Actions Semiconductor

Actions Semiconductor Co. Ltd. (Chinese: 炬力集成; pinyin: Jùlì Jíchéng) is a Chinese fabless semiconductor company founded in 2000 and headquartered in Zhuhai, Guangdong province[1] and has offices in both Shanghai and Shenzhen.[2] The company has about 600 employees and designs SoCs for tablets, digital audio players, photo viewers and related products.
== History[edit] ==
In 2008 Actions Semiconductor acquired Hi-Trend Technology Co. Ltd's 2D graphics technology.[3] The company acquired Mavrix technology in 2010. In November 2011, Niccolo Chen stepped down as CEO, and was replaced by Zhenyu Zhou who was Senior Vice President at the time, and was the founder of Mavrix in 2005.[4] On 12 September 2016, Actions Semiconductor announced their merger with Starman Limited,[5][6] which was completed on 9 December 2016.[7]
== Products[edit] ==
The following is a list of system-on-chips developed and marketed by Actions Semiconductor, mainly targeting tablets.
Model Number 	Application 	Process 	CPU 	CPU 	CPU 	CPU 	Memory interface 	GPU 	Availability
Model Number 	Application 	Process 	ISA 	Processor 	# of Cores	Frq (GHz)	Memory interface 	GPU 	Availability
ATM7013[8] 	Tablet 	? 	MIPS 	74Kf 	1 	1.1 	8/16-bit DDR3[9] 	Vivante GC800 	
ATM7019 	Tablet 	? 	MIPS 	74Kf 	1 	1.2 	8/16-bit DDR3[9] 	Vivante GC800 	
ATM7021A[10] 	Tablet 	? 	ARMv7-A	Cortex-A9 family[a]	2 	Up to 1.3	DDR3/DDR3L (512 MB) 	PowerVR SGX540 @ 500 MHz[11] 	Q3 2013[12]
ATM7029[13] 	Tablet 	? 	ARMv7-A	Cortex-A5[14][15] 	4 	Up to 1.2	456 MHz DDR2/DDR3, up to 2 GB 	Vivante GC1000 Plus @ 480 MHz[11]	Q4 2012[16]
ATM7029B[12] 	Tablet 	? 	ARMv7-A	Cortex-A5 	4 	1.2 	? 	PowerVR SGX540 @ 500 MHz[11] 	
ATM7039c[12] 	Set-top-box[17] 	40 nm 	ARMv7-A	Cortex-A9 	4 	1.6 	Dual-channel (64-bit total) 	PowerVR SGX544MP @ 450 MHz[11] 	
ATM7039s[18] 	Tablet, set-top box	28 nm LP	ARMv7-A	Cortex-A9 	4 	1.6 	? 	PowerVR SGX544MP 	
ATM7059[18][19]	Tablet, set-top box	28 nm LP	ARMv7-A	Cortex-A9 	4 	1.6 	DDR3, DDR3L, LPDDR2, LPDDR3 	PowerVR SGX544MP 	Q4 2014
S500 	Android 	28 nm 	ARMv7-A	Cortex-A9 	4 	1.6 	DDR3, DDR3L, LPDDR2, LPDDR3 	PowerVR SGX544MP 	
S900[20] 	Android 	28 nm 	ARMv8-A	Cortex-A53 	4 	1.8 	DDR3, DDR3L, LPDDR2, LPDDR3, up to 4GB	PowerVR G6230 	
V500 	Virtual Reality 	28 nm 	ARMv7-A	Cortex-A9 	4 	? 	DDR3, DDR3L, LPDDR2, LPDDR3 	PowerVR SGX544MP 	
V700 	Virtual Reality 	28 nm 	ARMv8-A	Cortex-A53 	4 	? 	DDR3, DDR3L, LPDDR2, LPDDR3 	ARM Mali-450 MP6 	
GT7 	GTT 	28 nm 	ARMv8-A	Cortex-A53 	4 	? 	DDR3, DDR3L, LPDDR2, LPDDR3 	ARM Mali-450 MP6 	
# ^ The term "Cortex-A9 family" used by Actions is similar to the description used by the company for the CPU cores inside the ATM7029, which have been proven to be Cortex-A5 cores. The ARM Cortex-A5 would be more be accurately described as being "Cortex-A7 family", being slower than but otherwise equivalent to the ARM Cortex-A7, rather than being directly related to the higher-performance ARM Cortex-A9.
=== Adoption[edit] ===
link=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Actions_Semiconductor_ATM7029_chipset.jpg|thumb|Close-up of the Ainol Hero 10 II PCB showing the Actions Semiconductor ATM7029 SoC ASIC and the ATC2603A Mixed signal ASIC.
link=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:CubieBoard_6_(34851730484).png|thumb|Close -up of the Cubieboard 6 PCB showing Actions Semiconductor S500 SoC
S1 MP3 players use chipsets designed by Actions.
In 2012, Actions Semiconductor produced the ATM7029 which is a quad-core ARM Cortex-A5-based SoC using Vivante Corporations GC1000 GPU.[21] This SoC has been used in the Ainol NOVO10 Hero II tablet and other low end tablets.[22]
For Q2 2014, Actions was reported to be fourth largest supplier of tablet processors to the Chinese market.[23]
== Legal cases[edit] ==
At one point, Actions was sued by SigmaTel with SigmaTel prevailing. The findings were that Actions infringed upon SigmaTel by directly copying the ASICs designed by SigmaTel, once a world leader in the MP3 ASIC market. SigmaTel later was sold to Freescale Semiconductor.[citation needed]
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