Articles tagged "MediaTek"

Mediatek held a press conference to announce its financial results for the first half of the year. The Taiwanese company reported 16.8% monthly increase in revenue and 1.8% on a yearly basis, but another announcement grabbed our...

MediaTek announced today its gaming-centric Helio G90 and G90T chipsets promising excellent gaming experience on a budget thanks to the cost-effective 12nm FinFET manufacturing process from TSMC. And the first benchmarks are in. This score...

As expected, MediaTek officially announced its new gaming-centric SoCs - the Helio G90 and G90T. The new platforms utilize an octa-core combination of two ARM Cortex-A76 cores and six Cortex-A55s alongside the Mali-G76 GPU. Both the G90 and G90T are...

MediaTek is gearing up to release its first gamer-centric chipset kicking off the brand new Helio G-series on July 30. The manufacturer plans to introduce the G90 SoC at an event in Shanghai. Seeing how gaming phones are gaining momentum this move...

The Helio G90 will be the first dedicated gaming chip from MediaTek. The teaser poster that announced its existence doesn’t give away much, but the full reveal is coming soon. We can speculate that the G90 is based on the Helio P90, which has a...

MediaTek unveiled a new chipset for AI IoT purposes - the i700 (a successor to the i500). It’s quite powerful, even by smartphone standards, so it will likely find its way in Smart Displays, high-end security cameras and other more demanding...

MediaTek just unveiled its new Helio P65 chipset, with faster CPU cores as well as a beefed up NPU. It’s not a strict upgrade over the older Helio P60 chipset (and the very similar P70), however. The MediaTek Helio P65's CPU features two...

MediaTek has officially introduced its latest 5G modem Helio M70, as promised earlier this month. The new chipset is built on the 7nm process and is also the first platform that includes ARM’s Cortex-A77 CPU and Mali-G77 GPU. The announcement was...

Huawei, Samsung and Qualcomm already introduced their chipsets with support for 5G modems, and Mediatek is about to follow that example. The Taiwanese semiconductor manufacturer announced “it’s almost time” for “smart to meet fast” and the new 5G...

MediaTek will announce a 5G-capable chipset later this year. It will be built on a 7nm process and will aim for a more premium segment of the market. The company executives didn’t go into detail, but they did say that it will be a better performer...

Less than two months after the Helio P70 introduction, MediaTek launched the successor Helio P90 with better AI and even faster CPU. The new SoC comes with Google Lens and ARCore support, as well as a second generation of the MediaTek APU for more...

A Snapdragon SM6150 chipset has posted a score to the Geekbench database. It features an octa-core processor and will likely launch as a 600-series chip. Geekbench doesn’t say much about the CPU cores, other than one clock speed – 1.8GHz. That’s...

The Realme U1 announced yesterday is the first phone to feature MediaTek's Helio P70 chipset. MediaTek, however, is already working on its next premier mid-range SoC, and this will be called Helio P90. The company itself has started teasing the...

Aside from CPU and GPU benchmarks, modern chipsets need to worry about AI performance too. The upcoming Snapdragon 8150 from Qualcomm may claim the top spot, at least in Android-land. A test of the dev platform (i.e. a prototype board) shows...

Reports about the fingerprint sensor emerged from South Korea, revealing who will dominate the market next year. Qualcomm and MediaTek-owned Goodix are the two key players who will work with the biggest smartphone manufacturers in 2019. According...

MediaTek’s first 5G modem, the Helio M70, is expected to be in devices in the first half of 2019, says company’s CEO. But the company is working on an integrated 5G chipset as well, this one will arrive later – near the end of the year, meaning that...

MediaTek is following up on its AI-centric P60 chipset with a new more polished platform. The Helio P70 promises a 10-30% boost in AI tasks and a 13% improvement on general tasks. That said, things haven’t changed that much from the P60. The new...

The Helio P60 was announced this February and proved to be a popular chipset (it’s already used in 15 phones), but MediaTek will reportedly introduce a sequel by the end of this month. The Helio P70 will be very similar to the P60 – it will be...

Everyone knows that Apple's Face ID technology used in the iPhone X is one of the most secure solutions out there. It uses the so-called 3D Structured-Light technology, but only a few Android smartphones have that due to the cost of production....

MediaTek has announced a new series of processors for the burgeoning mid-range smartphone market. Called the A-series, it will be joining MediaTek's P and X-series for more expensive devices. The first model to be launched in this series...