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TL;DR
- MediaTek has introduced {that a} future flagship chip is utilizing a TSMC 3nm course of.
- This chip is probably going the Dimensity 9400, which is anticipated for use in 2025’s telephones.
MediaTek is broadly anticipated to announce the Dimensity 9300 flagship chipset in This fall, and it’ll energy some high-end telephones in 2024. The chip designer is losing little time, although, because it’s simply introduced a key element about its flagship chip that may energy high-end gadgets in 2025.
MediaTek introduced that it’s developed its first chip utilizing a TSMC 3nm course of:
MediaTek and TSMC at the moment introduced that MediaTek has efficiently developed its first chip utilizing TSMC’s modern 3nm expertise, taping out MediaTek’s flagship Dimensity system-on-chip (SoC) with quantity manufacturing anticipated subsequent yr.
The tape-out milestone implies that the chip’s design is completed and prepared for manufacturing. Nonetheless, the corporate’s quote confirms that that is certainly a flagship Dimensity chip, presumably the Dimensity 9400 if manufacturing is simply going down subsequent yr.
MediaTek in contrast the 3nm TSMC course of to TSMC’s N5 (5nm) tech, claiming that the brand new course of provides a velocity enchancment of as much as 18% for a similar energy consumption or a 32% drop in energy consumption for a similar velocity. It provides that the brand new course of brings a ~60% enhance in logic density. It’s unclear how the brand new manufacturing course of compares to TSMC’s N4 course of utilized in present flagship chips, although.
MediaTek confirmed that its first flagship processor utilizing TSMC’s 3nm course of is ready to energy telephones, tablets, automobiles, and different gadgets from the second half of 2024. That will certainly broadly line up with a Dimensity 9400 chip as soon as once more. However this additionally successfully confirms that the upcoming Dimensity 9300, set to be introduced in This fall 2023, will keep on with TSMC’s 4nm design.
It looks as if the Dimensity 9400 wouldn’t be the one Android chip utilizing TSMC’s newest course of. Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 may also be constructed on a 3nm TSMC course of, in keeping with leaker Digital Chat Station.