MediaTek has unveiled its new flagship mobile processor, the Dimensity 9400+, which features significant improvements in AI and other aspects. The first smartphones with this chip will be available in April.
The Dimensity 9400+ features an "all-big-core" system combining one Arm Cortex-X925 core clocked at up to 3.73GHz, three Cortex-X4 cores, and four Cortex-A720 cores. This design should accelerate single-threaded and multi-threaded performance of the devices.
The MediaTek chipset also features an integrated 12-core Arm Immortalis-G925 GPU with Micro-Output (OOM) support for more realistic visuals in games. The chip also features a new MFRC 20+ frame rate converter, developed in collaboration with game developers to double FPS and improve power efficiency by 40%.
For those who shoot a lot of video, the Dimensity 9400+ is equipped with the MediaTek Imagiq 1090, which allows for HDR video recording at the full zoom range. Other improvements include a longer Bluetooth connection distance between smartphones of 10 km, 6.6 times longer than the regular Dimensity 9400. The chip also supports tri-band Wi-Fi 7 with five streams and 5G/4G.
Returning to the topic of artificial intelligence, the Dimensity 9400+ received the MediaTek NPU 890 neural processor, like in the previous generation. However, the company notes that thanks to Speculative Decoding+ technology, the new chip demonstrates 20% better performance in tasks related to agent-based AI.