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2024.12.23

17:39

MediaTek releases AI chip Dimensity 8400, equipped with Dimensity AI intelligent engine

On December 23, MediaTek released a new AI mobile phone chip Dimensity 8400. The Dimensity 8 series processors are MediaTek's main products in the mid-range mobile phone market. The Dimensity 8400 CPU architecture adopts the Arm full-core architecture design. Compared with the previous generation Dimensity 8300, the single-core performance is improved by 10%, the power consumption is reduced by 35%, and the GPU peak performance is improved by 24% and the power consumption is reduced by 42%. The chip integrates MediaTek's flagship AI processor NPU 880. Li Yanji, general manager of MediaTek's wireless communication business unit, said that the full-core CPU combined with NPU collaborative computing can provide high-speed generative AI task processing capabilities, support the world's mainstream large language models, small language models, and multi-modal large models, and support AI terminals to provide users with AI translation, rewriting, contextual intelligent replies, call summaries, multimedia content generation and other AI innovative experiences; Dimensity 8400 is also equipped with MediaTek's Dimensity AI intelligent body engine, which reconstructs traditional AI applications into more advanced intelligent body AI applications, which can predict user needs and provide personalized intelligent services.

2024.10.30

06:54

MediaTek reports 38% increase in Q3 net profit

Asia Tech Wire (Oct 30) -- Taiwan-based semiconductor company MediaTek Inc. released results on Wednesday, posting revenue of NT$131.81 billion for the third quarter of 2024, up 20% year-on-year.

2024.07.19

06:03

MediaTek says lawsuit filed by Huawei has no significant impact on company

Asia Tech Wire (July 19) -- Taiwan-based fabless semiconductor company MediaTek Inc. said a lawsuit filed by Huawei has no significant impact on it.

2024.06.05

03:06

MediaTek announces joining Arm Total Design

Asia Tech Wire (June 5) -- MediaTek Inc., one of the largest semiconductor manufacturers in Taiwan, announced Tuesday during Computex 2024 that it has joined Arm Total Design.

2022.03.02

04:26

MediaTek unveils three 5G chips with TSMC's 5nm, 6nm technologies

Asian Tech Press (Mar. 2) -- Taiwan's MediaTek Inc. unveiled on Monday three 5G chips using TSMC's 5nm and 6nm technologies.

2022.01.24

06:09

TSMC, MediaTek to hire over 10,000 by 2022 amid global chip shortage

Asian Tech Press (Jan 24) -- TSMC and MediaTek, two major chipmakers, plan to hire more than 10,000 engineers this year to support aggressive business expansion plans and maintain technology leadership amid a trend of global economies pushing local industries.

2021.11.19

09:42

MediaTek announces Dimensity 9000 5G chipset built on TSMC 4nm process

Asian Tech Press (Nov 19) -- MediaTek officially announced the Dimensity 9000, its next-generation flagship 5G SOC, which uses TSMC's 4nm process + Armv9 architecture combination and is equipped with MediaTek's fifth-generation Al processor APU, which is four times more energy efficient than the previous generation.

2021.11.01

04:25

MediaTek may rise WiFi 6 chipset prices in Q1 2022

Asian Tech Press (Nov 1) -- Taiwanese chip supplier MediaTek Inc. will reportedly raise the price of WiFi 6 chipsets again in the first quarter of 2022, a hike of about 10%.

2021.10.27

07:56

MediaTek Q3 revenue of 131.1 billion NTD, net profit of 28.361 billion NTD

Asian Tech Press (OCT 27) -- Taiwanese semiconductor manufacturer MediaTek has announced its financial results for the third quarter of 2021, ending September 30, 2021. The earnings report showed that the company's consolidated revenue for the third quarter was NT$131.074 billion, up 4.3% sequentially and 34.7% year-over-year.

2021.10.21

10:21

MediaTek's new 5G modem chips will use TSMC's 4nm process

Asian Tech Press (OCT 21) -- According to media reports citing industry sources, MediaTek's next-generation 5G modem will be foundry by TSMC using 4-nm process technology.

2021.07.28

09:30

MediaTek's Q3 revenue expects to be between NT$125.7 billion and NT$131.9 bln

According to media reports, semiconductor company MediaTek expects its revenue to be between NT$125.7 billion and NT$131.9 billion in the third quarter of 2021, up 5% sequentially and 29% to 36% year-over-year.

2021.06.30

04:40

Ming-Chi Kuo: MediaTek is a key supplier for Apple's TWS strategy

TF International Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo released the latest research report that Apple recently launched the new TWS Beats Studio Buds using MediaTek's 22nm TWS chip instead of its own 16nm H1 chip. Clearly positioning Android device users as its target customers, which will help Apple increase its TWS market share.

2021.06.08

13:31

MediaTek tops the global smartphone chip market again with a 35% market share

2021.05.19

12:20

MediaTek partners with Tessolve to launch mass-production AIoT hardware and Android software

MediaTek announced a partnership with semiconductor product company Tessolve to accelerate the development of an Edge-AI-enabled intelligent device ecosystem.

2021.05.13

15:30

MediaTek launches the new Dimensity 900 5G SoC

MediaTek released its latest Dimensity 900 5GSoC today, hoping to meet high-end market demand with a more complete 5G product portfolio.

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