MediaTek unveils Dimensity 9500 ahead of Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5

MediaTek has announced the Dimensity 9500, its next high-end smartphone chip, just days before Qualcomm is expected to unveil the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen ￰0￱ and Oppo will launch the first phones with MediaTek’s new chip in October in Europe, South America, and Asia. However, no release date for the US has been given ￰1￱ new Dimensity 9500 is a big step up from last year’s Dimensity ￰2￱ says the new CPU delivers 29% higher single-core and 16% higher multi-core scores while using 37% less ￰3￱ to Universal Flash Storage 4.1 from UFS 4.0 results in 2x read and write ￰4￱ to the company, this cuts large AI model loading times by 40%. The chip keeps a familiar layout, but updates the cores to Arm’s renamed C1 ￰5￱ CPU cluster pairs one Arm C1-Ultra clocked at 4.21 GHz with three Arm C1-Premium cores at 3.5 GHz and four Arm C1-Pro cores at 2.7 ￰6￱ graphics capabilities have also increased ￰7￱ reports a 33% bump in GPU performance and a 42% gain in energy ￰8￱ company says that this should help phones last longer during gaming ￰9￱ added that ray tracing performance has doubled, enabling more realistic reflections and ￰10￱ ray tracing on, the chip can render up to 120 frames per ￰11￱ supports modern game technologies, including Vulkan 1.4 and Unreal Engine 5.6.

MediaTek’s new chip is highly focused on AI The Dimensity 9500’s NPU 990 is billed as 100% faster on the smaller, 3-billion-parameter models often used on phones, which typically top out around 7 billion ￰12￱ also claims a 42% power-efficiency improvement when running these small AI ￰13￱ chip is described as the first in the industry to generate 4K images using ￰14￱ large language models, MediaTek says the Dimensity 9500 is the first mobile platform to support BitNet 1-bit, a technique the company links to 50% lower power use when running LLMs. Together, these steps are aimed at making more AI features practical to run on the device rather than the ￰15￱ features see upgrades, ￰16￱ image pipeline adds support for 4K portrait video at 60 frames per ￰17￱ slow motion, the chip can handle 4K at 120 FPS, with Dolby Vision video and optical ￰18￱ with its predecessor, the platform supports camera sensors up to 200 megapixels, keeping headroom for high-resolution ￰19￱ improvements include 5CC carrier aggregation, which MediaTek says increases bandwidth by 15% compared with the prior generation.

That, combined with the efficiency gains in CPU and GPU subsystems, is meant to help phones sustain high data rates and performance without quick battery ￰20￱ to raise prices for 3nm Chips, affecting MediaTek and Qualcomm Another storyline could shape how these chips reach the ￰21￱ next-generation premium phone processors–including Apple’s A19 series, Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5, and MediaTek’s Dimensity 9500–are expected to use TSMC’s advanced N3P 3nm process. A report from China says TSMC has raised prices for this technology, which could put extra pressure on Android chipmakers’ ￰22￱ to a report by the China Times, TSMC increases N3P pricing by about 20% compared with the previous ￰23￱ cycle, MediaTek would face 24% extra costs for the Dimensity ￰24￱ the other hand, Qualcomm will face an increase of 16 percent for its Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen ￰25￱ impact on Apple, however, has not yet been ￰26￱ TSMC’s largest customer, projected to account for 22% to 25% of the foundry’s total revenue by 2026, Apple may have secured more favorable terms, which would give it a cost advantage over rivals using the same ￰27￱ $50 free to trade crypto when you sign up to Bybit now