Mediatek are all hands on deck these days. The Helio X10 and X20 have already impressed us and now details of the Mediatkek Helio X30 have really gotten things going!
Taiwanese Mediatek has seen a serious change in the way manufacturers and customers alike see the brand and its products. This time last year many Chinese phone fans would have given anything to have a Snapdragon chip in place of a MTK model, but the story has now switched in the opposite direction.
Now when we see the latest Qualcomm chipsets in a phone we groan and ask why couldn’t a Mediatek chip have been used? Not only were the MT6752 and other chips game changers, but the now very powerful Helio range have really shown us all what Mediatek can do.
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Mediatek’s next trick will be a Helio X30 a supped up version of the X10 and X20. From early reports the Helio X30 will boast 10 core architecture using a 16nm FinFET process. The structure of the SoC will include 2 x 1.0Ghz Cortex A53, 2 x 1.5Ghz, 2 x 2Ghz and 4 x Cortex A72 running at 2.5Ghz.
The specs will also include support for a maximum of 4GB LPDDR4 1600MhZ RAM, and a Mali T880 GPU.
It’s not likely that we will see Mediatek Helio X30 phones before December with the first batch of Chinese flagships running this advanced SoC likely early next year.
What do you think of Mediatek’s current charge? Are you willing to opt for a Helio powered phone or are you still a Qualcomm fan?
Yeap that’s one big caveat for MTK but their soc does perform really good and has less heating issues than *cough* *cough* Qualcomm
You guys are about as loyal as a stray dog who will go to whoever is offering food. Qualcomm releases one dud SoC and all of a sudden it’s “Qualcomm sucks, Mediatek rules” now watch next year Qualcomm will kill it with it’s next generation SoC’s and you will all be rowing your Qualcomm lifeboats back to reboard the Qualcomm ship.
Excuse me brother I had a horrible experience with Qualcomm before and I will ever comeback using Qualcomm anymore, I have been a loyal Mediatek user since 2011 just so you know
Qualcomm will come with 820 a quad core.Ok it is high clocked .But there were reports about overheating.I think kirin will become big because look at the specs of the 950 really abeast.I think exinos won’t be housed by Chinese OEMS.At least there is only mediatek or intel .Mediatek is good and cheap.I have mkt6752 and it is really powerful and almost every that comes out come with the new mtk 6753 or35.I love mediatek .I hate mediatek because they killed goog phones like the axon or HTC m9.
How did Mediatek kill good phones?
What’s the point of being loyal to a company? Are they benefits to it? I’m all for being loyal to family members, spouses, pets and friends, but companies? Seriously???
Why do people have to be loyal to one company or the other? Why can;t they just be consumers and choose whichever once offers the best value for their money? Why do we have to get caught up in a MTK/SD war? Both companies have their strengths and weaknesses.
I’m not part of the SoC war, I have nothing against Qualcomm or Mediatek. But like I said in my original post, watch how many people here are going to paddle back to the Qualcomm ship if their next generation SoC’s produce killer benchmark numbers. Likewise, watch how fast they turn on Mediatek if these next generation Helio’s don’t live up to expectations.
Qualcomm releases one dud of a SoC and everyone starts boo’ing and throwing tomatoes. Haven’t seen so much love turn to hate since Lance Armstrong.
That’s what a smart consumer does. I’m not sure why you have such a problem with this. When a company releases a bad product they find a better ones. If Company A rebounds with a great product people will go back to it, especially a company with the history of Qualcomm. Brand loyalty died a long time ago in this industry.
Yeah, right *rolls eyes*. The love this year – hate next year behaviours expressed here are about as normal as those dysfunctional couples that break up, then get back together, then break up, get back together, then break up again.
Brand loyalty still exists, even in this industry — just not so much with Chinese brands. Brand loyalty is usually non-existent in the bottom feeder segment of any industry where the price sensitive consumers are out to maximize their dollar period. Take a marketing course and learn about customer acquisition costs and you’ll learn it’s still in a company’s best interest to create/want loyal customers. Even your precious Xiaomi is banking *a lot* on brand loyalty.
I have taken quite a few marketing courses and have an MBA in Marketing. I know more about marketing than most could ever dream of. Xiaomi isn’t included in the industry we are discussing here so stop trying to detract from the actual conversation. Brand loyalty is alive and well for phone manufacturers (just look at Apple and Samsung) but for SoC manufacturers it is all but gone.
