Earlier this year, Taiwanese chip MediaTek announced its flagship smart TV-centric chipset, dubbed the S900 its highlighting feature is the capability to decode 8K video. According to a fresh press release, the mass production of the chip has now begun at the TSMC foundries who also happens to be the contract manufacturer for companies like Apple, Qualcomm and Nvidia.
The MediaTek S900 is manufactured using 12 nm FinFET process and it consists of a multi-core CPU comprising of ARM Cortex-A73 cores, and Mali-G52 GPU that supports 8K video decoding, HDR10+ and external graphics which enable customers (OEMs in this case) to customize their products. In terms of I/O support, the chipset supports HDMI 2.1A, which offers a maximum bandwidth of 48Gps — enough to deliver HDR10+ content, as well as 4K videos running at 120Hz or 8K videos at 60Hz.
The MediaTek S900 also supports AI PQ, short for Artificial Intelligence Picture Quality. With the combination of MediaTek’s proprietary MiraVision-Pro and AI PQ, the S900 supports AI scene recognition, enabling S900-powered TVs to improve picture quality by optimizing colour saturation, brightness, sharpness, dynamic motion compensation and picture noise, even for native 8K output.
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MediaTek has already provided a NeuroPilot software development kit (SDK) for the chipset which allows developers to build apps for the platform. TVs powered by this chipset, when equipped with other necessary components can act as a hub for controlling smart home or IoT devices via voice and gesture controls.
Commercially available smart TVs featuring this chipset are expected to launch in early 2020 which is when we will be able to see what the MediaTek S900 brings to the table, in terms of real-world performance.
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