Mediatek to launch Dimensity 8100 in March
Mediatek teased a Dimensity 8000 platform back in December, and reports were it is going to be manufactured on the 5nm process by TSMC. The chip is almost ready to launch, and now leakster Digital Chat Station revealed it will be named Dimensity 8100 when it arrives in March.
The Dimensity 8100 will have an octa-core CPU, with the four Cortex-A78 performance cores clocked at 2.75 GHz. The GPU will be Mali-G510, developed by Arm and is yet to appear in any SoC.
The platform is likely to arrive as a successor of the Dimensity 1100 because it will be a step down from the Dimensity 9000, Mediatek's true flagship platform. Interestingly enough, this new chip was reportedly called Dimensity 7000 at first, so hopefully, this will be the last renaming before the product goes live next month.
MediaTek has been relatively quiet after unveiling its high-end Dimensity 9000 SoC for smartphones. Multiple rumours have talked about its younger sibling, the Dimensity 8000, and how it'll debut alongside a Redmi K50 series device. Now, Weibo leaker Digital Chat Station says that there is yet another MediaTek chipset in the pipeline called the Dimensity 8100.
For all intents and purposes, the Dimensity 8100 is little more than a Dimensity 8000 with bumped up clock speeds, a relation we see annually on high-end Snapdragon chipsets. A GPU upgrade could be in the cards, too.
To recall, the Dimensity 8000 was slated to feature four ARM Cortex-A78 cores clocked at 2.7 GHz and four Cortex-A55 cores at 2.0 GHz, along with an ARM Mali G510 GPU. Both chipsets will be fabbed on TSMC's 5nm node.
MediaTek's decision to use previous-generation ARM CPUs is a tad puzzling, but makes sense when we consider that the Dimensity 8100/8000 aren't meant to compete with high-end Qualcomm SoCs and hence can be designed as such.
Digital Chat Station adds that MediaTek will launch both processors together sometime next month, and a smartphone running the Dimensity 8100 also be unveiled alongside it. The leaker adds that some existing devices originally slated to use the Dimension 8000 have opted to swap it out for a Dimensity 8100.
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