MediaTek has announced the date for its next flagship chipset launch event. The Taiwanese semiconductor biggie will debut the Dimensity 9200+ on May 10. It has been in rumors for some time now.
MediaTek’s official announcement on Weibo didn’t reveal anything about the new chipset. However, if history is any indication, the Diemnsity 9200+ should be an iterative upgrade over the Dimensity 9200 launched in November last year. The company has done something similar in the past as well. It followed up the 2021 flagship Dimensity 9000 with the Dimensity 9000+ in June last year. The “Plus” version brought a minor frequency boost to the prime CPU core and the GPU.
It should be no different this time around. The Dimensity 9200+ should feature a slightly faster prime CPU core than last year’s Dimensity 9200. The latter has one ARM Cortex-X3 Prime core clocked at 3.05GHz. MediaTek may bump up the frequency by about five percent on the “Plus” version (up to around 3.2GHz). The rest of the CPU setup may remain unchanged. Meaning that we will get three Cortex-A715 performance cores clocked at 2.85GHz and four Cortex-A510 efficiency cores operating at 1.8GHz.
The ARM Immortalis-G715 MC11 GPU should also get a similar speed boost on the Dimensity 9200+ (clocked at 981MHz on the Dimensity 9200). But everything else should carry over unchanged. The new MediaTek chipset will be fabricated on TSMC’s 4nm process node and support LPDDR5X RAM, UFS 4.0 storage, 4K displays, three simultaneous cameras, Sub-6GHz and mmWave 5G networks, Wi-Fi 7, MediaTek HyperEngine 6.0, MediaTek APU 690, and MediaTek MiroVision 890.
ASUS and Vivo may be readying new phones with the Dimensity 9200+
This is the first official confirmation of the existence of the MediaTek 9200+. However, as said earlier, there have been several leaks and rumors about the new chipset in the past. We have even heard names of a few devices that could ship with the upcoming MediaTek processor. Those include the ASUS ROG Phone 7D and the Vivo X90S Pro. Vivo sub-brand iQOO may also be readying new devices with the Dimensity 9200+ under the hood.
As far as competition is concerned, Qualcomm may soon launch the Snapdragon 8+ Gen 2. It will be a similarly overclocked version of last year’s flagship Snapdragon 8 Gen 2. Both MediaTek and Qualcomm will introduce their 2023 flagships later in the year. Samsung is also expected to return to the flagship market with the Exynos 2400 this year. It didn’t launch a follow-up to the Exynos 2200 last year. The Exynos 2400 could power the Galaxy S24 in some markets.
2023-04-28 15:06:08