Last week I went to the MediaTek Summit in Sonoma California, and not only did this
event happen in a fancy as heck hotel, but we also got to see all the news about the
new MediaTek Dimensity 9200 Chipset which will be powering tons of smartphones in the coming year.
Who is MediaTek? Well, if you’ve watched Hak5 way back in the day - this is a brand that us
hackers like. The chipsets are found inside some of our favorite wifi adapters and they’re pretty
hacker friendly. I remember searching up which chipsets are in wifi adapters to figure out
which ones will have the best compatibility with old Linux distros. It was a thing that we did.
Nowadays, I’m more familiar with MediaTek as a major chipset for smartphones and connected
devices like IoT smarthome products, but they do power a tooooon of products - including a
lot of connected devices you probably already have in your home, and some you’ll probably be
looking at purchasing next year… I’m looking at you PS VR2 that we got to see a teaser of
at the Summit but weren’t supposed to touch (I absolutely did not touch it).
With MediaTek found all over the place, I’m of course concerns about things like supply chain
attacks - so I straight up asked exec Vince Hu about this very subject - here’s his answer.
The Dimensity 9200 is the newest in the smartphone lineup, packing lots of
goods into a 4 nanometer chipset to rival competitors such as Qualcomms Snapdragon,
Apple’s A16 Bionic, and Google’s Tensor.
This thing has 8 cores - 4 of which are performance cores for higher power usage,
and 4 efficiency cores for those times that you’re just checking
your email. This should also help with power consumption and heat over it’s predecessor.
I got to see some examples of mobile ray tracing - yeah babes, you know how I’m obsessed with this on
my gaming PC? That’s some sexy gaming from the 11 Core GPU - it’s called the Immortalis G715.
My favorite demo at the Summit was showing off Wifi 7 speeds between a
couple of routers that have so many antennas, it reminds me of a Hak5
pineapple. Just look at these speeds between these two routers. Good lord.
So Wifi 7 sounds pretty sweet because it’ll improve range
and speeds. Like 6.5 gigabits per second.
Bluetooth 5.3 support gives you better audio streaming to your
Bluetooth headphones or other devices as well. mmWave and Sub 6 are also supported.
Smartphones including the Dimensity 9200 should see better photography thanks to
AI tech from a dedicated hardware ISP which can detect parts of a photo - like a person,
the sky, mountains in the background, whatever, and differentiate between them
so your subject is better in focus. Night shots should be better as well
Lastly, this is the first chipset announced that’ll include a lot
of sweet tech built into it for smartphones,
even a few things I didn’t really cover in this quick hitter like it’ll have UFS4.0 storage.
I’m excited! I’m loving seeing a heavy hitter coming out from MediaTek to create
more competition in the flagship smartphone market. If you have interest in smartphones
from brands like Xiaomi, Vivo, Asus, Oppo, and so on, MediaTek works with these manus,
so we’ll be seeing this chipset in some of their upcoming devices. We’ll probably start seeing some
announcements from their partners during CES in January.. which - I’m planning to be there!
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