Mediatek the Fabless Semiconductor Giant for SmartPhones has forged into octa-core processors for smartphone IC and has been well received in the maket. Given this, octa-core ICs could become mainstream in China by 2014. Its octa-core Cortex A7 MT6592 IC has impressive clock speeds of 1.7-2GHz, and has low power consumption as it can shift between running single and multiple cores simultaneously (its competitor’s existing octa-core application processor with a big.LITTLE architecture consists of four Cortex A7 cores and four A15 cores). The MT6592 should help China smartphone makers gain access to the mid-range and high-end largescreen (4.8-6″) smartphone segments, as well as help Mediatek receive more orders globally.
The new MT6582/MT6588 quad-core ICs would see Mediatek expanding its portfolio of quad-core smartphone ICs in a nine-month period to a wide range of segments, through the lowend, quad-core MT6582 (1.3GHz) and mid-range quad-core MT6588 (1.7GHz).
Mediatek which had a mere 11% market-share in 2011 in China’s SmartPhone IC has managed to capture a whopping 48% of Chinese SmartPhone IC and is expected to make further grounds upto 51% in 2014 at the cost of Qualcomm to the lack of any outstanding products in 2H13.
The Following Chart shows how Mediatek addressed every segment of the Mobile Handsets from High End SmartPhones to just Feature Phones
