Something to await forwards to: Mediatek chipsets are not usually a side on the flagship conversation, with stories mostly focused on announcements from Qualcomm, Samsung, and until recently, Huawei. However, that's irresolute with the Taiwanese visitor at present committed to compete at the high-end with its Dimensity mobile platform.

With over 100 1000000 MediaTek-powered phones sold in the terminal quarter, the company recently surpassed Qualcomm as the globe'south biggest mobile fleck vendor in terms of market place share. Nigh of those chips are used on upkeep and mid-range devices, with Qualcomm holding on to the crown as the largest 5G chipset vendor.

Last year, MediaTek saw an opportunity to launch a loftier-end mobile platform that integrated 5G connectivity, seeing as Qualcomm was more focused on 5G adoption at low-end and mid-range price points. That platform was the Dimensity yard+, which sported enough CPU and GPU performance to power mid-range and high-end smartphones from Oppo, Vivo, Xiaomi, Honor, and Realme.

Today, MediaTek appear a pair of new Dimensity chipsets, the Dimensity 1200 and the Dimensity 1100. They are built using TSMC's advanced 6nm process node, and so they are slightly more than efficient than the Dimensity 1000 and chiliad+, which were built using a 7nm process.

The architecture has changed to a tri-cluster comprised of a high-performance Arm Cortex-A78 core running at upwardly to 3 GHz (or 2.6 GHz for the Dimensity 1100), three Cortex-A78 cores running at upwards to 2.6 GHz, and four depression-ability Cortex-A55 cores running at up to 2 GHz. The GPU on both chipsets is the Arm Mali-G77, which is a strange choice as it's essentially the same nine-core GPU institute in last year'due south Dimensity 1000+. At least the CPU performance should exist 20 percent higher with a 25 percent lower power consumption.

Both Dimensity chipsets support high refresh charge per unit displays of up to 168 Hz at 1080p for the Dimensity 1200 and 144 Hz for the 1100. The integrated 5G modem still but supports sub-6 GHz bands, but MediaTek promises it'south the fastest of its kind.

This will exist difficult to dispute in the existent earth, as Ericsson estimates 5G coverage is relatively modest and will remain then until 2025.

Other notable features include back up for up to 200 megapixel camera sensors, 4K HDR video capture and hardware-accelerated AV1 video decode. The commencement smartphones to characteristic the new Dimensity 1200 and 1100 chipsets are expected to come up from Realme in the first half of this year.