MediaTek’s new flagship chipset is ready for AI agents and tri-fold phones

MediaTek has formally announced its caller flagship mobile chipset, the Dimensity 9400. It has the year-over-year spec bumps we’d expect to see, on with a fewer future-looking features conscionable to screen each the bases.

The 9400 is built connected a 3nm process and is “up to 40 percent much power-efficient” than its predecessor, the 9300. It comprises 1 Arm Cortex-X925 core moving astatine 3.62GHz, on with 3 Arm Cortex-X4 and 4 Cortex-A720 cores, some of which were announced astatine past year’s Computex. MediaTek says that this operation results successful 35 percent faster single-core show and 28 percent faster multi-core show compared to the 9300. The chipset besides includes Arm’s caller 12-core Immortalis-G925 GPU with 40 percent faster ray tracing.

That’s the basal stuff. On the much futuristic side, there’s MediaTek’s ain eighth-generation NPU with enactment for grooming certain kinds of lightweight AI models on-device, with “80 percent faster ample connection exemplary punctual performance.” It besides supports AI video procreation and provides a developer model for creating agentic applications, which is AI that tin really do things for you. In theory, that’s the adjacent large crook successful AI, with everyone from Apple to Rabbit moving retired however to marque it a reality.

Oh, and if tri-fold phones ever instrumentality off, the 9400 supports scaling contented for those extended screens. MediaTek isn’t the archetypal chipmaker to fig that 1 out, though.

In each likelihood, the Dimensity 9400 volition beryllium acceptable agelong earlier the astir futuristic features it supports; MediaTek says that the 9400 volition beryllium disposable successful the marketplace successful Q4 of this year. The company’s high-end chips thin to look successful flagship phones from Chinese OEMs similar Vivo and Oppo. As such, the 9400 whitethorn not marque it to the US, wherever Qualcomm chipsets predominate the fashionable Android flagships.