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MediaTek news covers developments from the global semiconductor firm known for its mobile chipsets, IoT solutions, and smart TV platforms. Innovations include 5G SoCs, AI-enhanced multimedia processors, and energy-efficient wireless modules. MediaTek plays a pivotal role in democratizing advanced electronics through high-performance, cost-effective components. For Electronics Weekly readers, updates on MediaTek provide insight into mass-market product design, competitive chip architecture, and integration strategies across mobile, automotive, and consumer electronics sectors.

ESA consortium makes first 5.5G NR-NTN connection via LEO satellites

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The European Space Agency (ESA), MediaTek, Eutelsat, Airbus, Sharp, ITRI, and Rohde & Schwarz are highlighting what they describe as world’s first Rel-19 5G-Advanced NR-NTN connection over LEO satellites. The connection uses OneWeb (Eutelsat) satellites with Ku-band conditional handover. And NR-NTN stands for New Radio-Non-Terrestrial Network. Rel-19 Note that 5G-advanced has also been dubbed as 5.5G. The 3GPP Release 19 ...

MWC: 5G modem offers 12Gbit/s 5G NRDC FR1+FR2

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For Mobile World Congress, MediaTek has announced a high-end AI phone modem for 3GPP Release 17 and forthcoming Release 18 – after announcing three mid-range phone processors this morning. The 5G modem, called M90, supports 12Gbit/s downlink and Release 17 2T-2T uplink Tx switching. “This new modem supports sub-6GHz FR1 with up to 6CC carrier aggregation and mmWave FR2 with ...

MWC: MediaTek phone processors for gaming and AI

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To be announced at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, MediaTek has filled out its latest generation of phone processors. Positioned under its flagship Dimensity 9400 and premium 8400, the new 7400 and 7400X are optimised for gaming and AI camera processing. Built on TSMC’s 4nm process, both 7400 chips have an octa-core CPU: 4x 2.6GHz Arm Cortex-A78 cores and 4x ...

DigiKey adds MediaTek to its linecard

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Fabless semiconductor company, MediaTek has signed a global distribution agreement with DigiKey. Products available for immediate shipment include MediaTek’s development boards, development kits and programmers, ICs and RF and wireless products. Taiwan’s MediaTek is the fifth largest fabless semiconductor company in the world, said DigiKey. Its portfolio includes SoCs for embedded systems, mobile devices, home entertainment, network and connectivity, automated ...

Mediatek’s flagship phone processor

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Mediatek has adopted Arm’s top-end Cortex-X925 CPU in its second-generation ‘all big core’ phone processor – Dimensity 9400, made by TSMC on a 3nm process. The X925 runs at up to 3.63GHz and has 2Mbyte of L2 cache, and shares the IC with three Cortex-X4 cores (1Mbyte L2 cache) and four Cortex-A720 cores (512kbyte L2 cache). These all share 12Mbyte ...

Winner – MediaTek Semiconductor Product of the Year (Analogue)

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This chipset provides new levels of connectivity with the world’s first commercially available devices using 3GPP NTN technology. It allows the use of satellite networks for reliable communication in remote locations, bringing connectivity to previously inaccessible areas, for use in agriculture, forestry and logistics. Judges were impressed with the evidence of its impact with one describing it as an “impressive ...

Mediatek to invest in UK; founder wins Noyce Medal

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MediaTek, whose chairman was awarded the Robert N. Noyce Medal yesterday, is to invest $12.6 million in the UK over the next five years. The founder and chairman of MediaTek, Ming-Kai Tsai (pictured), will be presented with the Noyce Medal – the semiconductor industry’s highest honour – at the IEEE Honors Ceremony, which will be held May 3, 2024 in ...

Phone processor for gaming and AI photography

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MediaTek has announced some details of its Dimensity 7200 phone SoC. To be built on a 4nm process from TSMC, it will have eight Arm cores: two 2.8GHz Cortex-A715 cores and six Cortex-A510, then MediaTek’s own AI processing pnit (APU) and an Arm Mali G610 GPU. Memory runs at 6.4Gbit/s and there is UFS 3.1 for storage. For gamers, there ...

Mediatek reveals 5G smartphone chips

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MediaTek has announced 6nm processors aimed at 5G mobile phones. Dimensity 920 includes hardware-based 4K HDR video capture, supporting up to four concurrent cameras and sensors up to 108Mpixel, and the company is claiming a 9% boost in gaming performance compared to its Dimensity 900 predecessor. An octa-core Arm Cortex-A78 running at up to 2.5GHz is at the heart of its processing, ...

Arm-based gaming processor

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MediaTek has launched  its Helio G85 mobile gaming-focused chipset. The chipset integrates an Arm Mali-G52 GPU with a peak of 1GHz. Equipped with MediaTek’s proprietary HyperEngine, the Helio G85 achieves a Manhattan benchmark score up to 25fps. The device’s octa-core CPU integrates two Arm Cortex-A75 processors operating at up to 2GHz and six Cortex-A55 processors operating at up to 1.8GHz. ...