Sinking as Mediatek grows  

Last week’s Qualcomm results confirmed what Wall Street had suspected for a while – Qualcomm is in trouble.

Richtek acquisition was a good deal

MediaTek posted record quarterly results yesterday thanks partly to its purchase of analogue IC specialist Richtek Technology.

Commoditised Android Wear coming soon

Remember Mlais? The Hong Kong smartphone startup is back with its first Android Wear watch, based on MediaTek’s new MT2601 platform. 

Review: MTK Helio X10 on a budget

Xiaomi’s second-generation Redmi Note was released a couple of months ago, and it started shipping just weeks ago, but you still can’t buy it directly if you happen to live in the west. Are Europeans and Americans missing out? Yep, they surely are. 

Review: A lot of quality for peanuts

Meizu is been one of the most popular phone manufactures in China, and the company has introduced three new phones in the last few months. The one that caught our eye was the Meizu M2 Note, the successor to the M1 Note phablet.

Round, all-metal, 400mAh battery

The Elephone ELE smartwatch has been listed, and as we suspected it is based on MediaTek’s MT2601 system-on-chip (SoC). 

Things got delayed for two years 

A year ago Fudzilla revealed that Samsung has been building a mobile GPU. We are still as puzzled about it now as we were then,  but there are more confirmations that they should finish it in the 2017 – 2018 timeframe.

Spec revealed by GFXBench 3.1

Mainstream phones powered with the SoC from MediaTek are headed for an upgrade. The Helio P10 MT6755 has found its way to the GFXBench 3.1 benchmark which has revealed some interesting statistics.

Expands eco-system

MediaTek is quietly building an ecosystem to drive IoT strategy to push its System on Chip shipments across multiple devices.

40 million heading to Western Europe

MediaTek is winning market share in all territories as the outfit moves to challenge Qualcomm. .