Since Lei Jun announced the release of Xiaomi Box on Weibo on November 9, after several days of waiting, this product has come as scheduled. We learned from the introduction that Xiaomi Box adopts Android 4.0 system, supports 1080P HD output at most, and has HDMI interface and RT-45 network cable interface, which can cover the use needs of most users. In addition, the millet box also supports the Mrico USB interface to support the OTG function. The storage space of the millet box can be expanded through external storage devices.

At present, the disassembly photos of Xiaomi box have been released. The overall size of its main board is not large, and the middle part is a master chip. From the photos, we can see that the Xiaomi box uses Amlogic 8726-M3 chip, which is not widely used, but the other two similar models "Amlogic 8726-M" and "Amlogic 8726-MX" Previously, it was widely used in tablet computers and won a good reputation.

Amlogic's Chinese name is "Amlogic Semiconductor". The company's core is in the United States, including some SOC design and software architecture. It has more than 320 engineers and a strong AE and FAE team in China, mainly for local support. At present, the mainstream chip products of Amlogic include dual core AML8726-MX and single core AML8726-M. The AML8726-M3 used in the Xiaomi box is close to the single core AML8726-M. Let's take a look.

Amlogic 8726-M3 chip:

Mali-400 GPU：

The Mali-400 MP is the world's first multi-core GPU that conforms to OpenGL ES 2.0. It can provide excellent 2D and 3D acceleration performance, and can be scaled up to 1080p resolution. At the same time, ARM maintains a leading position in energy consumption and bandwidth efficiency. The Mali-400MP can be expanded from a single core to a quad core, with significant performance improvement. MP is the abbreviation of "MPCore", which stands for scalability. It is simply thought that multi-core can be realized.