Chip maker, Allwinner Technology has officially released the H6, the most advanced processor in the H-series range. The H6 is described as a high-performance, high-quality 4K HDR set-top box SoC that is for use in OTT, IPTV and DVB boxes.
The H6 processor uses quad ARM A53 core CPU architecture, with a MaliT720 GPU, support for OpenGL3.1, compatibility with DDR4 / DDR3 / LPDDR3 / EMMC5.0 and other flash memory formats and provides a variety of audio / video interfaces and common interfaces. There is support for H.265 6K@30fps video decoding, H.264 4K @ 30fps video encoding and Allwinner HDR display technology combined with the Allwinner Smartcolor 3.0 intelligent display engine.
The H6 will support the large-screen panoramic software player called Panoplayer which is claimed to offer an innovative solution to viewing VR content on your TV and the company said that it is avoiding past issues caused by sphere algorithms where there is North and South distortion coupled with polyhedron edges. Using the App users can enjoy immersive video and gaming experiences.
The H6 processor supports the 10bit HDR10 standard, its advantage lies in decoding, processing and outputting full-channel 10bit.
Allwinner’s H6 supports HDR and is for STBs. Click for higher resolution
