Leading Taiwanese integrated circuit designer MediaTek Inc. has launched two 5G smartphone chips using advanced technologies from contract chipmaker Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC).
In a statement Tuesday, MediaTek said the two new chips — the Dimensity 8100 and Dimensity 8000 system-on-chips (SoCs) — use TSMC’s 5 nanometer process to bring “flagship level technology” to premium 5G smartphone connectivity, displays, gaming, multimedia and imaging features.
Smartphones powered by the two chips, which borrow the technology of the company’s top-shelf Dimensity 9000 platform, could hit the market in the first to second quarter of this year, the company said.
In addition to TSMC’s 5nm process, the Dimensity 8100 integrates four premium Arm Cortex-A78 cores with speeds reaching 2.85GHz, while the Dimensity 8000 has four Cortex-A78 cores operating at up to 2.75GHz, MediaTek said.
The company said, meanwhile, that it has also introduced the Dimensity 1300 platform, which uses TSMC’s 6nm process, to its 5G family.
That platform integrates an octa-core CPU with an ultra-core Arm Cortex-A78 clocked up to 3GHz, three Arm Cortex-A78 super cores and four Arm Cortex-A55 efficiency cores, along with an Arm Mali-G77 GPU and MediaTek APU 3.0 to support the latest AI capabilities, MediaTek said.
Amid a global chip boom, MediaTek posted record net profit of NT$111.87 billion (US$4 billion) in 2021, up 170 percent from a year earlier, and earnings per share of NT$70.56.
Its 2021 consolidated sales of NT$493.42 billion also set a company record and were up 53.2 percent from a year earlier due to strong demand for 5G applications worldwide.
MediaTek’s latest monthly consolidated sales smashed the company record for January, rising 23.12 percent from January 2021 to NT$43.5 billion.
At an investor conference held in late January, MediaTek forecast its sales will grow more than 20 percent in 2022 from a year earlier, and the compound annual growth rate (CAGR) for sales over the next three years will reach 15 percent.
Source: Focus Taiwan News Channel