MediaTek has launched its news flagship chipset for smartphones namely Dimensity 9400. This System-on-Chipset (SoC) will power the flagship smartphones coming in last 2024 and 2025. It will be a direct competitor to the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite that is going to power some of the major names such as Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra, OnePlus 13, and so on. Here's everything you should know about the Dimensity 9400 SoC.
Firstly, it is a chipset that is built with AI (artificial intelligence) in mind. Of course, every company now wants to build products with AI in mind.
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MediaTek, in a release said that this chip, "...offers a massive boost in performance with its second-generation All Big Core design built on Arm’s v9.2 CPU architecture, combined with the most advanced GPU and NPU for extreme performance in a super power-efficient design."
So there's one Arm Cortex-X925 core clocked at 3.62 GHz paired with three Cortex-X4 and four Cortex-A720 cores. Compared to the previous gen chip, this one is about 35% faster in single core performance and about 28% faster in multi-core performance. The Dimensity 9400 has been built on top TSMC's 3nm process. MediaTek said that this new chip is about 40% more power-efficient than its predecessor.
"The MediaTek Dimensity 9400 will continue furthering our mission to be the enablers of AI, supporting powerful applications that anticipate users’ needs and adapt to their preferences, while also fueling generative AI technology with on-device LoRA training and video generation," said Joe Chen, President at MediaTek.
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MediaTek said that this chip has its 8th generation NPU (neural processing unit), and is also the first moble chip to offer on-device LoRA training. This will enable the chip to generate videos on the device. The Dimensity 9400 has up to 80% faster large language model (LLM) compared to the previous gen chip. The Dimensity 9400 also integrates MediaTek’s new Dimensity Agentic AI Engine (DAE), which is designed to turn traditional AI applications into sophisticated agentic AI applications.
The 12-core Arm Immortalis-G925 delivers super immersive gaming experiences with up to 40% faster raytracing performance compared to the previous generation. With MediaTek Imagiq 1090, the Dimensity 9400 provides HDR video recording throughout the entire zoom range so users can snap the perfect moment from a distance; MediaTek’s Smooth Zoom technology also makes it easy to capture moving subjects.
