After reports that Lenovo, HTC and Xiaomi had dropped the idea of using the Helio X20 in phones because of overheating problems, Mediatek have spoken back.
If rumours of Mediatek’s Helio X20 overheating caused a case of deja vu for you yesterday, then prepare to get hit with another deja vu moment.
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Just as Qualcomm did before them, Mediatek have also taken to social media in an attempt to quash rumours and state that there is not overheating issues with their 10 core processor.
We can’t be sure if this is true, and if Mediatek are just hoping they can fix overheating problems before the chipset launches in phones later this month.
The Mediatek Helio X20 is a 10 core chipset with a tri-cluster design allowing the SoC to change gears depending on the tasks its asked to perform.
Anyone know if the snapdragon also is overheating ? Qualcomm SoC normally also haveing this overheat problem
I wouldn’t say “normally”: the sd801 and 805 are some of the best socs ever made even today, and they do not “over” heat, they just heat up like a normal chip would do. The problem came this year, on the 64bit generation, due to the fact they were forced to give up on their usual architecture, but now they have a new architecture so it should be less problematic. But, so far, we know nothing about how 2016 chips but some antutu scores, so we must wait and see real life performance
The 810 and 615 both had issues with overheating but Qualcomm doesn’t exactly have a history with it. High performance chips will heat up with usage, but that is not the same as we are talking about here.