Allwinner is one of the smaller names in the semiconductor industry. Nevertheless, the fabless company's designed chips make their way to many tablets coming out of China (actually, most remain in the country and get consumed by the people living there itself). Anyhow, like any other firm with a goal for survival, expansion and world domination, new details about Alwinner's all powerful new chipset were spilled out today. And here is the sauce.

　　The new Allwinner A80 reportedly features eight cores in total. Four of them are based on ARM Cortex A15, while the four remaining are low power Cortex A7 cores. All eight cores are clustered in groups of two following ARM's bitg.LITTLE approach, much like Samsung's Exynos 5 Octa chipsets. And thanks to HPM (Heterogeneous Process Migration) mode, all eight cores will be able to work together in tandem, which is unlike the case with the Exynos 5 Octa.

　　Allwinner is also working on a quad-core chipset, A70, which is made of 2 x ARM Cortex A15 and 2 x ARM Cortex A7 cores. Also, in the future, the company will launch their very own 64-bit SoC with Cortex A57/Cortex A53 cores in big.LITTLE configuration.