Articles tagged "Mediatek"

Smartphone shipments have been on the decline for the past few months as the ongoing memory chip shortage continues to plague OEMs. And as you can imagine, other components are getting hit too. Take...

MediaTek is expected to launch the Dimensity 9600 SoC this year, and a new rumor from China now claims there will actually be three versions. The Dimensity 9600s is said to be basically a Dimensity...

The skyrocketing costs of memory chips are changing the product mix of smartphone makers – cheaper, lower-margin phones aren’t selling so well, while pricier, high-performance models have bigger...

The gap between smartphone chips in 2026 is absurd. The fastest chip we’ve tested is roughly 15 times more powerful than the slowest one still found in modern smartphones. And yet both can run...

MediaTek just unveiled the Dimensity 7500 with an upgraded CPU, GPU, and NPU. The SoC will compete head-on with Qualcomm's Snapdragon 7 series and will power upper-midrangers in the coming...

Earlier this year, MediaTek unveiled the Dimensity 8500, a 4nm (TSMC N4P) chipset with all-big CPU cores (eight Cortex-A725) and a Mali-G720 MC8 GPU. Now the company is refreshing that chip as the...

The next wave of flagship Android phones and tablets will, for the most part, use chipsets from either Qualcomm or MediaTek. We’ve already seen some details for the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6, and we...

MediaTek is expected to unveil the Dimensity 9600 SoC later this year as its next flagship chip, but the company is also working on the Dimensity 8600 upper-midrange SoC as well. This is important...

MediaTek introduced direct successors to last year's Dimensity 7400 and 7400X chipsets. These do not offer a generational upgrade but a refresh. Even their names imply this strongly - Dimensity 7450...

MediaTek introduced its flagship mobile chipset, the Dimensity 9500 SoC, in September last year, and has now followed it up with the new Dimensity 9500s. The company has also announced the mid-range...

MediaTek is holding a launch event in China on January 15, and is expected to unveil two new chipsets on that occasion. Rumor has it will we finally see the much-anticipated Dimensity 8500 at this...

MediaTek has quietly unveiled the Dimensity 7100 chipset, presumably the successor to the 7050. The 7100 comes with an octa-core CPU with four Arm Cortex-A78 cores clocked at up to 2.4GHz and four...

Counterpoint Research has published its findings and predictions for the shipments of GenAI-capable smartphone chipsets. Generative AI or GenAI, is a catch-all term for text, image, audio and video...

MediaTek has announced its newest flagship chipset, the Dimensity 9500. The company claims it sets a new standard in on-device AI, gaming, and power efficiency. The Dimensity 9500 uses the new...

Qualcomm is unveiling the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 SoC on September 23, and the main competitor for this flagship chipset in the Android world will of course be MediaTek's upcoming Dimensity 9500. A...

Qualcomm already confirmed it plans to host the annual Snapdragon Summit from September 23 -25, where we’ll see the announcement of its Snapdragon 8 Elite chip. But arch-rival MediaTek may one-up...

Back in April, we heard that the upcoming MediaTek Dimensity 9500 will have an Immortalis-Drage GPU with reduced power consumption and improved ray tracing. As we get closer to the launch, leakster...

Update: GameSir has confirmed to Android Authority that Google Pixel phones will also benefit from the improved support for Mali GPUs. One of the things that makes Android so popular is its...

MediaTek announced the new Dimensity 8450, a direct successor to the Dimensity 8400 released back in December 2024. As the name implies, the upgrades are minimal, and the company introduced mostly...

MediaTek's next-gen flagship SoC, the Dimensity 9500, is rumored to arrive earlier than usual to beat Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Elite 2 to the market. So we are looking at early to mid-September...