MediaTek’s really dominant in the lower end of the spectrum with its cheap quad-core chips for the affordable smartphones but the Taiwanese company is now taking a dig at the high-end tablet market with its new MT8135 SoC. The system-on-chip implements ARM’s big.LITTLE technology that was only found on Samsung’s Galaxy S4 until now. But unlike Galaxy S4’s “octa-core”, MediaTek’s solution integrates two ARM Cortex-A15 and two Cortex-A7 chips for powerful tasks and less intensive tasks respectively. In short, Samsung’s Exynos 5 Octa runs quad-core at a single time, MediaTek MT8135 runs dual-cores as per the need but with a major difference – A15 and A7 chips can run simultaneously.
Additionally, the chip packs in Imagination Technologyies’ PowerVR 6200 GPU, Miracast support, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.0, GPS and FM radio.
[Via Engadget]
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