MediaTek today announced that it has successfully developed a 3nm smartphone processor. The Taiwanese chipmaker became the world’s first semiconductor company to formally announce a 3nm chipset for smartphones. Samsung and Qualcomm are using 4nm process nodes for their next-gen flagship chipsets. Apple’s upcoming Bionic A17 SoC for the iPhone 15 series will be a 3nm solution, but it’s not yet official.
MediaTek’s first 3nm processor will be manufactured using TSMC’s industry-leading 3nm chip fabrication technology. However, the company hasn’t shared many details about the chip, not even its name. It has only said that the chipset will be a flagship offering under its Dimensity lineup. It will enter mass production next year. Devices powered by the chip will arrive on the market in the second half of 2024.
According to MediaTek, its first 3nm solution won’t be limited to smartphones and tablets. The Taiwanese chip giant also expects the chip to power “intelligent cars and various other devices.” It says the processor is equipped with technologies necessary to meet the “ever-increasing user experience requirements” for mobile computing, high-speed connectivity, artificial intelligence (AI), and multimedia.
“We are committed to our vision of using the world’s most advanced technology to create cutting-edge products that improve our lives in meaningful ways,” said MediaTek President Joe Chen. “TSMC’s consistent and high-quality manufacturing capabilities enable MediaTek to fully demonstrate its superior design in flagship chipsets, offering the highest performance and quality solutions to our global customers and enhancing the user experience in the flagship market.”
MediaTek will benefit from TSMC’s more efficient 3nm process
TSMC’s 3nm process technology brings power, performance, and logic density improvements over older generations. Compared to its 5nm solutions, 3nm chips will deliver 18 percent after performance at the same power. Keeping the speed unchanged will result in a 32 percent power reduction. 3nm chips also bring a 60% increase in logic density, freeing up some space inside devices. Mediatek will benefit from these improvements.
As said earlier, the Taiwanese firm will beat both Samsung and Qualcomm to the 3nm race. The latter two companies are sticking to the 4nm tech for at least one more year. Their 3nm smartphone chips won’t be available until early 2025. So MediaTek will have a few months of headstart over its two arch-rivals in the semiconductor industry. Time will tell whether this helps it make further inroads into the premium phone segment, which is largely dominated by Qualcomm.The post MediaTek announces the world’s first 3nm smartphone chipset appeared first on Android Headlines.

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