MEDIATEK

Unprecedented Dimensity 9300 chip is under development

MediaTek company is preparing a new mobile processor: the Dimensity 9300 (the successor of the 9200) and the leaked information about it is quite strange. Most mobile phone processors come in two types of configurations, with two or three types of cores. If there are two, then we usually have 2 or 4 powerful cores, and the rest are economical. In the three types of cores, one of the powerful ones is usually replaced by an extremely powerful core, today it is the Cortex-X series. However, according to leaks, the Dimensity 9300 should have many more of these cores, there's talk of four. They must be Cortex-X4 cores, and the first question mark has already been raised here. How does MediaTek want to cool this down?

To make matters worse, the remaining four will not be composed of economical cores (usually Cortex-A5xx), but of powerful cores (Cortex-A7xx). The leaks talk about Hunter-ELP (this is supposed to be the successor to Cortex-X3, i.e. probably Cortex-X4) and Hunter (which are the successors of Cortex-A715, i.e. probably Cortex-A720) cores, so there is no talk of power saving cores. And here the first question is repeated, how does MediaTek want to reasonably cool down? Today's setups like 1+3+4 and the like are pretty hot and hot, but what about 4+4+0?

Something like that sounds pretty unlikely for phones, because it would probably often be limited by throttling due to temperatures, and the phones' resistance would drop quite a bit even under low load. If such a processor were introduced, I would prefer to see it not as the Dimensity 9300, but more likely as the Kompanio for chromebooks and other laptops built on the ARM architecture. It remains to be seen how it will turn out in the end, and for now we can only guess.

Milan Šurkala