MediaTek launches Dimensity 9400e flagship chipset, T930 platform for 5G FWA
NEW DELHI:
MediaTek
on Wednesday said premium
5G
smartphones powered by its new Dimensity 9400e chipset will launch in the market from this month.
Separately, the Taiwanese fabless chipmaker also rolled out the T930 chipset for
5G fixed wireless access
(FWA) and
mobile Wi-Fi devices
, with support for sub-6GHz bands and capable of achieving 5G speeds of up to 10Gbps.
Built on TSMC's third-generation 4nm process, the
MediaTek Dimensity 9400e
features an All Big Core CPU architecture, including four Cortex-X4 super cores with clock speeds of up to 3.4GHz and four Cortex-A720 big cores with clock speeds of 2.0GHz. The chipset is equipped with a 12-core GPU, Immortalis-G720, which supports hardware-level mobile ray tracing technology.
The Dimensity 9400e supports the latest MediaTek NeuroPilot SDK for generative AI applications and services. It features enhanced inference decoding technology (SpD+), accelerating the computational efficiency of large language models. It also supports global mainstream large language models (LLMs) and small language models (SLMs), enabling on-device operation of DeepSeek-R1-Distill (Qwen1.5B/Llama7B/Llama8B) models, as well as Gemini Nano with Multimodality, LLaVA-1.5 7B, and more.
'With the launch of the MediaTek Dimensity 9400e, we are expanding our family of leading mobile platforms to ensure both device makers and users can select from a larger range of flagship experiences than ever before,' said Yenchi Lee, general manager of MediaTek's Wireless Communications Business Unit.
On the other hand, the
MediaTek T930
comes with 6CC-CA downlink, and five-layer 3Tx, enabling uplink performance of up to 2.8Gbps. It is also the first to support 8Rx with a total 200MHz downlink bandwidth, said MediaTek.
In addition, the T930 supports 3GPP Release-18 standard, and more advanced modem features including 3Tx and L4S innovations proposed by MediaTek.
The chipset combines the MediaTek M90 5G modem with a quad-core Arm Cortex-A55 CPU and a dedicated network processor. The full T930 platform also includes an RF transceiver, a GNSS receiver, and power management.
The T930 platform can be combined with a dedicated NPU chip to form a Generative AI gateway device, providing advanced Edge AI processing and interaction with devices within the network.
'The growth of 5G mobile data is now being driven by a wide range of application services, while the rapid development of AI, which enables on-device learning, also aligns with new user demands and experiences,' said JC Hsu, corporate senior vice president of MediaTek.
MediaTek said it has already become the preferred partner of leading international customers and is working closely with several ecosystem partners to integrate the T930 into next-generation FWA and Mi-Fi products for global markets.
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