MediaTek will take on Samsung and Nvidia in the emerging market for quad-core chips for high-end smartphones.
The Hsinchu, Taiwan-based company announced today the MT6589, a quad-core system-on-a-chip (SoC) that integrates a modem that supports HSPA+ and other international standards.
The integration of a modem into a quad-core chip is a first, the company says.
The processor is based on ARM's Cortex-A7 design, the same technology used in Qualcomm's upcoming quad-core S4 processors.
But that Qualcomm chip won't be available commercially until well into next year. The MediaTek chip, on the other hand, will appear in smartphones that are expected to ship in the first quarter of 2013.
That said, it won't be a cakewalk. Nvidia's quad-core Tegra 3 is already used in a number of phones from the likes of HTC and Motorola.
And the Galaxy S3 uses Samsung's new Exynos 4 Quad chip.
MediaTek joins Samsung, Nvidia quad-core club
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