Taipei, Nov. 7 (CNA) MediaTek Inc., a Taiwanese smartphone IC designer, has unveiled its latest flagship Dimensity 9300 with an “All Big Core design” that it said will make generative AI processing, gaming, and video capture using a smartphone more efficient.
In a statement released Monday, MediaTek said the first smartphone models using the Dimensity 9300 chipset are scheduled to hit the market by the end of this year.
According to MediaTek, the Big Core Design is built on contract chipmaker Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.’s (TSMC) third-generation 4nm process with four Arm Cortex-X4 cores at operating speeds of up to 3.25GHz, and four Cortex-A720 cores at operating speeds of up to 2.0GHz to maximize performance.
The Dimensity 9300 chipset offers an almost 46 percent increase in graphics process unit (GPU) performance than its predecessor, the Dimensity 9200 chipset, at the same level of power consumption, the company said.
At the same time, the Dimensity 9300 chipset provides a 40 percent reduction in GPU power consumption at the same level of performance as the Dimensity 9200 chipset, it said.
To support AI applications, MediaTek said it has integrated a next-generation APU (accelerated processing unit) 790 AI processor into the Dimensity 9300, a design that will significantly improve generative AI performance and energy efficiency for faster and more secure edge computing.
The APU 790 doubles integer (whole number) and floating-point (including decimals) operations performance and cuts power consumption by 45 percent, while the processing speed of the APU 790 is eight times faster than the previous generation.
“The Dimensity 9300 is MediaTek’s most powerful flagship chip yet, bringing a huge boost in raw computing power to flagship smartphones with our groundbreaking All Big Core design,” MediaTek President Joe Chen (陳冠州) said in the statement.
“This unique architecture, combined with our upgraded on-chip AI Processing Unit, will usher in a new era of generative AI applications as developers push the limits with edge AI and hybrid AI computing capabilities,” Chen said.
In addition to the use of AI technologies in its smartphone chip design, MediaTek announced in May a partnership with U.S.-based AI chip designer Nvidia Corp. to develop technology for automotive in-vehicle applications.
The products produced through the partnership are expected to be launched in 2025, according to MediaTek, which said drivers will be able to interact with the high-end automotive System on a Chip (SoC) developed through the partnership using AI, as well as stream games or videos.
