0, [email protected]
    • VC-1 [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] 0~3, [email protected]
    • Supports Frame Buffer Compression(FBC)
    • Output pixel format configurable,YUV420/YV12/NV12
  • JPEG hardware decoder up to 65536 x 65536 resolution
  • Video and Image Encoder
    • H264 BP/MP/[email protected] 4.2 video encoding,up to [email protected]
    • MJPEG video encoding,up to [email protected]
    • JPEG image encoding- maximum resolution up to 8Kx8K
    • Supports [email protected]/[email protected]/[email protected] simultaneous encoding
• Audio Encoding/Decoding
  • MPEG-1,MPEG-2(L1/L2/L3), MP3, AAC-LC, HE AAC V1/V2, APE, FLAC, OGG, AMR-NB, AMR-WB,G.711(u/a) decoding
    • G.711(u/a), AMR-NB, AMR-WB, AAC-LC encoding
    • Karaoke sound effects, supports automatic gain control, voice enhancement and echo/reverberation.
    • 3~5m far field sound acquisition, supports speech enhancement, acoustic echo cancellation and direction of speaker estimation.
    • Dolby Digital/Dolby Digital Plus decoding (option)
    • Dolby DMA2.0 audio effect (option)
    • DTS-HD decoding(option)
    • Dolby Digital/DTS transparent transmission
• TS Demultiplexing/PVR
  • 4x TS inputs supporting 32 PID each
  • DVB-CSA/AES/DES descrambling
  • PVR,recording of scrambled and non-scrambled streams
• Security/ DRM
  • Full Disk Encryption(FDE) with support for AES-ECB/CBC
  • 4K bits Efuse (OTP)
  • Protection for JTAG and other debugging port
  • HDCP 2.2/1.4 protection for HDMI outputs
  • Trusted execution environment(TEE)
  • Digital rights management(DRM)
  • Mainstream advanced CA
  • Secure boot, Secure Storage, Secure upgrade
• Display Processing ((Smartcolor 3.0 DE Engine)
  • HDR10 and HLG HDR processing
  • HDR conversion between SDR
  • Dual independent display support
  • 16 layers, video and UI input layers to overlay
  • 3D video processing and display
• Audio/Video Interfaces
  • Video Output
    • 1x HDMI 2.0a TX with HDCP 2.2 output
    • 1x CVBS interface , supports PAL/NTSC mode
    • 1x RGB interface up to1920x1080
  • Video Input – CSI camera (DVP)
  • Audio Interfaces
    • Analog audio input/output
    • Digital MIC interface
    • 2x I2S supporting 7.1 channel
    • S/PDIF audio interface
• Other Interfaces
  • USB – 1x USB 3.0 host port, 1x USB2.0 OTG port, 1x USB 2.0 host port
  • 1x PCIe 2.0 interface
  • 1x SDIO 3.0
  • Ethernet – 1x 10/100 Mbps Ethernet with PHY, 1x Gigabit Ethernet MAC
  • 5x UART, 5x TWI/I2C, GPIOsSet featured image
  • 2x ISO7816 Smart Card interfaces
  • IR receiver and keypad control interface
• Misc
  • USB, SD card and flash boot supported
  • Adaptive voltage scaling (AVS)
  • Dynamic voltage and frequency scaling (DVFS)
• Package – 15 x 15 mm BGA451 package

H6 brief here. There is currently no exact information on the manufacturer’s website.

Source: CNXSoft