MediaTek and ARM have signed a deal allowing the Taiwanese chip maker to use ARM’s Cortex A50 processors and ARMMali Graphics chips.
ARM have signed a deal with MediaTek allowing the up and coming processor manufacturer to use semiconductor IP for ARMCortex A50 series processors and ARMMali graphics.
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The ARM Coretex-A57 and A53 technology which Mediatek now have the rights to use supports the ARMv8-A Architecture with wither 64-bit and 32-bit execution. These processors will bring better performance to Android smartphones and tablets which remaining compatible with the current 32-bit ecosystem allowing manufacturers to simply update to the newSoC tech.
As Mediatek are on the verge of releasing their new 8-core MT6592 and 4G LTE processors we don’t expect the newARMdeal to make it’s way in to Chinese phones until the 2nd quarter of next year.
So this means MediaTek is finally gonna give us some SoCs worth having in our phones? One year to go!
Plot Twist; snapdragon 200 is the rock bottom of performance SoC offered by qualcomm, while MT6589 is mtk’s flagship, price wise is chepaer than qualcomm’s flagship, but also more expensive than snapdragon 200.
Mtk6589t is better than the exynos 4412 in my Galaxy s3 from my personal experience. So it is definitely not bad. I have a star s5 and a Galaxy s3 international
Exynos 4412 was launched in early 2012, announced on 2011, mtk was announced and launched this year (around june), there is more than a year of difference, lifecycle of exynos as high end is over, not is mid end and samsung has already higher performers.
at last mediatek is using better cores instead of using more cores,
i’m not sure that is a good idea it can be the same problem than on computer un system possibly better but unexploited because the devs don’t want to recode their own programs !