MediaTek MT6592

MediaTek launches MT6592 “true octa-core” SoC

MediaTek octa-core SoC

Right on schedule, MediaTek today unveiled its MT6592 System On a Chip (SoC), billing as “the world’s first true octa-core mobile platform.” The Chinese company’s first octa-core processor is built around eight ARM Cortex-A7 cores with each core capable of being clocked up to 2GHz. Fully scalable, the MT6592 can run both low-power and more demanding tasks by using any […]

MediaTek working on true octa-core SoC

MediaTek octa-core SoC

Is that quad-core processor powering your smartphone or tablet a tad too slow for you? Finding that those so-called octa processors based on ARM’s BIG.little architecture lacking a little pep? Fortunately for you, hope is at hand. True octa-core processors could soon make their way into our mobile devices if MediaTek has anything to say about it. Calling itself “the […]

Future Sony flagship smartphone to use MediaTek octa-core processor?

MediaTek chipset

MediaTek, better known for its more affordable processors, has reportedly sent samples of its upcoming octa-core Mediatek MT6592 chipset to a number of smartphone manufacturers including Sony, LG, ZTE, Huawei and Lenovo. Running between 1.7GHz and 2GHz, it has reportedly setting some impressive scores on the AnTuTu benchmark suite. Based on a Cortex-A7 architecture, it will be manufactured on a […]