Actions Technology Co. Ltd. () is a Chinese fabless semiconductor company founded in 2000 and headquartered in Zhuhai, Guangdong provinceYouTube Interview and has offices in both Shanghai and Shenzhen. The company has about 600 employees and designs SoCs for tablets, digital audio players, photo viewers and related products.
History In 2008 Actions Semiconductor acquired Hi-Trend Technology Co. Ltd's 2D graphics technology. 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. On 12 September 2016, Actions Semiconductor announced its merger with Starman Limited, which was completed on 9 December 2016.
Products The following is a list of system-on-chips developed and marketed by Actions Semiconductor, mainly targeting tablets. Model Number Application Process CPU Memory interface GPU Availability ISA Processor # of Cores Frq (GHz) ATM7013 Tablet MIPS 74Kf 1 1.1 8/16-bit DDR3 Vivante GC800 ATM7019 1 1.2 ATM7021A ARMv7-A Cortex-A9 family 2 Up to 1.3 DDR3/DDR3L (512 MB) PowerVR SGX540 @ 500 MHz Q3 2013 ATM7029 Cortex-A5 4 Up to 1.2 456 MHz DDR2/DDR3, up to 2 GB Vivante GC1000 Plus @ 480 MHz Q4 2012 ATM7029B Cortex-A5 1.2 PowerVR SGX540 @ 500 MHz ATM7039c Set-top-box 40 nm Cortex-A9 1.6 Dual-channel (64-bit total) PowerVR SGX544MP @ 450 MHz ATM7039s Tablet, set-top box 28 nm LP PowerVR SGX544MP ATM7059 DDR3, DDR3L, LPDDR2, LPDDR3 Q4 2014 S500 Android 28 nm S900 ARMv8-A Cortex-A53 1.8 DDR3, DDR3L, LPDDR2, LPDDR3, up to 4GB PowerVR G6230 V500 Virtual Reality ARMv7-A Cortex-A9 DDR3, DDR3L, LPDDR2, LPDDR3 PowerVR SGX544MP V700 ARMv8-A Cortex-A53 ARM Mali-450 MP6 GT7 GTT
Adoption
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. This SoC has been used in the Ainol NOVO10 Hero II tablet and other low end tablets.
For Q2 2014, Actions was reported to be fourth largest supplier of tablet processors to the Chinese market.
Legal cases 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.
References
External links Actions Semiconductor company website S1MP3 website - contains end-user guides and information about firmware for S1 MP3 Players