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MediaTek Takes On Samsung With Its Octa-Core Chipset

The new SoC will power cost-effective smartphones.

 

Taiwanese chip maker MediaTek, just announced their newest Octa-Core MT6595. Thanks to the brands such as Micromax, XOLO, and LAVA, MediaTek is a well known in India. Its SoC's have help push quad-core performance to the masses, and now the chip-maker announced its octa-core processor.

Their newest incarnation, the MT6595 along with the MediaTek 'CorePilot Heterogeneous Multi-Processing Technology' is supposed to deliver outstanding performance along with energy efficiency. The processor unlike most quad-core processors by manufacturers like Samsung and Qualcomm delivers what MediaTek refers to as true Multi-core processing. it works with brains instead of brawn by utilising every core available in the most efficient manner.

The MT6569 is built around 4 ARM Cortex-A17 processors that work in unison with another 4 CPU’s using the existing Cortex-A7 architecture. MediaTek’s secret sauce for this piece of silicon involves the ability to utilise a single for a single operation. This means that if your phone lies dormant in your pocket simply playing music, the phone will utilise just one core to do just that delivering outstanding battery life.

When a heavier task is executed another more capable core, (depending on the task at hand) simply jumps into action. This is a lot different compared to the way a normal quad-core processor works by utilising all the cores at a lower frequency to work on multiple operations/tasks (threads) at once.

Let’s the just hope that the price is right and that we see the true octa-core processors from MediaTek, delivering better battery life and performance in affordable handsets.


TAGS: processors, Mobile Phones, Android

 
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