WonderMedia

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WonderMedia
Industry Computer hardware
Founded2008
Defunct2016
Headquarters,
Products SoCs
Parent VIA Technologies
Website www.wondermedia.com.tw

WonderMedia was a fabless SoC company headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan. [1] It is a subsidiary of VIA Technologies. [2] It is notable for creating the low cost processors used in many Chinese Android and Windows CE-based devices. The SoC designs are collectively called the WonderMedia PRIZM platform and are based on the reference implementations provided by ARM Holdings. [3]

Contents

In 2016, WonderMedia was merged to VIA Technologies [4] .


Products

Wonder Media Systems on Chips
Model fab CPU GPU Memory technology HSA-features
Instruction set Microarchitecture CoresFrq (MHz)MicroarchitectureFrq (MHz)
WM8505 [5] ARMv5 ARM926EJ-S 1300 MHzCustom 2D acceleratorDDR2
WM8650 [6] ARM926EJ-S 1600 MHz?? DDR2/DDR3
WM8750 [7] ARMv6 ARM1176JZF1800 MHz Mali-200 DDR2/DDR3
WM8850 [8] ARMv7 Cortex-A9 11000 MHz Mali-400 DDR3/LPDDR2 ?
WM8860 [9] Cortex-A7 21200 MHz Mali-450 DDR3/LPDDR2?
WM8880 [10] Cortex-A9 21500 MHz Mali-400MP2 DDR3/LPDDR2?
WM8950 [11] Cortex-A9 11000 MHz Mali-400 DDR3/LPDDR2?
WM8980 [12] Cortex-A9 21200 MHz Mali-400MP2 DDR3/LPDDR2?

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References

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  2. "VIA Technologies WonderMedia Android Tablet and Laptop solutions". YouTube. 2010-06-03. Retrieved 2016-07-15.
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  4. 【公告】威盛電子與子公司─威信科電股份有限公司簡易合併案, Central News Agency via Yahoo! Taiwan. 2016-3-11.
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  12. "Technologies Inc - WONDERMEDIA PRIZM WM8980" (JSP). Wondermedia.com.tw. Retrieved 2016-07-15.