The next wave of flagship Android phones and tablets will, for the most part, use chipsets from either Qualcomm or MediaTek. We’ve already seen some details for the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6, and we are now getting our first bits of info for the Dimensity 9600.
Tipster Digital Chat Station revealed that the upcoming flagship SoC from MediaTek will be fabricated on a 2nm process node, without confirming whether it will be TSMC’s N2P or Samsung’s SF2.
Either way, the chip is expected to utilize a 2+3+3 all-big core CPU architecture with a focus on delivering top-notch single-core performance, which is said to rival Apple’s flagship A-series chips. The post did not confirm whether this is the current A19 Pro chip or the next-gen Apple A20. We also don’t get confirmation of the clock speeds.
DCS mentions that MediaTek will bring enhanced Compute Matrix Engine (CME) and Scalable Matrix Extension (SME) capabilities without any major adjustments to the cache. On the GPU side, Dimensity 9600 is said to offer an advantage against competing 2nm chips with native frame interpolation and resolution upscaling and improved ray-tracing performance.
The first Dimensity 9600-powered devices are expected to launch in September, which is the same timeframe when we’re expecting the first batch of Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 phones.
Source (in Chinese)
