MediaTek has officially announced the MediaTek Helio X20 chipset which would be the first mobile chipset with 10 cores (Deca-cores). MediaTek is expected to take the Snapdragon 800 series from Qualcomm and Exynos 7 Octa series from Samsung.
The MediaTek Helio X20 makes uses of 10 cores which are arranged in a Tri-cluster design. The chipset make uses of two powerful cortex A72 cores which clocks at 2.5GHz, then 4 Cortex A53 cores clocked at 2.0GHz and the last four Cortex A53 cores which clocks lesser at 1.4GHz. The three processor cluster are binded together by MediaTek Coherent System Interconnect (MCSI)..
The SoC includes LTE Cat.6 Modem which supports download speed up to 300Mbps and crunching the graphics is the yet-to-be announced ARM Mali T800 GPU. However, the chip still relies on 933MHz LPDDR3 RAM which the company feels will still do the job perfectly.
Since the Tri-Cluster design is heralded to be faster and less power consuming we can only believe that the chipset would deliver some killer figures on benchmark listing when they arrive on devices.
MediaTek will provide manufactures with the chipset sample by H2 2015 which means we could start seeing smartphone using the processor towards the end of the year or basically early next year.
