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MediaTek Aspires to Expand Business in India

MediaTek is an established name in the field of technology. Its chips power to many low-priced phones. The Taiwan-based firm wants to expand at our home ground and affirmed the same in a meeting with the Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad today.

The company aspires to make technology accessible to everyone and remarked in an official statement –

MediaTek chairman (MK Tsai) shared his commitment to make technology more accessible for people. He was encouraged by the great market potential that India holds in the field of technology and high tech services. He shared with the Minister that MediaTek is keen on expanding its presence in India.

The maker only designs chips and doesn’t manufacturer them on its own. It gets the products made from its vendors. The Telecom minister made it known the flexible policies and great demand for technology in the country and highlighted the ‘Make in India’ program in which accessible technology is the prime criteria.

Mr. Shankar shared the views of establishing BPOs in rural areas and creating more IT hubs in small towns, which in turn will bring prosperity and growth to the lesser developed parts of India.

February 7, 2015
MediaTek Brings Out New MT6595 4G LTE Octa-Core SoC in India

MediaTek has officially announced the launch of a brand new MediaTek MT6595 SOC for the Indian market with support for 4G LTE connectivity. This new chipset will be competing against Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 800 which still dominates the high end segment.

Economic Times reports that the new MediaTek MT6595 has an octo core configuration, based on the latest ARM architecture – the Cortex A17, successor to the once popular A9. As already mentioned, this new SoC will take on the likes of Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 800/801 as it has support for WQXGA display resolution, along with support for Ultra HD 4K video playback. Made up of quad Cortex A17 cores, it can clock speeds upto 2.2Ghz. In terms of connectivity, it has support for Wi-Fi 802.11ac, Bluetooth 4.0 LE, GPS and 4G LTE Cat.4 (FDD and TDD).

The new MediaTek MT6595 processor is undeniably a beast of an SoC, and we hope to see them in mid-range phones with high performance at affordable prices.

October 14, 2014

Hands On With the HTC Desire 616

HTC recently launched a new phone into the Indian market, and despite the fact that many phones exist with similar specs, the price and HTC reassuring name give the new Desire 616 a definite edge.

The HTC desire 616 has a 5 inch display with 1280 x 720 p display an Octa Core MT6592 chipset that has been down-clocked to 1.4 GHz to ensure proper and efficient battery drain along with stability in the OS. Also, even though a lot of people pointed out in our hands on video that the Desire 616 does not have Sense UI, in reality HTC has added Sense 5.5 to the Desire 616, which is on top of Android Jellybean, with a hope of a KitKat upgrade soon.

The optics are fitted with a decent 8 MP camera with 1080p video capture + a 2 MP camera with 720p video capabilities. The main storage is 4GB which can be moved, in-fact is automatically moved to external storage the minute you add a card, seamless downloads for all. 1GB of RAM will suffice and the device promises a great overall functionality.

HTC has hit the right mark with its recent influx of devices in the Indian Market. With the phones like Desire 816 and 516 becoming hot category favourites, the 616 will be an exciting product for India. Stay tuned for the review and watch our hands on below. (please ignore the error in the initial title)

Read the Full Official Specs Below

Size	142 x 71.9 x 9.15 mm
Weight	150 g
Display	5 inch, HD 720p
CPU Speed	1.4 GHz octa-core CPUs
Platform Android	Android™ HTC BlinkFeed 5.5™
SIM Card Type	Dual SIM (Regular SIM + micro SIM)
Network	2G/ 2.5G – GSM/GPRS/EDGE: 850/900/1800/1900 (SIM1 & SIM2) 3G – UMTS/ HSPA: 900/2100 MHz with HSPA+ up to 21Mbps
Memory	Total storage: 4 GB, available capacity varies RAM: 1 GB Expansion microSD™ up to 32GB
GPS	Internal GPS antenna
Sensors	Accelerometer Proximity sensor Ambient light sensor
Connectivity	3.5 mm stereo audio jack Bluetooth® 4.0 Wi-Fi®: IEEE 802.11 b/g/n
Camera	8 MP camera with auto focus 1080p Full HD video recording Front Camera: 2MP Front Camera: 720p video recording
Price	Rs – 16999 at launch
Battery	Capacity: 2000 mAh Removable rechargeable Li-polymer battery Talk Time: Up to 14 hours for 3G Standby time: Up to 700 hours for 3G
AC Adapter	Voltage range/frequency: 100 ~ 240 V AC, 50/60 Hz DC output: 5 V and 1 A

July 21, 2014

MediaTek Unveils Quad-Core MT8135 big.LITTLE SoC

Taiwanese chip maker MediaTek is looking to make its presence better known, and to that end, the company has announced its new quad-core MT8135 processor for high-end tablets.

It consists of four cores in total. Two Cortex A15 cores are paired with two Cortex A7 core in ARM’s big.LITTLE architecture. However, unlike the Exynos 5 chipset, the configuration here is called big.LITTLE MP, which allows both Cortex A15 and Cortex A9 clusters to work simultaneously. This makes it essentially a quad core processor (and that is just what MediaTek is touting it as).

The new configuration is also said to make the processor more efficient than current chips using big.LITTLE architecture.

The firm’s MT8135 SoC will use Imagination Technologies’ PowerVR G6200 GPU, which supports OpenCL GPU computing.

Imagination Technologies said the PowerVR Series 6 GPU used in the Mediatek MT8135 SoC uses its tile-based deferred rendering architecture. The firm also touted support for Miracast, giving tablets that use the chip the ability to stream content to supporting televisions.

Mediatek could in theory use the MT8135 SoC to power Windows tablets, especially since the PowerVR Series 6 GPU supports DirectX 10.1. However it is far more likely that the chip’s OpenGL ES and OpenGL support will be used along with OpenCL and Renderscript.

The benchmarking scores provided by MediaTek for the chip, also puts it ahead of both Exynos 5 in the Nexus 10 and Tegra 3.

No word on pricing or availability yet.

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July 29, 2013
MediaTek Reveals The World’s First True Octa-Core Mobile SoC

Samsung and Qualcomm are often associated in making the markets leading processors that are found in numerous mobile devices, while MediaTek are often responsible for providing chips for more affordable hardware. Now though MediaTek beats Samsung with the first true Octa-Core MT6592 processor.

The supplier of cheap quad-core chipsets to Chinese Smartphone manufacturers has announced the world’s first true Octa-core processor, where all 8 cores work together in tandem, and will reportedly feature performance that matches or surpasses that of the most powerful mobile SoC (based on ARM) currently, the Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 SoC. The True Octa Core SOC will run at speeds of 1.6GHz to 2GHz.

MediaTek said the product is a “true octo-core solution,” whereas other existing octo-core processors can only switch between using four cores at a time.

For example, Samsung’s previous octo-core chip, the Exynos 5410, is essentially two quad-core chips packed together and was used in some versions of its Galaxy S4 smartphone. One set of quad-core chips is designed for high-performance tasks such as gaming or video playback, while the other is made to handle less intensive processes like emailing or texting. But only four of the cores can be active at one time.

Do you think we will see many high end mobile devices using the MediaTek MT6592?

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July 27, 2013

Tag: mediatek

MediaTek Aspires to Expand Business in India

MediaTek Brings Out New MT6595 4G LTE Octa-Core SoC in India

Hands On With the HTC Desire 616

2G/ 2.5G – GSM/GPRS/EDGE:

3G – UMTS/ HSPA:

MediaTek Unveils Quad-Core MT8135 big.LITTLE SoC

MediaTek Reveals The World’s First True Octa-Core Mobile SoC