It has been quite a few years since the chip developer from Taiwan claimed to compete for the crown of performance of the entire Android world, but now the conditions seem to have matured for an intriguing comeback
We knew Mediatek was planning something big for us ahead of the new year, so far under the name Dimensity 2000 (which retrospectively replaces its numbering to help express the coveted leap) – and now comes the official announcement ahead of competitor Qualcomm and purporting to provide us with a new flagship in the Android world . Meet the Dimensity 9000 chip, which makes first-of-its-kind use of all new processing units from ARM and a state-of-the-art TSMC manufacturing process.
This flagship chip is based on the N4 manufacturing process, which is a minor minimization of TSMC’s previous senior manufacturing process by 5 nm on which Apple bases its A15, M1 and M1 Pro / Max chips, and is based on the new ARMv9 command set for the array. Traditional of eight processing cores – one large and advanced Cortex-X2 core with an operating frequency of up to 3.05GHz, three Cortex-A710 cores with an operating frequency of up to 2.85GHz and four more Cortex-A510 cores with a frequency of up to 1.8GHz . This is in addition to the new generation Mali-G710MP10 graphics core that reaches an operating frequency of up to 850MHz, and claims to provide a 35 percent jump in performance compared to current flagship chips for Android devices with an improvement of up to 60 percent in operating efficiency.
The Dimensity 9000 also features a dynamic 16-bit four-channel memory controller that supports LPDDR5 memories at 6,400MT / s by default – as well as 7,500MT / s LPDDR5X memories for an effective bandwidth of over 60GB / s , As the first recently announced technology application. The chip supports 8K video decoding at up to 60 frames per second and 4k video decoding at up to 120 frames per second, display controller with support for refresh rates of up to 144 Hz for 1,440p resolutions or up to 180 Hz for 1080p resolutions, built-in support for 6E Wi-Fi connectivity and Advanced Bluetooth 5.3 and also an exciting image processing engine that can operate with sensors with a resolution of up to 320 megapixels (!), Or simultaneously run three 32-megapixel sensors with HDR support for advanced computing-based photo applications.
The Dimensity 9000 also includes a built-in cellular modem with second- to fifth-generation networks, of course, when one can point to its relative disadvantage compared to competitors in this way probably the lack of support for 5G communications at mmWave (or above 6GHz), which are available in limited numbers A lot of markets around the globe at this time. However, the extra large storage capacity of sub-6 spectrum bands allows Mediatek to declare a maximum theoretical download speed of up to 7,000 gigabits per second, which is close to the combined download speeds of sub-6 and mmWave combined presented to us Qualcomm with its Snapdragon 888.
Mass production in the N4 process will begin in the first quarter of 2022, so it can be assumed that the first smartphones based on the Dimensity 9000 will arrive in the same time zone, during the first three months of next year – just in time for the first wave of flagship devices for 2022? The announcements will soon arrive and then we will find out if there really are more and more expensive and prestigious Mediatek devices.
Does Mediatek really have a chance to defeat Qualcomm and Samsung in the battle for the 2022 performance kingdom? Feel free to write us what you think in the comments.