Surely the message to Qualcomm is: “œGame on!“ MediaTek officially introduced the world’s first true octa-core mobile processor, MT6592, and the first devices to feature it are expected to arrive as soon as end of year. It is a 28 nm chip which has eight low-power Cortex A7 cores and all eight cores can operate simultaneously — at up to between 1.7GHz and 2GHz, depending on the bin.
Unlike Samsung‘s Exynos octa-core processor, this is a true eight-core chip. Samsung‘s chip is merely dual quad-cores working in conjunction, but never at the same time. The slower quad-core is used for low-power tasks like keeping everything functioning when the phone is asleep, whereas the other, more powerful chip is used for process intensive tasks.
According to the company’s figures, the MT6592 manages to beat the quad-core Snapdragon 800 ““ which is extremely powerful ““ in benchmarks, power consumption (as low as 40 percent) and temperature.
The MT6592 has an image signal processor that supports 16-megapixel camera modules. Then there’s an ARM Mali-450 MP graphics processor clocked at 700MHz, which promises to deliver smooth full HD UI drawing at 60fps. What’s left for MediaTek to do is to tackle the 4G space, which is still Qualcomm’s stronghold at the moment. According to General Manager Xie Qingjiang, his company will launch its own 4G modem also by end of year, and device manufacturers will be able to start using it alongside MediaTek’s quad-core or octa-core chips in the first half of 2014.
Source: IntoMobile
