Mediatek has come a long way from being a local Chinese chipmaker. Last year, the company upped its game with its new range of 64-bit chips and managed to take on the US-based Qualcomm to some extent. The company’s advantage has always been its low cost pricing, which has driven the adoption of MTK chips inside low-cost smartphones.

However, when it comes to the high-end segment, Mediatek still has a long way to go. The initial benchmark results of the Helio X20 chip, the world’s first deca-core processor show that its targeted at the upper mid-range market, scoring about 85K on AnTuTu. On the other hand, the top-end Snapdragon 820 chip can score as much as 133K on the same benchmarking test.

So, even this year, Mediatek has not really caught up with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon in the high-end segment. But the company seems to have high hopes for its upcoming Helio X30 chipset, which is said to take on the big guns in the industry next year. Zhu Shangzu, the COO of Mediatek, recent said that the Helio X30 chip is going to be a power house which can take on premium chipmakers like Qualcomm and Samsung.

The company will reportedly continue with its deca-core architecture built on the 16nm process on its upcoming top-end chip. The possible architecture of the Helio X30 could be 2 x 1GHz Cortex A53 + 2 x 1.5GHz Cortex A53 + 2 x 2GHz Cortex A72 and 4 X 2.5GHz Cortex A72 cores. We still don’t know what GPU will be inside the new chip, but we sure hope that it’s powerful enough to take on the GPUs used in Samsung and Qualcomm SoCs. So, let’s hope that company does not continue with its tradition of using powerful CPU’s but crappy GPUs inside its high-end lineup.

We still have no word on the release date of the chip, but considering that Mediatek announced the Helio X20 quite early last year, we may see an announcement of the X30 sometime in the next few months.

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Mediatek reshuffled its lineup earlier this year, by launching a brand new SoC series for the high-end segment called as the Helio series. We have already seen the Helio X10 chipset which powers a lot of mid-range and high-end devices and we will soon meet the Helio X20, the world’s first deca-core smartphone CPU.

But it looks like even before the mass release of the Helio X20 CPU, details about its next generation version, the Helio X30 chip has leaked out. According to the latest report, the Helio X30 will feature a similar cluster design as the X20, but with new CPU cores.

According to this new leak, the Helio X30 chip will feature quad Cortex A72 cores clocked at 2.5GHz, dual Cortex A72 cores clocked at 2.0GHz, dual Cortex A53 Cores clocked at 1.5GHz and dual Cortex A35 Cores clocked at 1.0 GHz. So, end of the day, the upcoming chip is also expected to feature deca-core setup like X20.

This comes at a time when we are increasingly seeing chip makers reduce the cores on their SoCs. For example, Qualcomm has reduced the number of cores from eight-cores in Snapdragon 810 to quad-cores in the latest Snapdragon 820 chip. Even Apple’s A9X chip is just a dual-core SoC. But looks like Mediatek will continue using its special cluster design for its upcoming chips.

We have not yet seen the Helio X20 chip in action yet. Its the world’s first chip with a tri-cluster design and it will be interesting to see how well it performs in real life. Whether the use of three different cores, totaling to 10 cores helps it beat rivals like Exynos is something we will have to wait and watch.

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