Taiwanese semiconductor company MediaTek today held a press conference where it announced its financial results for the first half of 2019. As reported, the company racking a 16.8% monthly increase in revenue while on a yearly basis, its revenue grew by 1.8%. While the results show the company is back to winning ways, what actually grabbed our attention is the announcement about the company’s first 5G chipset.
MediaTek’s CEO Cai Lixing announced that the company will roll out samples of its 5G SoC bearing the Helio M70 modem in Q3 2019. While they will begin mass-producing the chipset in Q1 2020, meaning by this time next year, we might have seen smartphones powered by MediaTek’s 5G SoC.
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MediaTek had earlier released details of its 5G modem but the name of the chipset it is built on is yet to be released. The chipset is said to have ARM architecture with Cortex-A77 CPU and Mali-G77 CPU. The baseband will support the Sub-6 GHz frequency and would integrate a third-generation AI processing engine. The chipset will also have camera support of up to 80 MP and 4K 60fps video recording. OPPO and Vivo are among OEMs that were announced to have partnered MediaTek for its 5G chipset. So expect the BBK subsidiaries to be among the first to launch 5G phones with MediaTek’s 5G modem and expectedly, cheaper price tags.
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