Discussion Mediatek SoC thread

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Is this the MediaTek thread? or the Apple thread?

 

[Nothingness]

Is this the MediaTek thread? or the Apple thread?

It can be argued that we discuss MediaTek competition, though I agree I might have gone a bit too far

 

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Nvidia and MediaTek collaborate on 3nm AI PC CPU — chip reportedly ready for tape-out this month

Years of rumors may finally prove true.

www.tomshardware.com

According to reports from leakers on the Chinese social media site Weibo, Mediatek and Nvidia are collaborating on a 3nm AI CPU. IT Home shared a report from user "Mobile Chip Expert" today, claiming that the CPU is entering the tape-out phase of production this month, with mass production on track for late 2025.

If it's taping out this month, it's gotta be using the Cortex X925 core, not it's successor surely?

Mass production in late 2025 doesn't sound good either. That means it will come to laptops in early 2026. Basically launching alongside the 2nd generation Snapdragon X. I thought Mediatek/Nvidia might release it sometime in 2025 itself. It would have been strategic if they did so.

If that rumour is true, both Snapdragon X 2nd gen and Mediatek/Nvidia's SoC will be coming to notebooks in 2026. I don't think there'll be any significant growth in ARM notebook marketshare in 2025.

 

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Nvidia and MediaTek collaborate on 3nm AI PC CPU — chip reportedly ready for tape-out this month

Years of rumors may finally prove true.

www.tomshardware.com

If it's taping out this month, it's gotta be using the Cortex X925 core, not it's successor surely?

Mass production in late 2025 doesn't sound good either. That means it will come to laptops in early 2026. Basically launching alongside the 2nd generation Snapdragon X. I thought Mediatek/Nvidia might release it sometime in 2025 itself. It would have been strategic if they did so.
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If that rumour is true, both Snapdragon X 2nd gen and Mediatek/Nvidia's SoC will be coming to notebooks in 2026. I don't think there'll be any significant growth in ARM notebook marketshare in 2025.

There will be no growth until there is enough optimised software.

 

[DZero]

There will be no growth until there is enough optimised software.

Just is what is about to pull Huawei in their Harmony Os Next

 

[Doug S]

One could do that with 32-bit Arm.

Exactly. AArch64 cleaned up a few things in AArch32 but there was nothing stopping Apple from implementing highly aggressive SoCs without going 64 bit. What they couldn't do is have a viable plan to put them in Macs in the future since while they probably assumed phones could avoid going over 4 GB until the next (now current) decade, Macs were already there.