On Thursday, Nov. 10,  on the MediaTek Executive Summit, Adam King, Vice President and General Manager, Client Computing Business Unit, Mediatek, introduced the Kompanio 520 and Kompanio 528 chipsets for entry-level Chromebooks. The new chips are the successors of the Kompanio 500, with upgraded CPU, GPU, video codec, higher energy effectivity, and with help for increased decision show.

For each merchandise, the heterogeneous 8-core CPU unit combines 2 efficiency cores Arm Cortex-A76 and 6 environment friendly core Arm Cortex-A55, a major improve from the Kompanion 500 that options 2 Cortex-A73 and 6 Cortex-A53. The CPU depends on LPDDR4x RAM clocked at 3733MHz.

Adam King, Vice President and General Manager, Client Computing Business Unit, offered the single-core efficiency enchancment of the brand new Kompanio chips.

The solely distinction between the 520 and the 528 is the efficiency cores’ frequency, which is clocked at 2GHz for the 520 and a couple of.2GHz for the 528.

During the presentation, Adam King stated that the single-core efficiency acquired an 80% enhance whereas the multi-core efficiency is 15% higher, in comparison with the earlier technology.

“THE SINGLE-CORE PERFORMANCE GOT AN 80% BOOST COMPARED TO THE PREVIOUS GENERATION”

Mediatek says it has a sizeable benefit in opposition to the Intel Celeron N4500, a widespread non-heterogeneous dual-core Chromebook processor, particularly in relation to performance-per-watt. Consuming much less energy to carry out a given job may be seen as emitting much less carbon (electrical energy manufacturing emits carbon), and increased energy effectivity ought to translate into higher ESG metrics (Environmental, Social, and Governance) in our opinion.

“The sustainability benefits of the MediaTek Kompanio products are significant too, especially in heavy workloads where MediaTek’s low power processors generate 40% – 60% less energy-based greenhouse gas emissions compared to competitor platforms,” stated Victor Tyan, Senior Director, Client Computing GTM.

Power effectivity and efficiency comparability with Intel’s Celeron N4500

On the GPU facet, the Arm Mali-G72 MP3 is changed by the Arm Mali G52 MC2 2EE in each new chips.  “Both GPUs [Arm Mali-G72 MP3 & Arm Mali G52 MC2] are very close in terms of performance and for most people, the performance difference won’t be noticeable in real-world scenarios. But if you still want the better GPU, then Mali-G52 MC2 is the way to go”, in accordance with Tech Centurion (Centurion Mark). We’ll have to check to have extra correct outcomes.

MediaTek claims a 20% GPU speedup

The new dual-core AI processing unit (APU) delivers AI options resembling AI-driven real-time low-light video noise discount and helps with picture segmentation and tagging used for digital inexperienced display screen and picture high quality enhancement (i.e. shade and distinction tuning optimized for various components of the picture).

The ISP has been improved with as much as 32 MP help for the digital camera. This characteristic is leveraged from the smartphone SoCs. OEMs won’t use the best decision within the close to future, however they’ll scale it down simply to five MP for instance, which is a large enchancment over current laptop computer webcams (largely with 0.7MP webcams).

The upgraded multimedia engine consists of {hardware} VP9 decoding and H.265 encoding, which is an improve from the H.264 encoding and H.264, H.265 / HEVC decoding of the final technology (software program VP9). The system helps 60fps Full HD video recording now, an improve from the FHD 30 fps help within the Kompanio 500. MediaTek claims a 2X efficiency enhance for the multimedia unit.

The Kompanio 520 and 528 every help a Full HD+ show and a Full HD exterior show, which doubles the decision help in comparison with the earlier technology chipsets.

ChromeOS is understood for its good safety monitor file and Victor Tyan reminded us that MediaTek works carefully with Google to combine the most recent safety features resembling Verified Boot, Built-in Virus Protection, and Multi-User Support with their newest Kompanio 520 and 528 processors.

Conclusion

The Kompanio 520 and 528 processors look very promising when it comes to efficiency and excessive energy effectivity for the uber-affordable Chromebook section.

MediaTek insisted on the all-day battery life, a characteristic that helps to alleviate battery life anxiousness and permits college students to raised give attention to their work. To show the purpose, the chip maker confirmed a photograph of its sales space at an schooling tradeshow, the place a spread of Kompanio-powered Chromebooks was exhibited with out a single energy cable mendacity round.

Schools would possibly like that characteristic lots since it’s definitely safer for youths to flow into freely in a classroom freed from wires and it might be simpler for the IT personnel to handle all of the computer systems.

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