While there are folks that won’t pick up a phone powered by a MediaTek processor, they probably own a device powered by a chipset made by the Taiwanese company in their home. MediaTek not only makes processors for phones but also make processors for products like Blu-Ray players, smart TVs, routers, and smart speakers including those from the Amazon Echo line. Today, the semiconductor company unveiled a new processor – the MT5670 – for smart TVs.
The announcement comes just a day before it appears in its first product – the OnePlus TV. Yes, the OnePlus TV which will be unveiled in India tomorrow will be powered by the new MT5670 chipset. Leaked specs of the TV as well as a Google Play Developer console page revealed that the TV will be powered by the processor.
The new chipset, which was unveiled in New York, has four Cortex-A53 cores clocked at 1.8GHz and an ARM Mali-G51 GPU. MediaTek says the new processor will “deliver true studio-quality video”, and automatically adjust sharpness and quality using facial and scene recognition with its AI picture quality (AI PQ) technology. It also supports MiraVision technology and MDDi de-interlace solution for smooth picture quality. Below is a full list of features of the new processor:
- Android TV 9 support
- Worldwide multi-standard analog TV demodulator
- ATSC/DVB-T/DVB-C/ISDB-T demodulators
- UHD@60Hz direct drive
- 3D graphic support OpenGL ES 1.1/2.0/3.1/3.2
- A transport de-multiplexer
- A multi-standard video decoder (including VP9)
- Rich format audio codec
- H.264 encoder
- HDMI 2.0 receiver with 3D support
MediaTek adds that the MT5670 will be available globally in smart TVs launching this month. So there is a possibility we may see it in another product other than the OnePlus TV later this month.
The MediaTek MT5670 is less powerful than Amlogic’s new T972 processor which powers Xiaomi’s new Mi Full Screen TV Pro. The 12nm Amlogic processor has the more powerful and efficient Cortex-A55 cores (quad) clocked at 1.9GHz as against, the MT5670’s Cortex-A53 cores. However, the Amlogic chipset has the entry-level Mali-G31 GPU while the MediaTek chipset has the mid-range Mali-G51 GPU.
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