Mediatek launches Dimensity 1050

Mediatek launched a slew of chipsets recently including the Dimensity 930, Dimensity 1050 and the Helio G99. Among them the Dimensity 1050 has stood out as the most flagship of all as it is the company’s first offering to support millimetre-wave (mmWave) 5G connectivity alongside the widely adopted sub-6GHz frequency. The addition of mmWave 5G to the Dimensity 1050 SoC has enabled MediaTek to make the competition tougher for Qualcomm that already has its Snapdragon platforms with support for the same cellular network technology. MediaTek also brought the Dimensity 930 and Helio G99 as two other chips for the next-generation smartphones. Based on the TSMC 6nm process technology, the MediaTek Dimensity 1050 SoC carries an octa-core CPU. The chip supports 3CC carrier aggregation on sub-6GHz (FR1) spectrum and 4CC carrier aggregation on mmWave (FR2) spectrum. The company claims that the Dimensity 1050 is capable of delivering up to 53 percent faster speeds and greater reach to smartphones over the LTE + mmWave aggregation.

The presence of mmWave 5G support on the Dimensity 1050 will help provide better connectivity in smaller, densely populated areas. Mediatek has integrated two ARM Cortex-A78 CPUs with speeds reaching 2.5GHz and the ARM Mali-G610 graphics processing unit with the new Dimensity SoC. There is also support for Wi-Fi optimisations and Wi-Fi 6E support along with 2x2 MIMO antenna as well as MediaTek’s HyperEngine 5.0 gaming technology to support lower-latency connections with the new triband — 2.4GHz, 5GHz, and 6GHz frequency. The chip also includes support for UFS 3.1 storage and LPDDR5 memory.