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Cheap 5-Inch Xperia Smartphone to Arrive in Q3

Japanese mobile phone maker Sony Mobile is expected to bring to the market this year a cheap Android-based phablet running under Google’s Android operating system, one that would be powered by a MediaTek quad-core processor, it seems. The company was already rumored to plan such a mobile device and, according...

28 March 2013
09:21 GMT

New MediaTek-Based Phones Coming Soon from Sony, Lenovo, ZTE

MediaTek-based smartphones are already available for purchase around the world, and it seems that that more of them are set to hit shelves in the not too distant future, including some coming from vendors such as Sony, Lenovo, Huawei, and ZTE. MediaTek is already offering its mobile processors at low price tags, bu...

22 March 2013
07:41 GMT

MediaTek Begins Shipping World’s First Quad-Core Cortex-A7 SoC for Android Devices

Although MT6589 is not the first quad-core SoC (system-on-chip) announced by Taiwanese company MediaTek, it’s the first one shipping. The newly launched MT6589 SoC is world’s first quad-core Cortex-A7 system-on-chip that makes it to the market, MediaTek claims. Even though the company is known for manuf...

12 December 2012
03:59 GMT

Microsoft Rumored to Partner with Huawei for Surface Phone

Sooner rather than later, Redmond-based software giant Microsoft might officially unveil details on its own Windows Phone handset, which has been long rumored to arrive on shelves under the name of Microsoft Surface Phone. As expected, the company denied the rumor, yet more and more details on what the upcoming dev...

6 October 2012
03:50 GMT

MediaTek is Now the 4th Chip Design Company in the World

MediaTek has just become the world’s fourth largest fabless chip designer after Qualcomm, Broadcom and AMD. The company achieved this by buying MStar for the amazing sum of 3.8 billion dollars. MStar is also a Taiwanese company just like MediaTek, and the move is said to strengthen MediaTek’s market posi...

25 June 2012
15:11 GMT

MediaTek Launches Special Wi-Fi SoC, D-Link Takes It Eagerly

MediaTek makes various connectivity chips and D-Link comes up with routers used in cloud environments, so the two decided to team up for once. MediaTek has a certain Wi-Fi system-on-chip known as RT6856, based on a 700 MHz MIPS 34KEc CPU core. It boasts dual PCI Express interfaces, which means that it can handle t...

3 May 2012
08:20 GMT

MediaTek Releases Wi-Fi-Bluetooth Combo Chip

MediaTek has formally announced the MT7650, a wireless chip that combines the benefits of two distinct wireless communication technologies. The new chip combines MAC/Baseband/Radio 802.11ac Wi-Fi with Bluetooth 4.0+HS all in a single chip. No doubt this is a result of the resource merge of MediaTek and Ralink. At...

30 March 2012
10:34 GMT

Rambus and MediaTek Enter Licensing Agreement

Based on this latest deal, long-time patent troll Rambus may actually be putting some effort into breaking out of that unfortunate reputation. After years of living off patent infringement lawsuit settlements, Rambus is making some actual business deals for once. The latest of them is an agreement signed with Med...

5 March 2012
09:32 GMT

MediaTek Launches MT6575 Ice Cream Sandwich Platform

Taiwanese company MediaTek announced the availability of the MT6575 platform for entry to mid-level Android smartphones. The platform runs the latest Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich operating system and is aimed at emerging and developing markets. Specs-wise, MediaTek MT6575 offers 1GHz ARM Cortex-A9 processor, 3G/HS...

13 February 2012
18:01 GMT

Opera Mini Arrives on MediaTek’s Runtime Environment (MRE)

Opera and MediaTek has just announced a new partnership aimed at making the most popular mobile browser in the world, Opera Mini, available on MediaTek’s Runtime Environment (MRE). MediaTek Inc. is a leading fabless semiconductor company for wireless communications, while its Runtime Environment has been desi...

2 December 2011
17:51 GMT

Ralink and MediaTek Merge to Consolidate Position in Wireless Market

The Taiwanese company Ralink has just announced that it has merged with MediaTek, as the two medium-sized businesses try to consolidate their position in the wireless market and become a force to be reckoned with. Ralink's name will surely ring a bell for many computer users since the company is building wire...

17 March 2011
03:43 GMT

MediaTek Has Weak Q4 2010, Expects Gross Margin to Fall in Q1 2011

It appears that A-Data is not the only company that had a less than excellent fourth quarter, as a recent report shows that MediaTek went through some financial decline, decline expected to last throughout Q1 2011 as well.2010 may have been a year of overall recovery for the IT industry, but some segments did poorer...

31 January 2011
10:27 GMT

Opera Mobile 10 on MediaTek's Handsets

Today, Norwegian software company Opera announced that Opera Mobile 10, its full-feature mobile browser, is now available on MediaTek's platform, and that it should power future handsets from the leading semiconductor company for wireless communications and digital multimedia solutions.According to the two comp...

6 September 2010
04:43 GMT

MediaTek Now Member of the Open Handset Alliance

The Open Handset Alliance, the entity behind the Android mobile operating system, has just added a new member, MediaTek Inc. More than 71 global mobile industry leaders that share the same commitment and vision for a richer future for the mobile space form the partnership called the Open Handset Alliance.MediaTek In...

13 July 2010
11:51 GMT

Samsung and Mediatek Overlooked by the 2009 Semiconductor Market Decline

Semiconductor revenues seem to have had hard luck this year. The market for wireless communications was the side of the IT industry that saw the smallest overall decline, specifically 8.2% (according to iSupply) and the data-processing segment holds the second place (9.8%.). On the other hand, the market segment that...

25 November 2009
06:34 GMT

Qualcomm and MediaTek Announce Patent Agreement

Qualcomm Incorporated, the leading developer of innovative wireless technologies, products and services, and MediaTek, Inc., a leading company for wireless communications and digital multimedia solutions, announced on Thursday the entering into a broad patent arrangement. According to the two companies, the agreemen...

20 November 2009
03:41 GMT

ARM Mali-400 GPU Gets Licensed by MediaTek Inc.

ARM and MediaTek Inc. announced today the licensing of the ARM Mali-400 MP multi-core graphics processing unit (GPU) for MediaTek's system-on-chip (SoC) technology. MediaTek Inc., as many of you might already know, is a worldwide leading fabless semiconductor company focused on wireless communications and digita...

7 July 2009
13:41 GMT

Microsoft and MediaTek to Develop Smartphone Chipsets

According to the latest news on the Web, Redmond software company Microsoft has partnered with the Taiwanese chip designer MediaTek for the development of chipsets that would be included inside future Windows Mobile smartphones aimed to be released on the emerging Chinese TD-SCDMA 3G market. MediaTek is a developer ...

16 March 2009
06:02 GMT


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