Just over a month since the announcement of the new 64-bit processor cores company ARM - Cortex-A72, and MediaTek company has announced the start of deliveries of the first single-chip assemblies with their use. As stated in a press release MediaTek, the first decision on the new ARM cores are supplied to customers of the company, and devices based on them - tablets and smartphones - will appear in retail sales in the second half of this year.
MediaTek first assembly on the new computing cores ARM became SoC MT8173. This quad-core solution that combines dual-core Cortex-A72 and two core Cortex-A53. . Unlike the first version CorePilot, CorePilot 2.0 allows to combine in a new unit for heterogeneous computing not only all the available computing cores, but also graphics core SoC.
MediaTek MT8173 chip supports displays with a frequency of 120 Hz scan resolution up to 2560 x 1600 pixels. When decoding video formats H.264 / HEVC (10-bit) / VP9 allowed output image quality with Ultra HD 4K at 30 frames per second (external monitors). Frequency cores rises to 2.4 GHz.
Another interesting development MediaTek, production-ready and already passing the certification, this chip MT3188 (ASIC) with the support of all three major standards for wireless charging: A4WP BSS 1.2, Qi 1.1.2 and PMA 1.0. Single-chip solution instead of three discrete solutions will create a device that can be charged as part of any available docking station. This is all the more important that the standard Qi, for example, has received relatively widespread, but it is less progressive than the other two.