MediaTek plans to ship 200 million smartphone chipsets this year, dedicated tablet CPU coming in Q3
No wonder Qualcomm’s trying hard to get a foothold in China, and it’s using every advantage it can think of in the process. All of the ‘big guys’ in the mobile chipset space are surely a bit uneasy looking East and seeing MediaTek’s incredible rise. Which isn’t going to slow down, by the way, since [...]
Microsoft and Qualcomm working on Windows Phone 8 reference design for cheap handsets
We already have affordable Windows Phone 8 devices – the Nokia Lumia 620 and the Huawei Ascend W1 – but it looks like Microsoft wants to push things further, and introduce even cheaper handsets. According to Taiwanese website DigiTimes, Microsoft, Qualcomm and other chipset suppliers are collaborating to develop a Windows Phone 8 reference design [...]
MediaTek quad-core chips coming in Q4. Smartphones using them to be out in Q1 2013
After unveiling a series of cheap single-core and dual-core SoCs, Taiwan’s MediaTek is now getting ready to produce quad-core chips. China Times reports that MediaTek plans to start mass-producing its own quad-core chips in the fourth quarter of the year. The new chips should use 28nm technology, just like Qualcomm’s Snapdragon S4. Smartphones based on [...]
MediaTek intros Cool 3D suite for its chipsets. $200 3D smartphones on the way?
Taiwan-based MediaTek has officially announced Cool 3D, which is presented as “the world’s most complete 3D suite of solutions for smartphone platforms.” The new suite supports 3D displays and 3D cameras, plus real-time 2D-to-3D conversion. MediaTek proudly touts two distinguished features that are included in Cool 3D: 3D Cool Shot (which supports cost-effective 5MP dual-lens [...]
MediaTek will integrate Twitter into its chipset middleware
MediaTek has just announced a partnership with Twitter, that will see the social network’s features integrated into MediaTek’s MRE middleware for its ‘smart-feature phone’ platform. In other words, MediaTek is trying to make feature phones (sometimes referred to as ‘dumb phones’) as smart as possible. And it’s trying to make this change as easy as [...]
First Chinese phones to use MediaTek’s MT6575 chip show up
Last week we told you about MediaTek’s upcoming MT6575 chipset. Hiding behind that unimpressive name is a 1 GHz ARM Cortex A9-based processor, helped by a PowerVR SGX5 graphics processor, with hot-swappable dual-SIM support thrown in for good measure. Add in MediaTek’s signature low pricing on chips, and you get what will probably power millions [...]
MediaTek launches entry-level smartphone platform- Meet the MT6575
MediaTek might seem like a rather obscure company compared to Texas Instruments or Qualcomm, but do not be fooled by that. They have been selling millions of chips for entry-level mobile device makers in both China and India. Their latest chip, the MT6575 is here to bring high-end performance to low and mid-tier Android smartphones. [...]
MediaTek joins the Open Handset Alliance. An onslaught of cheap Android smartphones to follow?
MediaTek is one of the biggest mobile chipset suppliers to Chinese phone manufacturers. MediaTek’s System-On-a-Chip (SoC) solutions power some of the world’s cheapest phones, which have so far been primarily sold in Mainland China. However, slowly, but surely, MediaTek is making inroads into the Western markets. First, in November of last year, they signed a [...]
New Mediatek chip may bring Android handset prices to $100 level within a year
According to Chinese business daily Commercial Times, Taiwanese chip maker Mediatek, has finished the development of a 3G system on chip for Android devices. Mediatek already started shipping samples of the chip to customers, and expects to start volume production in Q4, this year. The new dedicated Mediatek chip, with an integrated 3G baseband and application processor, [...]
