It comes as no surprise that Mediatek – home to china – has become a very large player in the Smartphone market. 100’s, if not 1000’s of devices are designed with Mediatek chips every year, albeit majority of the devices remain in the Asian market. But what does the future hold?
Mediatek have year-on-year nearly doubled the processing power of their chips. When I bought my MTK6577 (dual core) just over a year ago (phone was designed nearly 2 years ago), it scored no more than 7700 on Antutu Benchmarks. Latest revisions of MT6589 chips are scoring well and highly among the big house players in the western world (17000-23000 based on Antutu’s Benchmarks), without the need for Benchmark faking, *cough* Samsung *cough*.
With recent announcements for Mediatek’s MT6592 8-core processor, one can only imagine the storm they will cause in the technology world. The MT6592 is a self-acclaimed “first true 8-Core,” mobile processor. Considering each revision of Mediatek’s chips since 6577 have almost doubled the benchmarks of phone’s which use the latest chip, especially the processor benchmarks, I am going to go ahead and make the assumption that Mediatek shall surpass the processing power of other big players in the chip market (Qualcomm). MT6592 is rumoured to support 4G LTE as well.
Mediatek has been trying to acquire more feature phone releases with technology giants such as Microsoft’s Nokia phones. Yet, we have still yet to see them enter common use in western market. That could take a while, but I have no doubt in my mind that Mediatek’s rapid rate of technology advancement will cause a certain swift response from other device and processor manufacturers.
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