This week MediaTek launched the MT6592, a heterogeneous computing SoC which combines an advanced eight-core ARM® Cortex®-A7 processor configuration with industry-leading multimedia capabilities and mobile connectivity.
Building on the advanced 28nm HPM high-performance process, the MT6592 has eight CPU cores, each capable of clock speeds up to 2GHz. The architecture is fully scalable, and the MT6592 enabling both low-power and more demanding tasks to run effectively by using the eight cores in any combination. An advanced MediaTek scheduling algorithm also monitors temperature and power consumption to ensure optimum performance at all times.
On the multimedia side, the MT6592 SoC uses the quad-core ARM Mali™-450 GPU, offering great performance density with area-optimization, low latency and energy efficiency. The ARM Mali-450 MP GPU is an enhanced version of the hugely successful ARM Mali-400 MP GPU which brings top-of-the range 2D and 3D graphics acceleration to consumer electronics. Linear performance scaling and a focus on maximizing processing efficiency, even when rendering at four times Full Scene Anti-Aliasing (4xFSAA), ensures superior image quality and provides a perfect solution for 2K and 4K screen resolutions. Thanks to an integrated configurable L2 cache with shared memory access, multiple levels of power management and a combination of immediate-mode and tile-based rendering, it is also able to coherently control memory bandwidth and lower overall system power consumption. The ARM Mali-450 MP GPU provides double the fill-rate and geometry throughput of the ARM Mali-400 MP GPU - whilst being a fast, low-risk route to market thanks to the maturity of the underlying design and compatibility with the same DDK that is used by the ARM Mali-400 MP GPU.
Intex have now announced that it will be the first to launch an Indian smartphone with the new octa-core Mediatek chipset, offering high performance for multi-tasking at an affordable price-point for consumers. In their press release, Sanjay Kumar Kalirona, Business Head-Mobile at Intex Technologies said that their "quest to become the top smartphone player in the industry has made us bring extraordinary products with such revolutionary technology in the hands of consumers".
For more on the release, see these articles:
MediaTek - MediaTek Launches MT6592 True Octa-Core Mobile Platform
Intex Technologies to launch smartphone with MediaTek octa-core chip - Financial Express
Intex becomes first Indian company to launch 'Octacore' smartphone - Economic Times
Intex to launch a 6-inch HD smartphone with 1.7 GHz Octa-Core MediaTek MT6592 processer