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Amlogic

American technology company, predominantly focused on designing and selling system on a chip integrated circuits for multimedia and gaming

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionSep 1, 2026
Entity authorityQ2843604
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Amlogic (USA) Ltd., also known as Amlogic, Inc. (sometimes stylized AMLogic) is a fabless semiconductor company that was founded on March 14, 1995, and is headquartered in Mountain View, California. It predominantly focuses on designing and selling system-on-a-chip (SoC) solutions. Amlogic has offices worldwide including Mountain View (HQ), Bangalore, Seoul, Singapore, Tokyo, London, Milan, Munich, Japan, Taiwan, and Novi Sad, Serbia, and offices in Hong Kong and China.

It developed Video CD player chips and later chips for DVD players and other applications involving MPEG2 decoding. Am logic was involved in the creation of the HVD (High-Definition Versatile Disc) standard promoted in China as an alternative to DVD video disks used in DVD players. The company was a player in the developing Chinese tablet processor market since 2010–2013.

Amlogic is an ARM licensee and uses the ARM architecture in the majority of its products as of 2014. According to a joint press release with ARM in 2013, it was the first company to use ARM's Mali-450 GPU in a configuration with six cores or more.

Products

Tablet computer SoC

AML8726 family

Amlogic AML8726-M – Legacy single core ARM Cortex A9-based SoC with ARM Mali-400 GPU released in 2011, with a 16-bit DRAM interface and manufactured on a 65 nm process.

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Editorial reviewA sound reference starting point where classification, measurement and the date of the underlying evidence remain visible. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1995, 2010, 2013, 2014—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1995. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Amlogic, American and technology providing the first useful test.
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