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Beidou haven’t launched a new phone in to their flagship Little Pepper range for some time, so let’s start things rolling with leaked renders and purported specification of the Beidou Little Pepper 3.

Mediatek have announced that the first lot of 8-core MTK6592 processors will be available from November.

The Chinese 8-core revolution is nearly upon us so here are the top 5 8-core Mediaek Chinese phones we are most excited to see launch!

Electronics maker Newman have announced that they will launch not 1, not 2 but 3 8-core Android smarpthones based on Mediatek’s MT6592 Octa-core processor.

Most of us are concentrating on the UMi Cross launch, however there will also be an updated UMi X2S going on sale soon with new processor and added feature.

THL are currently leading the Chinese phone race with rival Zopo to launch the world’s first 8-core Mediatek MT6592 phone, who is going to be first?

It’s that time of year again, the time of year that Chinese phone makers battle it out to be first sporting the latest Mediatek processor! Here is Zopo’s entrant with an 8-core Mediatek MT6592 chip!

Meidatek have a number of new processors ready to take the Chinese phone industry by storm and one mystery SoC is already in testing as seen here in leaked Antutu results.

Allwinner held a small media event yesterday where they announced their plans for the rest of this year and in to 2015.

On our visit to THL last month we were lucky enough to see the THL Monkey King 2 in the flesh, at that time 4G LTE was mentioned but it now appears an 8-core MTK6592 chip will be used instead.

After selling out their first batch Samsung Exynos equipped 8-core phones, Meizu will begin Mx3 sales again from October 10th.

MediaTek and ARM have signed a deal allowing the Taiwanese chip maker to use ARM’s Cortex A50 processors and ARM Mali Graphics chips.

Taiwanese chip maker Mediatek, who have risen from the ranks of cheap knock-off phones to high end devices from Xiaomi, Sony and others, posted their Q3 earnings today showing an impressive 17% increase in sales.

We’ve already seen next generation phones from Meizu, Oppo and Xiaomi, but the year still has some surprises left and we cannot wait to see what Chinese phone makers Zopo, THL, Xiaocai, Nubia and Jiayu have in store for us!

Mediatek must have impressed someone at Samsung, as reports are coming in that the Korean Android giant is planning to adopt the latest 8-core SoC the Taiwanese company.

Mlais have leaked another photo of a PCB fitted with 8-core MT6592 processor along with a few details about it’s upcoming phone models.

With 4G LTE ready to go mainstream in China, Chinese phone makers need a low-cost 4G LTE solution and Mediatek have one with the MTK6290.

Xiaocai have been showing off photos and specification details of their 8-core MT6592 Android phone and it looks pretty special!

We’ve seen some stunning phone launch over the past few months and many of you have decided what you plan to buy, so which Chinese phone are you buying next and why?

GooPad have somehow secured a supply chain for the 8-core Samsung Exynos Octa 5410 processor to build their own GooPad N8, Galaxy Tab 3 alternative.