MediaTek’s new Dimensity 9000 flagship could compete with Qualcomm’s top-tier Snapdragon chips
MediaTek has just announced its latest flagship processor: the Dimensity 9000, the company's most powerful chip ever that looks like it should be able to go head to head with the best chips that more popular competitors like Qualcomm and Samsung offer.
Where previous top-tier Dimensity chips (like last year's Dimensity 1000) were still less powerful than contemporaries like Qualcomm's Snapdragon 888 or Samsung's Exynos 2100, the new Dimensity 9000 is coming out of the gate to make a case for 2022 Android flagships.
The new Dimensity 9000 is the first mobile chip to be built on TSMC's 4nm process, in addition to using Arm's new v9 architecture. It's also the first announcement CPU to use Arm's new core designs: a single...