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China fabless: Nufront ventures beyond tablet chips
Junko Yoshida
11/6/2012 7:00 AM EST
Nufront’s flagship apps processors
Nufront’s third-generation apps processor NS115 (right) and its second-gene apps processor NuSmart 2816M (left)
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joyhaa
11/6/2012 8:22 PM EST
Unlike Allwinner and Rockchip, who walks the talk, Nufront has been a marketing company and lives on burning Gov funding, fast, for years. In fact without Gov funding, it's dead years ago. I don't think this is a promising company by any standard.
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junko.yoshida
11/7/2012 2:36 PM EST
Nufront is certainly growing bigger than ever before. The issue is whether the company are generating enough revenue to sustain all the engineers they hired in recent years.
But I find the Nufront play in areas that go beyond apps processors interesting. Again, how it pans out will greatly affect the company's future.
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uPlay Tablet
11/8/2012 2:59 PM EST
It will be difficult for NuFront. As the gateway of Chinese made tablets and provider of custom built tablet for vertical market, we at uPlay Tablet (http://www.uPlayTablet.com/) haven't seen them on our radar detector - we are working with handful of tablet factories and representing a couple top Chinese tablet brands, like Ainol . All of these tablets are powered by RockChip, AllWinner, ViMicro, and recently dual-core CPUs from AMLogic, but none of them by NuFront. The HDMI stick idea is not new, we have a few factories making such a product.
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JohnSm
11/8/2012 9:33 PM EST
The baseband and IPR strategy is interesting, as non of the Chinese chip makers have those, and the big guys like NV, Intel are all going after baseband. I think Nufornt is worth keeping an eye on, as 3,4 years ago, nobody heard of RockChip, AllWinner, ViMicro in the area as well. Chinese tablet will have a big share in the tablet market.
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junko.yoshida
11/9/2012 10:34 AM EST
I agree. Things do change and move fast in China. You can't take anything for granted.
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uPlay Tablet
11/9/2012 3:17 PM EST
ViMicro was founded more than 10 years by a couple Berkeley and Stanford returnees, and they IPOed on Nasdaq in 2004 (I forgot exactly which year, but long time ago). RockChip is also a company founded long time ago by mainly government funding. They didn't come up from nowhere.
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help.fulguy
11/10/2012 2:21 PM EST
Nice Ad Junk.
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help.fulguy
11/10/2012 2:23 PM EST
Funny. Patent wall in a chinese company. Are those the patents they infringed upon? Funny!!!
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