You don’t seem to understand. We don’t like/dislike a product just because of it’s brand, nor do we like/dislike a brand only because of it’s product. We just choose what’s best instead of blindly following a losing path.
And how on Earth could you possibly compare the relationship of a consumer and a company with the relationship between two humans? It’s apples and oranges all over again.
Yes, of course brand loyalty exists in the smartphone market, but do you really think it’s such a huge factor in this day and age? Maybe it applies to Apple and Samsung fans, but Xiaomi loyalists aren’t all going to stay loyal to Xiaomi if Xiaomi decides that the Mi5 should cost $750. It’s simple logic.
I am a Xiaomi loyalist and if the Mi5 has the 810 there is little chance of me buying it. In fact Meizu the more I use the MX5 the more Meizu is winning me over and anyone who follows me knows I am a diehard Xiaomi fan. One good phone from another company and one bad phone from them is really all it would take to stop my allegiance to them.
I’m honestly perplexed. What did you expect us to say about the 810? That it’s completely fine that it overheats and throttles itself down, and that Qualcomm is the perfect SoC maker that we should all bow down too?
It’s not just the 810, even the 615 and 808 aren’t doing so good at the moment. We’re definitely not going to like a brand that doesn’t deliver good products, and that doesn’t just apply to Qualcomm.
What are consumers supposed to do? Ignore bad chips just because it comes from a certain brand? I am just as perplexed as Airyl as to what your point is. Your upset that consumers are acting like consumers?
I am a long time Volvo fan, I currently own an S60. In two years I will be in the market for a new car. If the newest S60 is pure and utter crap, you would expect me to still hand over $60,000 of my hard earned money for one just because I love that brand? Your logic is completely mind blowing.
No, I don’t expect you to buy the new S60 if it’s pure crap. However, I also wouldn’t expect you to go online and spread hate for a car you didn’t buy. And not just express hate towards S60, but Volvo in it’s entirety.
My logic may be “mind blowing” but you seem love these back and forth arguments on discus forums. It’s almost as if every news story has a comments section just filled with you bickering with someone over something. Not limited to this site, either.
Says the guys who is starting a fight on a diqus forum….
Actually, I’m already on a Helio X10 chipset and i could say I’m impressed with the growth of MTK in such a short period. I have nothing against SD. I had a oneplus one with an 801. I will still continue to use SD in the future but i will also continue to use MTK cause from my own personal experience with the chipset, it has proven itself to be a solid quality product.
I don’t see what good loyalty does, will you get paid? Will Qualcomm remember you? Last year i got an SD801 phone because from my standpoint there wasn’t any strong enough mediatek processors (bar mt6595), this year however, it’s reversed. I can’t use any Qualcomm processor cause they aint worth it ( damn hotplates).
Yeah, well we are all waiting for Qualcomm`s response, bring on the competition. Better products for the customers.
I’m afraid you’re the only one here that thinks loyalty matters in this. It’s very simple for most of us. Whoever releases the better product gets our vote, we don’t really pick favorites.
I liked Qualcomm back when they made the Snapdragon 801, but now they’re basically producing differently named pieces of shit. The Snapdragon 810 was an absolute failure, the Snapdragon 615 was terrible and the Snapdragon 808 is just a slightly better version of the 810.
MediaTek meanwhile has taken large strides from the old MTK6592 and the improvements are very noticeable. The MTK6752 for example is a fantastic SoC, handily beating the Snapdragon 615 is pretty much everything it does. Then there’s the MTK6732 that redefined what budget smartphones could do. Don’t even get me started on the MTK6795, an SoC that not only matches but also beats the Snapdragon 810 in certain areas.
Ubik, the creators of the Ubik Uno also agree with most of us here. “A MediaTek MT6795 64-bit octa-core processor powers the phone, along with 3GB of RAM. Ubik told us that it passed on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 810 because of the overheating issue, adding that the MediaTek processor is more energy efficient, which suits its purposes better anyway,”.
Until Qualcomm comes with something worth buying, MediaTek, Exynos, Kirin and Intel are better choices for anyone looking to buy a phone. That’s how most of us here see it. We couldn’t possibly care about staying loyal to any SoC maker.