During its regular earnings call with investors recently, MediaTek had revealed its plans for later this year. A highlighting announcement during this conference was the arrival of the company’s latest 5G chipset that will be based on the 4nm process from TSMC.
The Taiwanese chip maker will be launching the next generation SoC as early as the first quarter of next year with production starting by the end of this year. The news arrives from Bryan Ma, Vice President at IDC, a known research agency. The official believes that the upcoming chipset will be shipped with smartphones that are priced over 4,000 Yuan (roughly 615 US Dollars).
As of right now, the Dimensity 1200 processor is the company’s top end chipset, which was also built by the world’s largest contract chipmaker as well. This chip was based on the 6nm EUV process technology and is found in handsets that house this chip as a more affordable alternative to the Snapdragon 888 SoC from Qualcomm. The latter is based on the 5nm process from Samsung.
Recent rumors have suggested that the American semiconductor giant will be launching its next generation Snapdragon 895 SoC in early December 2021, with the chip also being based on the 4nm process. So, the upcoming 4nm MediaTek Dimensity processor and Snapdragon 895 could possibly compete to be the world’s first 4nm processor in the world. This is all the information we have to go on for now, so stay tuned for more updates.
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