The Mediatek Helio X20 10-core SoC is now official

12 May, 2015
The company has officially unveiled its new high-end chip with a unique tri-cluster design.

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  • 12 May 2015

So a Cortex-M4 @ 364MHz is in the X20 SoC?

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    • Force Majeure
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    • 12 May 2015

    Stadtionalist, 12 May 2015This SoC, together with all current octa- and hexacore SoCs... moreI vote for the GPU in Nvidia's Tegra X1, the Maxwell 256 core version. That should do it.

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      • UGm
      • 12 May 2015

      take my money!

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        • nybreath
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        • 12 May 2015

        John, 12 May 2015Absolutely crazy. Not a single application nowadays uses al... moreThis is obviously a comment by someone that don't understand how big.LITTLE works, and didn't understand how the tricluster works. There isn't a time when more than 4 cores are active at the same time.

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          • AnonD-220861
          • nCh
          • 12 May 2015

          What about Heating ??? didn't mention regarding this issue which is very important now a days.!!!

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            • MVg
            • 12 May 2015

            abbyzz, 12 May 2015FYI... Even Apple doesnt manufacture their own chip..Samsun... moreAtleast some one understands apple aint that great

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              • nnA
              • 12 May 2015

              AnonD-183154, 12 May 2015Only Apple and Intel knows how to design chips that can dyn... moreThe way you put it makes it sound like Apple produces microprocessors, something which they obviously don't. Intel knows how to produce processors, Apple doesn't.

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                • ArtificiallyNowhere
                • qQA
                • 12 May 2015

                Goodbye respectable battery life.

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                  • AnonD-369458
                  • 5EJ
                  • 12 May 2015

                  Mediatek is Taiwanese

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                    • Anonymous
                    • v0q
                    • 12 May 2015

                    sigh.. why they dont just create their own smartphone..? e.g. Mediatek Helio X20..,S1..,G1.etc..?they could have ruled out samsung.

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                      • anonymus
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                      • 12 May 2015

                      AnonD-183154, 12 May 2015Only Apple and Intel knows how to design chips that can dyn... moredid apple ever designed a chip? all a chips are from samsung.

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                        • abbyzz
                        • XNt
                        • 12 May 2015

                        FYI... Even Apple doesnt manufacture their own chip..Samsung is their brainchild to help them .. Apart from the IOS they hardly manufacture anything on their own..

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                          • Anonymous
                          • 2I1
                          • 12 May 2015

                          John, read the article, can't you?

                          Mediatek said it won't run 10 cores simultaneously, the two A72 will only run at heavy load.

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                            • 12 May 2015

                            John, 12 May 2015Absolutely crazy. Not a single application nowadays uses al... moreyou didn't get the point.. in 10 core its clustered as 2 quad core and 1 dual core and these never work simultaneously.. if you are using cpu intensive apps its use the high power dual core processor... if you are using normal apps 1st quad core will work... and if you are just using the phone the low powered quad core will work... and its more battery efficient

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                              John, 12 May 2015Absolutely crazy. Not a single application nowadays uses al... moreDid you even bother to read the article? St

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                                • John
                                • 3K3
                                • 12 May 2015

                                Absolutely crazy. Not a single application nowadays uses all 4 cores of a SOC, let alone 10. This will destroy the battery life. I'd rather see Mediatek create 4 (or maybe 8) very powerful cores than to see this joke

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                                  • joe sHmoe
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                                  AnonD-183154, 12 May 2015Only Apple and Intel knows how to design chips that can dyn... moreYou do know they use ARM based designs?

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                                    • AnonD-183154
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                                    • 12 May 2015

                                    Only Apple and Intel knows how to design chips that can dynamically alter clock for both power and efficiency.

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                                      • Anonymous
                                      • IhI
                                      • 12 May 2015

                                      Mediatek is Taiwanese, not Chinese. Get your facts straight.

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                                        • Stadtionalist
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                                        • 12 May 2015

                                        This SoC, together with all current octa- and hexacore SoCs are crazy. They make me cry. All for the marketing and unfortunatly customers all buy the BS.
                                        Woopie, tri-cluster... With two identical clusters, apart from the clockspeed and the hi-performance cluster only has two cores. (And an integrated 11th M4 core.)
                                        Go home Huawei, you're drunk.

                                        (What we need is a SoC with a high-performance cluster, e.g. 4x A72 and a high-efficient cluster, e.g. 2x A53, on a 16 or 14nm finfet, HMP enabled (at least on cluster level) and a high-performance GPU (so no adreno 418 BS or a Mali400MP2/MP4).