The MediaTek Dimensity 9000 chip will cost nearly twice its predecessor – the MediaTek Dimensity 1200 – and devices equipped with it will hence likely be pricier than usual. However, it will still be cheaper than Qualcomm’s upcoming Snapdragon 8 Gen1 processor, expected to be announced this week during Tech Summit.
The info comes from industry insider Digital Chat Station who has also revealed that the Dimensity 9000 will begin shipping from Q1 2022. It will be joined by the Dimensity 7000 upper-mid-range chip not long after, which is expected to put an end to the dominance of the Snapdragon 870 chip in the market.
The Dimensity 9000 chip will be MediaTek’s new flagship when it goes live and will be superseding the Dimensity 1200 from this year. It will be built on the 4nm fabrication process, which should improve performance while also being more power-efficient. The new sub-6GHz 5G chipset is the first in the smartphone world to use a Cortex-X2 core clocked at up to 3.05Ghz and is the world’s-first smartphone chip to include Bluetooth 5.3.
There’s a 1+3+4 setup for the cores, with a single Cortex-X2 “ultra core” joined by a cluster of 3X Cortex-A710 “super cores” clocked at up to 2.85Ghz. The two are complemented by a cluster of 4 efficiency Cortex A510 cores clocked at 1.8Ghz. The chipset supports LPDDR5x RAM speeds of up to 7500Mbps and has 14MB of cache.
The Dimensity 9000 is expected to arrive on the market in February and the upcoming Redmi K50 series may be one of the first to feature it.
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