Update: MediaTek reached out to us and denied the report. Quoting a Nikkei Asia piece, the firm affirmed that it has a close relationship with TSMC for advanced manufacturing processes and packaging. MediaTek has also added Intel to its supplier list to offer both Intel and TSMC products. …
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… While initially reported in the Chinese media, the purported deal was reported by The Wall Street Journal earlier this month. …
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… NVIDIA says it developed the CPU in collaboration with MediaTek . What it should have said instead is that it simply copied a part of MediaTek's architecture for its Dimensity 9400 and Dimensity 8500 mobile chips. …
… Do note that MediaTek is set to debut two versions of its Dimensity 9600 chip later this year: vanilla and Pro . …
… To save costs, Google is also reportedly interested in sending the chip's designs directly to TSMC instead of working through MediaTek. …
… Related Story Anthropic’s Offhand Mention Of ‘Logic Chips’ Has The Korean Media Salivating Over A Samsung Foundry Tie-Up, Even As MediaTek Just Killed A Nearly Identical Rumor The new deal will give Anthropic access to multi-Gigawatt worth of compute capacity. …
… The YouTube channel Geekerwan points out that the CPU cores of the RTX Spark are smaller than the ones found in MediaTek’s previous-generation silicon. …
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