7nm with ARM's new Cortex-A77 CPU/Mali-G77 GPU

Mediatek has made quite a surprising announcement as its new SoC will be the first to use ARM's new SOC design with Cortex-A77 CPU cores and Mali-G77 GPU, as well as an integrated 5G modem.

Down 16.2 percent

MediaTek has reported net profit fell 16.2 percent sequentially to a four quarter low of $110.5 million.

Largest IC design house in Asia title up for grabs

Huawei's IC design subsidiary HiSilicon may take MediaTek’s crown as the largest IC design house in Asia later this year.

Who is hot and who is not

MediaTek has announced its 5G component suppliers and device makers who will be working on radio frequency (RF) technology.

Thanks to Helio P90 and P35 mobile SoCs

MediaTek’s second-quarter revenues are expected to rebound to over $1.95 billion, thanks to mass shipments of its new Helio P90 and P35 mobile SoCs.

Full of AI processing goodness

MediaTek has launched the Helio P90 system-on-chip (SoC) featuring APU 2.0, a new-generation architecture for AI processing boost and performance of 1,127GMACs (2.25TOPs).

5G integrated baseband

MediaTek showcased its first 5G baseband chipset Helio M70 at the China Mobile Global Partner Conference in Guangzhou.

Advanced process nodes for 2019

MediaTek and Qualcomm are moving to fabricate their next-generation mobile SoCs with advanced process nodes which will support more advanced technologies.

Sorry Apple you are on the wrong side of history

Smartphone vendors are expected to further lower prices for new models to stimulate replacement demand in 2019.

Vendors retrench

Shipments of smartphone-use application processors in China are expected to decrease 4.6 percent in the fourth quarter as smartphone vendors have become more conservative on pulling in orders due to lower visibility in demand in the end market.