MediaTek's new Dimensity 9000 chip may power your next Android flagship instead of Qualcomm Snapdragon 898

MediaTek may finally be on track to take on Qualcomm in the flagship segment.

MediaTek has announced its flagship chipset, Dimensity 9000, as it aims to finally take on Qualcomm in the premium-end market. The Dimensity 9000 chip is the company’s most powerful chipset, which is why it will find its place inside some Android flagship phones slated to arrive in 2022. That will put a dent in Qualcomm’s share in the flagship Android market because MediaTek’s previously launched high-end Dimensity chipsets were no match for a SoC like the Snapdragon 888 or even Exynos 2100.

The Dimensity 9000 is the world’s first mobile chip built on the 4nm fabrication technology of TSMC, catapulting MediaTek ahead of Qualcomm in the race. But that is just one of many feathers Dimensity 9000 has in its cap. MediaTek’s new processor is also the first to use the Arm v9 architecture and Cortex-X2 cores. The CPU uses a single Cortex-X2 performance core clocked at 3.05GHz, three Cortex-A710 cores clocked at 2.85GHz, and four Cortex-A510 efficiency cores running at 1.8GHz. For graphics, there is a 10-core Arm Mali-G710 GPU with MediaTek’s fifth-generation APU that has a total of six cores for AI processing.