MediaTek has been in the processor game for quite a long time, and now they’re finally seeing very positive results. Unlike a few years ago where nobody had any idea what a MediaTek was, these days MediaTek is prevalent in many devices from large companies like Sony all the way to smaller companies like Elephone.
This is reflected in an interview with MediaTek’s international corporate sales General Manager Finbarr Moynihan, where he claims that MediaTek had successfully claimed 30% of the market by the end of 2015, which should extend to 35-40% by the end of the year.
This is mainly thanks to the success of MediaTek’s processors in the Chinese, Indian and Southeast Asian markets where MediaTek’s sales have reached new heights. The the United States however things are less positive with MTK having less than 5% market share.
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Finbarr then states that the company has had problems trying to balance performance with power consumption, claiming that getting the best balance between the two is and has been a problem in the past, and continues to be till this day.
Aside from that, Finbarr also talks about MediaTek’s ten-core processors, strongly stressing that the focus isn’t on having ten processors powering the device at the same time but instead to use their Tri-Cluster architecture design to adjust to the users requirements at the time, reducing power consumption.
What do you think about MediaTek? Do you like their processors, or do you hate them? Tell us down in the comments below.
Read. That is completely interview.
I read it yesterday a little before I reed the Meizu Pro 6 review at Anandteach.
Mediate 6735 processor in Meizu M2 is fine, better than Qualcomm 210, 410 chipsets. No heating, no hanging. I am not a fan. I use, feel. Soccer whole day, no prob.
That was a great budget quad core SoC. Wish they would have kept that and the 6752 around longer
6732 is my favourite ever mtk soc, the most balanced they every made in the entry level sector, probably this and 6752 where so good that they risked to kill their helio lineup, which had x10 at that time (6752 wasn’t far from this one), so they limited their production and update support and released two lesser specced versions (6735 and 6753) which had far more gap with the x10.
It seems mediatek’s hobby is to cut down gpu power nowadays, as if they were giving too much on their products. mt6580 has a weaker gpu compared to the 2 and a half years old (or maybe three) mt6582, 6750 has even weaker gpu than 6753 (which had way lesser gpu power than 6752), 6737 is even weaker than 6735, they will ship them without gpu in the next generation!
Yeah, the 6732 and 6752 were excellent. My m2 note has the 6753, which is fine for my needs, but I honestly don’t see it as much of a step up from the 6732, and way behind the 6752. Even the current p10, while better on paper, seems to be a step behind the old 6752.
This is why i don’t understand how mediatek CEOs thinking. They purposely killed their good product SOC lines and focus on the shitty SOC that has weaker spec on everything. Maybe the only good thing is they can sell at cheaper price.
When mediatek released Helio X10, i thought “wow, finally we got another contender to fight other flagship SOCs” but after sometime, this soc just gone kaput, no other manufacturers using but xiaomi, instead they are busy using the shitty mediatek 6735 / 6753.
How to compete with the big guys like Qualcomm, Kirin, Exynos if mediatek still like that ?
Doing cheap is good but since other competitor now also start to sell at lower price margin market (you can see that even smartphone with qualcomm SD650 and SD652 already selling at dirt cheap pricing). I think mediatek are digging their own grave. They need to think big out of the box, provide a BETTER SOC with cheaper price to fight those big guys.
2015 was a stellar year for mediatek, before that, few of us would have considered a mediatek SoC a viable option in the mid range to budget flagship segment. It is hard not to see 2016 as something of a step backwards for them though. While the x20/25 is a very capable upper midrange processor, the helio p10, 6737, and 6580 don’t really impress. Qualcomm has not made it easy for them either with the SD 650/652 and even the 625 all offering good performance for a fairly cheap price. Hoping that 2017 will find mediatek challenging Qualcomm more effectively than this year
The 6580 is a work of fart. Nothing more to be said about it. Mediatek should leave that segment of the Market to Spreadtrum or something, there’s no money in it anyway, and focus on super-mid like they used to say.
It’s completely ridiculous. My 6752 Elephone P7000, released in June 2015 scores better on Antutu than this year’s “flagship” P9000 or any device with Helio P10 really (Ulefone Future etc.)
It is sad. I had high hopes for the p10, and while it is far from a bad chipset, it is a bit underwhelming.
Seriously though, the 6752 in my phone is a total beast. It plays Modern Combat 5 for hours on end with an average framerate of 30-40FPS, dropping to 25FPS in very polygon-intensive scenes but never below that. All this at best quality settings, mind you. It does get very hot (up to 42-45 degrees Celsius), but it’s nothing the device can’t handle considering it’s still alive after all this abuse.
The X20 is shaping up to be the 6752’s spiritual successor with its Antutu score of 85-90.000 and great energy efficiency. Still, I think that manufacturers are using chipsets such as the 6753 or the P10 because they are cheap and they think consumers won’t care.
There’s just too many $100-150 devices right now that are not at all different from one another and I think this is a direct consequence of the ubiquity of these chipsets. This is not sustainable. As a sidenote, I see no good devices at the $230-270 range aimed at the European market (Xiaomi doesn’t count because of lack of mainstream European bands such as B20) so, considering Europe is not India in terms of purchasing power, I think that the first company to bring out a no-nonsense device at that price range may have a winner in its hands.
Cant agree more. The 6752 and 6732 were the best SOCs by Mediatek. After that they just degraded their SOCs and GPUs in the successor.
what am i supposed to do with this link ?
Read. That is completely interview.
I read it yesterday a little before I reed the Meizu Pro 6 review at Anandteach.