In the race for the top flagship chipset in the market, MediaTek was left behind this year. Processors from Samsung and Qualcomm have really taken performance to a whole new level, which is why 2017 is going to be a very important year for the Taiwanese chipmaker. However, it looks like things haven’t started too well for its flagship chipset, the Helio X30, which was just announced a few weeks back.

According to a well-known tech personality on Weibo, Helio X30’s market reaction hasn’t been very positive so far. In fact, he revealed that the three major smartphone companies in China namely, Huawei, OPPO, and Vivo are not going to use this chipset in 2017. Huawei’s lack of interest in Helio X30 would be understandable, given its increased focus on its own Kirin chipsets, but it’s said that both Vivo and OPPO (the two fast-growing smartphone companies in China today) are not interested in the chip, which is surprising. Even Taiwan’s own HTC isn’t willing to go with this top MediaTek chip. So, MediaTek may eventually have to rely on companies like Xiaomi and Meizu to ship a decent amount of Helio X30 processors. It’s worth noting that an insider has already revealed that Meizu’s flagship of 2017 would be powered by this MTK flagship processor.

On paper, the Helio X30 looks like a powerful chipset. First of all, it is built using the super efficient and the latest 10nm manufacturing node, joining the likes of other top flagship processors of 2017. Thanks to its two Cortex A73 cores for top-end performance, MediaTek claims that the performance increases by up to 43% as compared to its predecessors. Further, the power consumption reduces by as much as 53%.

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It looks like Helio X30’s start hasn’t been pretty, with this news and then the recent alleged benchmark of the chipset showing sub-standard scores. While it’s too early to say whether Helio X30 will be successful, what I would like to see is the true performance of the deca-core architecture unleashed. MTK really needs its top flagship processors to perform well in 2017.

What do you think?

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A few minutes back, we reported about the upcoming Helio P35 chipset and its specs and the same source has also revealed details about the upcoming Snapdragon 835 chipset as well as Snapdragon 660 processor.

The user says that Snapdragon 835 will bring back octa-core architecture instead of quad-core architecture used by the previous generation Snapdragon 821. The cores are still Kryo, so there will be 4 x Kryo  @ 3GHz and 4 x Kryo @ 2.4GHz. Other rumored features of the 835 include Adreno 540 GPU, 4K display support, UFS 2.1 standard for storage, dual camera support and LPDDR4x four channel memory support.

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While what you read above are just rumored specs of the Snapdragon 835, Qualcomm today at an event in Shenzhen, China officially announced that its next generation Snapdragon series chipsets will come with the super fast and world’s first Gigabit-class X16 LTE modem. It promises up to 10x faster speeds as compared to first generation 4G LTE devices.

Coming back to the rumors, it is said that the next generation Snapdragon 660 chipset will feature an octa-core design (4 x Cortex A73 + 4 x Cortex A53) manufactured on a 14nm manufacturing node with Adreno 512 and 2K display support.

Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 is said to debut in the second quarter of 2017, while the Snapdragon 660 phones should only be available by the third quarter of next year.

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