MediaTek’s new Dimensity 9000 flagship may compete with Qualcomm’s top-tier Snapdragon chips

MediaTek has simply introduced its newest flagship processor: the Dimensity 9000, the corporate’s strongest chip ever that appears prefer it ought to have the ability to go face to face with the most effective chips that extra fashionable rivals like Qualcomm and Samsung supply.

Where earlier top-tier Dimensity chips (like final 12 months’s Dimensity 1000) have been nonetheless much less highly effective than contemporaries like Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 888 or Samsung’s Exynos 2100, the brand new Dimensity 9000 is popping out of the gate to make a case for 2022 Android flagships.

The new Dimensity 9000 is the primary cellular chip to be constructed on TSMC’s 4nm course of, along with utilizing Arm’s new v9 structure. It’s additionally the primary announcement CPU to make use of Arm’s new core designs: a single Cortex-X2 efficiency core clocked at 3.05GHz, three Cortex-A710 cores at 2.85GHz, and 4 Cortex-A510 effectivity cores at 1.8GHz. The GPU, in the meantime, is a 10-core Arm Mali-G710, together with MediaTek’s fifth-generation APU with six whole cores for AI processing (which the corporate says presents 4 instances the efficiency and energy effectivity in comparison with its earlier era).

The new 18-bit Imagiq Gen 7 ISP claims to be the world’s first chip to be able to capturing a 320-megapixel picture (assuming your telephone has a sensor that may shoot at that stage), able to transferring knowledge at 9 gigapixels per second.

As one may count on for a contemporary smartphone chip, the Dimensity 9000 presents an onboard 5G modem with help for the 3GPP’s Release 16 specification. Notably, although, the brand new chip nonetheless lags behind rivals by solely providing built-in sub-6GHz 5G help, with out the quicker mmWave commonplace. The Dimensity 9000 does declare to be the primary smartphone to help Bluetooth 5.3 and can work with Wi-Fi 6E, too.

It’s probably that MediaTek received’t be alone for lengthy on the subject of utilizing the most recent Arm applied sciences — Qualcomm, for instance, is broadly anticipated to announce a successor to its Snapdragon 888 chipset at its annual Snapdragon Tech Summit on November thirtieth. But even when MediaTek finds that the Dimensity 9000 is merely in the identical weight class as no matter Qualcomm proclaims this 12 months, as a substitute of a leap forward, that’s a giant win for MediaTek, which has largely lagged behind till now.

MediaTek has lengthy been an also-ran on the subject of main Android gadgets, however the Dimensity 9000 reveals that it’s lastly seeking to actually compete. The query now’s whether or not telephone producers are prepared to hitch it.