Living in UK town, I have never felt the need to have satellite communication technology in my phone, but this seems to be the new frontier brands are targeting. Apple announced Emergency SOS on the iPhone 14 last year and this has inevitably seen more interest in the technology from both from consumers and brands….
As much as I love what MediaTek has been doing over the past few years, I am also quite critical of the unremitting SoC launches that consist of incremental specification changes. Thankfully, today’s MediaTek Dimensity 7200 is a product launch that introduces a significant architecture change compared to other Dimensity chipsets. MediaTek Dimensity 7200 is…
MediaTek today announced the latest chipset in the Genio platform for IoT devices, the octa-core Genio 700 designed for smart home, smart retail, and industrial IoT products. The new chipset will be featured as part of a demo at MediaTek’s booth at CES 2023. With a focus on power efficiency, the MediaTek Genio 700 is…
At CES 2023, – MediaTek, one of the first adopters of Wi-Fi 7 technology, will be demonstrating a full ecosystem of production-ready devices featuring the next generation of wireless connectivity for the first time. During the annual tech summit, Mediatek announced the Filogic 880 & Filogic 380 WiFi 7 Chips and there were some prototype…
Last month, Qualcomm announced its mid-cycle refresh of the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1. Breaking from the traditional fractional improvement with CPU/GPU frequencies, Qualcomm made the dramatic move of shifting fabrication processes. The result was a significant improvement in both performance and efficiency for the Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1. MediaTek has now announced its mid-cycle…
MediaTek is the last of the three big vendors to announce its range of WiFi 7 chips. Qualcomm announced its WiFi 7 Networking Pro series at the start of May, and Broadcomm has four WiFi 7 products within its ecosystem which were announced back in April. While the development of WiFI 7 is ongoing and…
At MWC 2022, MediaTek is launching their “little brother” to the flagship Dimensity 9000. It is actually two chipsets, the Dimensity 8100 and 8000, with fractionally different CPU/GPU frequencies. These two chipsets have been rumoured to offer Qualcomm Snapdragon 888-like performance but at a lower price point. MediaTek has also announced the Dimensity 1300. It…
It is currently expected that the MediaTek Dimensity 9000 will cost significantly more than this years flagship Dimensity 1200 due to the adopting cutting edge technologies that will put them in direct competition with the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen1. Last week, MediaTek confirmed that there would be a new Dimensity 8000 chipset launched, which will…
This morning, MediaTek sent out a press release announcing the launch of the Dimensity 9000 (which we already knew about) and some of the smartphone brands that will be using the new chipset. The following brands have been confirmed to adopt and endorse the new chipset: OPPO Vivo Xiaomi Honor Interestingly, there is no mention…
MediaTek has launched their latest chipsets, following the now-familiar pattern of minor changes to existing hardware. A relatively generic press release has been distributed, so some of the exact specifications remain unclear. MediaTek Dimensity 920 vs 900 The MediaTek Dimensity 920 is fabricated on a 6nm manufacturing node and offers a claimed 9% boost in…
Following on from my previous post, comparing the MediaTek Helio G88 vs Helio G85 & G80, we have the new Helio G96. The MediaTek Helio G88 is a largely forgettable chipset, prolonging the life of the existing G85/G80, but the Helio G96 offers some decent upgrades from its own predecessors. Key Features of MediaTek Helio…
Yesterday, MediaTek announced two new 4G chipsets, the Helio G96 and Helio G85, which will be focussed on the affordable end of the market. The Helio G96 is the most interesting of the two, and I will write a separate post for that one. The MediaTek Helio G88 doesn’t warrant a long post dedicated to…