Mediatek officially announce their next generation Helio X20 processor. Here are the details.
A few weeks back we posted details and slides from a secret presentation held by Mediatek in China. The event spoke about their next-gen Helio X20 CPU, and while it wasn’t official back then, it is from today!
The Helio X20 processor is the worlds first mobile processor with Tri-cluster architecture and ten cores, or “deca-core”. Obviously part of the reason for the additional cores and new architecture is after performance, but the X20 also boasts unmatched power efficiency too.
Mediatek say that the chipset, which boasts a dual core Cortex A72 running at 2.5Ghz in its third processing cluster, is up to 30% more efficient than previous chips. What this should mean is longer battery life and cooler running even when gaming or crunching 4K video.
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Key specification features of the Helio X20 are 20nm manufacturing processor, 10 core/tri-cluster architecture, support for up to 32 mega-pixel main camera units, 4K and 2K video playback and recording, ARM MP4 700Mz GPU, World-model LTE modem and support for display of up to 2560 x 1600!
In addition to this Mediatek have also added CorePilot 3.0 to the processor for task management, support for dual main cameras which uses a built-in 3D deputy engine for fast imaging, and a multi-scale de-noise engine for better low-light camera performance.
It’s a rather impressive processor and one that is set to once again boost the profile of Chinese Android smartphones.
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Hoping my next phone has this with a 6″ 2k panel, stereo speakers with HiFi chip and high res camera with iOS.
Yeah i think you’re right, thanks.
I like it but 20nm when Samsung already did a 14nm processor doesn’t seem good.
The differences between 20nm and 14nm won’t matter much in real world performance. What will matter is the x20 is using the very powerful A72 cores, the Exnyos 7 is only using A57 and A53.
I hope, the Snapdragon 810 with the process technology of 20nm seems to suffer heating problems, i really hope Helio X20 isn’t the case!
Powerful and big I’d say!, 10 cores plus 4 of GPU would not probably fit in it
I really don’t, I always thought it was the size of the chip.
But now that you make think of it it seems to small to be realistic.
Funny how I have made at least 10 comments with that conviction and never been corrected. I’ll remove that soon
To give you a good example. every chip is the same size, even my 89nm amd ( 2002 one core) cpu is the same size with a 32nm one. BUT in the same x*y space of the chip you can squiz the tripple amount of transistors. Hope that helped.
That totally makes sense, thanks buddy