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MediaTek adds Dimensity 9400e to its flagship mobile processor portfolio

MediaTek adds Dimensity 9400e to its flagship mobile processor portfolio

The Hindu14-05-2025

MediaTek on Wednesday (May 14, 2025) launched its new flagship mobile processor Dimensity 9400e for premium smartphones. According to MediaTek, the new Dimensity 9400e scales on AI, efficiency, connectivity, imaging, and gaming.
Built on TSMC's third-generation 4nm process, the MediaTek Dimensity 9400e features all-big core CPU architecture, including four Cortex-X4 super cores with clock speeds of up to 3.4GHz and four Cortex-A720 big cores with clock speeds of 2.0GHz.
The chipset is equipped with a flagship 12-core GPU, Immortalis-G720 for graphics rendering capabilities. Additionally, it supports hardware-level mobile ray tracing technology.
The chipset supports MediaTek Adaptive Gaming Technology (MAGT 2.0), that enables real-time performance scheduling between the chipset and gaming applications for high-frame-rate stability and low power consumption. Furthermore, it has MediaTek Frame Rate Converter (MFRC 2.0+), which can reduce power consumption by up to 40% when enabled.
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The Dimensity 9400e supports MediaTek NeuroPilot SDK, enabling generative AI applications and services. It features enhanced inference decoding technology (SpD+), accelerating the computational efficiency of large language models.
It also supports global mainstream large language models and small language models, enabling on-device operation of DeepSeek-R1-Distill (Qwen1.5B/Llama7B/Llama8B) models, as well as Gemini Nano with Multimodality, LLaVA-1.5 7B.
The MediaTek Dimensity 9400e comes with an 18-bit RAW ISP, supporting AI semantic segmentation video engines capable of 16-layer image semantic segmentation. It also supports high- dynamic noise reduction for recordings with three microphones.
The smartphones powered by the MediaTek Dimensity 9400e mobile chipset are expected to launch this month.

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