MediaTek's Next Chip Will Boost Low-Power AI in Next Year's Top Android Phones

MediaTek has unveiled its next big chip for premium Android phones, promising improvements for performance and AI operations.

MediaTek's chip, the Dimensity 9500, debuts at a seemingly deliberate moment just days before Qualcomm is set to reveal its own silicon, the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 . While we don't know the latter's performance metrics, it will almost certainly compete with the Dimensity 9500 to run the most powerful Android smartphones. The first phones running MediaTek's new chip will be Vivo and Oppo handsets launching in October for release in Europe, South America and Asia, but not the US yet.

MediaTek's Dimensity 9500 has a mix of improvements over its predecessor, last year's Dimensity 9400 . Its CPU cluster has 29% higher single-core and 16% higher multi-core perfo