MediaTek is quickly establishing itself as one of the
most popular chipset vendors but it has only been
associated with value-for-money devices. What it's
bringing to CES will help it break away from that image
and even jump on the wearables bandwagon.
One of the key components is the MT6290 modem. Built
on a 28nm process, the modem supports LTE Cat. 4,
meaning it can achieve downlink speeds of up to
150Mbps. This chipset is compatible with MediaTek's
current application processors, so integrating it into new
products should be easy.
The MT8135 will also be at the trade show – a
big.LITTLE processor with two Cortex-A7s and two
Cortex-A15s and a PowerVR Series 6 GPU (same
generation as the iPhone 5s GPU). This chipset was
announced back in July, so we hope to see actual
devices with it at CES. The octa-core MediaTek MT6592
will be at the stands too.
Then there's the smallest chipset in the world (according
to MediaTek), which will be used for wearables (a market
set to explode in 2014). Smart TVs, another market
gaining popularity, will be catered to by a chipset
capable of decoding UHD HEVC-encoded video at 60fps.
There will be products for home automation, indoor
positioning an Qi wireless charging too.
With demand for NVIDIA Tegra chipsets waning,
Samsung's 5th gen Exynos struggling and TI out of the
game, MediaTek has a golden opportunity to become the
other big player on the market (other than Qualcomm
that is, which is making big promises too).
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