SSC385 has a 1.5 TOPS NPU (a new IPU); Tino noted it on the MC-A87, a new $15 Taobao module with SSC385 (64Mb) and a GC8613 8 MP sensor.
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The SSC385 module MC-A87 (not 388) likely has only 64 MB of DDR2 and costs only 115 CNY on Taobao (2026-09).
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(SSC38X family) The new SSC38x has a 1.5 TOPS IPU plus some sort of AI-ISP (Tino is not sure what that means yet), even with only 64 MB of DDR2.
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(SSC38X family) The new SSC385/SSC387 look like the good old Cortex-A7 (perhaps 2x, like SSC338Q) with half of Maruko bolted on plus the new IPU and AI-ISP, whereas Maruko is all Cortex-A35.
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(SSC38X family) Tino guesses SSC38X is a new SSC338, with the same Cortex-A7 if he recalls right.
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