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【Awinic Inside】Awinic Chip Empowers Insta360 Action Cameras, Ushering in a New Era of Shooting

2025-08-21

Ace Pro2, the flagship model launched by Insta360 – a global leader in action cameras – is equipped with Awinic chips inside.

High-Voltage Haptic

The Haptic vibration effect stands out for its all-round enhancement on the touchscreen. Meanwhile, addressing the pain point of difficulty in confirming the validity of touch operations due to bumpy road conditions in outdoor scenarios, Awinic’s haptic feedback solution provides customized vibration feedback for every screen touch. This effectively resolves the issue, allowing users to easily verify the effectiveness of touch operations even in complex outdoor environments and significantly improving the user experience.

Figure 1: Typical Application Diagram of Haptic


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Beyond continuous investment in product R&D, Awinic also actively participates in the formulation of industry standards to build a new ecosystem for integrated circuit standardization. At the IEEE Standards Conference – Game and Esports Standardization Seminar, Awinic officially released the IEEE 2861 International Standard for Mobile Game Performance Optimization.

This standard aims to define universal interfaces and vibration waveform description files, unify the interaction protocol between mobile terminals and games, reduce the adaptation burden on R&D teams, and lay the foundation for the wide application of haptic feedback. As a participating unit, Awinic provided key support for the release of the standard with its haptic feedback chips, supporting algorithms, and other technologies.

Awinic has accumulated rich technical expertise and built a complete product portfolio in the haptic feedback field, covering full product lines for normal voltage, charge pump boost, and inductor boost. Equipped with the Tiktap™ algorithm, these products are widely used in smart hardware such as smartphones, wearables, virtual reality controllers, and automotive smart surfaces.

Since 2016, Awinic has seized the first wave of haptic feedback development. Through continuous R&D investment and technological breakthroughs, it has evolved from a pure haptic feedback hardware chip provider to a comprehensive haptic feedback solution provider integrating hardware chips, software algorithms, and effect tuning capabilities. This complete haptic feedback system has obtained certifications from well-known brands such as Meta (formerly Facebook) and vivo.

Audio PA

For voice playback – a crucial function for instantly enjoying works right after shooting – clear and pleasant sound is essential. Action cameras are inherently compact, with a horizontal area only half that of a standard 6-inch smartphone. Awinic’s inductor-free solution effectively reduces the board space occupied.

Figure 2: Typical Application Diagram of Audio PA


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With 16 years of deep cultivation in the audio field, Awinic has successfully developed a full range of audio power amplifiers, covering Class AB, Class D, and Class K categories. These include models for normal voltage, CP boost, Boost boost, as well as analog and digital interfaces. For typical product models, please refer to the table below.

Table 1: Typical Product Models

USB 3.1 Switch

For data transmission: massive high-definition image data captured by action cameras requires high-speed transmission interfaces to minimize transfer time – a key driver behind the continuous evolution of USB protocols. Awinic’s USB switch solution offers a maximum bandwidth of 10GHz and supports reversible connection for Type-C interfaces, delivering a convenient and efficient data transmission experience to users.

Figure 3: Typical Application Diagram of USB 3.1 Switch


Awinic Recommended Type-C Solution

In addition, Awinic has a comprehensive product layout for the protection and connection of Type-C interface power paths and signal paths, as well as power transmission protocol handshakes. Its overall Type-C port solution is as follows:

Figure 4: Awinic Type-C Port Solution

Table 2: Product List of Awinic Type-C Port Solution


Awinic Recommended OIS Solution

Camera anti-shake is widely regarded as a core function of action cameras. With years of experience in the camera motor driver field, Awinic has successfully launched a variety of products, including open-loop/closed-loop VCMs, OIS Drivers, and OIS SoCs integrated with OIS algorithms.

Among these, Awinic’s SoC OIS series stands out with unique advantages: it has a built-in MCU processor and 64K Flash memory, and its integrated OIS algorithm effectively facilitates the achievement of high-performance optical image stabilization.

Figure 5: Typical Application Diagram of Awinic OIS

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