MediaTek has introduced the Dimensity 8400, marking a major step in the upper-midrange Android chipset category. The device is an important milestone for the smartphone market. After all, it is the first in its class to feature an all-big-core CPU. This design approach was first seen in the flagship Dimensity 9300 last year. At first, this concept was considered overkill and many thought it would bring excessive battery drain. However, MediaTek did a great job optimizing the Dimensity 9300 and subsequent versions. Now, the company brings this innovation to the intermediary range. Taking a ride on the hype, Redmi announced its Redmi Turbo 4 will come with the chipset soon.
Redmi Turbo 4 Will Arrive Next Year Dimensity 8400
Shortly after the announcement, Redmi revealed that its upcoming Redmi Turbo 4 will be the first smartphone to use the new SoC. However, the phone will leverage the Dimensity 8400-Ultra platform—a customized chip version. MediaTek allows the brands to make some tweaks to the chipset, and Xiaomi often tweaks MediaTek processors, branding them with the “Ultra” suffix to emphasize their exclusivity.
The Redmi Turbo 4 promises to come as Redmi’s first launch of 2025. Therefore, the device should be fully official in early January. Ahead of that, the brand will start taking blind pre-reservations today. The new smartphone will arrive in China. Considering Xiaomi’s history with this lineup, we expect it to become either POCO F7 or POCO X7 Pro once it reaches global markets. Regardless of the name Poco picks for this smartphone, it will certainly hit other markets. Thus, it will give consumers a good opportunity to test this powerful mid-range chipset.
Considering its all-big core build, the Dimensity 8400 probably stands as a giant competitor for the Snapdragon 7+ Gen 3. Unlike the Dimensity 9000 series, the 8400 does not bring a Cortex-X core, its performance comes from an all-Cortex-A725 architecture. It has eight cores clocked at up to 3.25 GHz. MediaTek has not broken down the speed per core, but the high clock probably stands for one of the cores.
