We’ve already reported that Taiwan-based MediaTek is currently working on 5G mobile chipset which will be made available next year. Now, MediaTek CEO Cai Lixing has recently revealed in an interview that smartphones powered by the company’s 5G SoC will get launched in the first quarter of next year.
This means that we’ll get the MediaTek 5G-powered smartphones somewhere between January 2020 to March 2020. Cai Lixing has also revealed that the company will be launching a mid-range and low-end 5G chipset to meet market demands.
We recently reported that MediaTek already has a 5G processor with a 5G modem built-in. The 7nm SoC supports multi-mode 5G and features the Helio M70 modem. The semiconductor manufacturer says the unnamed processor has Arm’s Cortex A77 CPU cores and Mali-G77 GPU cores. These are Arm’s latest and most powerful CPU and GPU cores which were announced back in May.
The chipset also has an in-house developed AI processing unit called the APU 3.0. A couple of months ago, it was reported that MediaTek’s 5G chipset will begin shipping to manufacturers this quarter. The report also revealed that manufacturers such as OPPO and Vivo have 5G phones planned for release.
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The MediaTek Helio M70 modem is a multimode chipset with support for 2G/3G/4G/5G-enabled connectivity. It supports 5G radio (NR), along with the standalone (SA) and non-standalone (NSA) network architectures, the sub-6GHz frequency band, high power user equipment (HPUE), and other key 5G technologies.
MediaTek is a a member of the “5G Device Forerunner Initiative” and hopes that its 5G solutions will be powering industry partners to drive forward the development of 5G devices. For the development of 5G technology, the company collaborated with industry leaders including China Mobile, Huawei, Nokia, NTT DOCOMO, and others.
As per the reports, the company is expected to announce its first 5G mobile processor during its upcoming event MediaTek Summit on 26th November. It is also rumored that Redmi is working on a 5G smartphone powered by MediaTek’s chipset which isn’t surprising given that the Xiaomi sub-brand opted for Helio G90T chipset for its Redmi Note 8 Pro.
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