Rutronik offers MediaTek’s AI-powered SoC, Genio 700
Responsive edge processing, AI and connectivity for industrial, smart home, interactive retail and commercial applications can be delivered by MediaTek’s Genio 700 (MT8390) SoC, which is now available from Rutronik following a recent franchise agreement covering Europe and Israel.
The Genio 700 SoC is an efficient, in-chip AI multiprocessor (APU) which provides 4TOPS (Terra operations per second) performance for deep learning, neural network acceleration and also computer vision applications when used with cameras up to 32Mpixel at 30 frames per second (via in-chip ISP and MIPI-CSI interfaces).
Genio 700 has an octa-core CPU with two Arm Cortex-A78 CPUs and six Arm Cortex-A55 CPUs, an Arm Mali-G57 GPU, up to 8Gbyte of quad channel LPDDR4X memory and fast UFS storage. The SoC supports Yocto and Ubuntu Linux, as well as Android.
The Genio 700 is based on TSMC’s advanced N6 (6nm-class) production process, making it “extremely power efficient”; product developers can use fanless enclosures or battery-powered systems, advised Rutronik.
The company added that its level of integration coupled with a small footprint help minimise bill of materials and development costs and accelerate time-to-market.
The Genio-700 platform can be expanding via PCI-Express and USB, and it supports a wide range of connectivity options, including native Gigabit Ethernet with TSN (time sensitive networking) as well as Wi-Fi 6 and 5G module options.
The dual display support of up to 4K at 60 frames per second and Full HD at 60 frames per second enables increases screen real estate while multimedia encoding/decoding engines, including AV1 decoding, make the Genio 700 suitable for interactive advertising, audio and video streaming services, and video conferencing and other personalised video services.
The Genio-700 is Arm SystemReady and carries Arm PSA certification for security.
MediaTek’s Genio series is a scalable line of four devices that bridges the gap between low-power Arm and high performance Intel / AMD processors.
Rutronik Elektronische Bauelemente was founded in 1973 and is still an independent family-owned company, based in Ispringen, Germany. It has more than 80 offices worldwide and logistics centres in Austin (Texas), Shanghai, Singapore, and Hong Kong, for customer support in Europe, Asia, and North America.
