MediaTek unveiled its quad-core 64-bit LTE SOC, MT6732 earlier this week, today the company has announced MT6752, the company’s latest Octa-Core LTE SoC at the Mobile World Congress 2014 in Barcelona. It is pin compatible with the quad-core MT6732 chip. It has eight 64-bit ARM Cortex-A53 Cores and Mali-T760 GPU and is aimed at Super-mid market.
MediaTek recently announced MT6595 Octa-Core chip with 4 ARM Cortex-A17 and 4 Cortex-A7 CPUs targeted at high-end segment. Both the MT6752 and the MT6732 would compete with the Octa-Core Qualcomm Snapdragon 615 and Snapdragon 610 chips.
Highlights of MediaTek MT6752 Octa-Core SoC
- 2 GHz ARM octa-core Cortex-A53 64-bit CPUs
- Mali-T760 GPU with support for the Open GL ES 3.0 and Open CL 1.2 APIs
- 1080p, 30fps video playback, H.265 and legacy H.264
- 1080p, 30fps H.264 video recording
- Up to 16MP camera image signal processor (ISP)
- MediaTek ClearMotion technology for smooth video playback at 60fps on mobile devices
- MediaTek MiraVision technology for DTV-grade picture quality
- Integrated Multi-mode 4G LTE Modem – Rel. 9, Category 4 FDD and TDD LTE (150 Mb/s downlink, 50 Mb/s uplink)
- 3GPP Rel. 8, DC-HSPA+ (42 Mb/s downlink, 11 Mb/s uplink), TD-SCDMA and EDGE are supported for legacy 2G/3G networks
The new MediaTek MT6752 platform would be commercially available early Q3 of 2014, reference design and mass production would begin in Q4.