MediaTek is on a roll currently and has announced a number of upcoming products for smartphones, IoT devices, and Windows laptops during its Executive Summit. And yesterday, the chipmaker held a brief session on its Chromebook and PC efforts where the MediaTek Kompanio 1200 chipset was showcased.

To recall, the Kompanio 1200 was announced last year with an MT8195 codename. While MTK had also announced that the MT8192 (now called the Kompanio 820) was coming in Q2, there wasn’t any particular date given for the MT8195. It was thus speculated that the chip will be going live in 2021. But that’s not going to be the case as it is now expected to be launched only next year.

The Kompanio 1200 is built on a 6nm process using Cortex-A78 (via XDA). MediaTek has aimed the offering at the premium Chromebook tier, which is not something done by any ARM vendor before. Intel still dominates that segment and ARM-based chipsets have only made it as far as budget Chromebooks to date.

Do note here that when MediaTek mentions premium, it’s talking about Chromebooks that cost over $400. The Kompanio 1200 will still be competing with the entry-level Core i3 from Intel but will aim to undercut it in the battery department – something that ARM-based chips have always been better at than their x86 counterparts.

The chipmaker also teased another future processor that will likely be going against Intel’s flagship i7 series of chips. Based on the company’s naming scheme, it may be called the Kompanio 2000.

As for the MediaTek Kompanio 1200, the launch date is expected to be early 2022, and as such, we could see it happen in CES that takes place in January.

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At the MediaTek summit today, the manufacturer teased a new premium 5G processor that is expected to launch soon. The yet-to-be-named chipset will go against other flagship chipsets when it launches.

MediaTek also revealed key details about the chipset. For starters, it will be a 6nm processor that will be built by TSMC. It will also feature Arm Cortex-A78 cores clocked at 3.0GHz.

This chipset is most likely one of two reported to be coming soon by the Chinese leaker, Digital Chat Station. A little more than a week ago, he had revealed that the Taiwan-based company is developing 5nm and 6nm chipsets with cortex-A78 cores.

In a Weibo post today, the leaker also revealed that the 6nm processor has the model number MT689X and features the same CPU frequency and architecture as the Exynos 1080 which is scheduled to be announced at an event in China later this week.

MediaTek will announce the chipset before the end of the year and we may be lucky to see it appear on a phone this year too, most likely one from a Chinese company.

Alongside the Dimensity 700, MediaTek also announced two new processors designed for Chromebooks. There is the MT8192 which is a 7nm processor for mainstream devices and the 6nm MT8195 that is designed for premium models. Below are the specs for the processors:

MT8192

• 7nm
• 4x Cortex-A76 + 4x Cortex-A55
• APU 2.0 with up to 2.4 TOPS performance
• Mali-G57 five-core GPU
• LPDDR4X
• UFS 2.1 storage
• Support for WQHD displays with 60Hz refresh rates or FHD+ displays with up to 120Hz refresh rates
• Supports up to two displays simultaneously
• 4K HDR video decoding
• Support for PCI-Express Gen 3 and USB 3.2 Gen 1

MT8195

• 6nm TSMC
• 4x Cortex-A78 + 4x Cortex-A55
• APU 3.0 with up to 4 TOPs performance
• Mali-G57 five-core GPU
• Quad-channel 2133MHz LPDDR4X
• Supports up to three displays
• Dolby Vision 7.1 support
• Dedicated Audio Digital Signal Processor (DSP)
• AV1 hardware video accelerator
• 4K HDR video decoding
• Support for PCI-Express Gen 3 and USB 3.2 Gen 1

The MT8192 will appear in Chromebooks in the first quarter of 2021 while the MT9195 which will power premium Chromebooks, smart displays, and tablets will arrive later.

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