MediaTek has introduced the Kompanio 838. This is a 6nm octa-core chip intended for Chromebooks from the midrange segment. The Kompanio 838 contains an Arm Mali G57 GPU and an NPU for AI tasks that, according to the manufacturer, achieves 4 Tops.
The MediaTek press release shows that the Kompanio 838 has two performance-oriented Arm Cortex-A78 computing cores. contains a maximum clock speed of 2.6GHz. The SoC also has six Arm Cortex-A55 computing cores with a maximum clock speed of 2.0GHz and supports Lpddr4x and DDR4 memory. MediaTek chose eMMC 5.1 as the storage standard.
The accompanying Arm Mali G57 GPU contains three computing cores and offers support for a single 4k screen at a maximum of 60Hz or two 4k screens at 30Hz. The chipset supports up to two camera sensors via the Imagiq 7-ISP, each of which can have a resolution of 16 megapixels. Videos can also be recorded in 4k resolution. Finally, the Kompanio 838 will have support for Wi-Fi 6 and 6E. It is not yet clear when MediaTek will launch the chipset on the market and how much the processor will ultimately cost.
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