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GSM Arena
06-05-2025
- GSM Arena
OnePlus Ace 5 Ultra surfaces in Geekbench with a confusing chipset choice
Last week we heard that OnePlus is working on a third member of its Ace 5 family, following the already available Ace 5 and Ace 5 Pro. Back then, this was rumored to use MediaTek's still-unannounced Dimensity 9400e SoC, which is the lower-bin of the 9400 family. But now a new OnePlus device has surfaced in the Geekbench database, and this one is powered by the recently unveiled Dimensity 9400+, which is the higher-bin model of the 9400 family. And that's rather confusing, as it's rumored to be launching in China as the OnePlus Ace 5 Supreme Edition (such names usually get translated into English as "Ultra"). OnePlus Ace 5 Supreme Edition (PLC110) appears on Geekbench- Dimensity 9400+- 16GB RAM- Android 15China launch this month. Main remain exclusive to China. #OnePlusAce5SupremeEdition #OnePlus #OnePlusAce5Ultra — Anvin (@ZionsAnvin) May 6, 2025 So we have an Ultra phone that's very close in its Geekbench scores to the OnePlus 10 Pro, but not quite there - as the Pro uses the Snapdragon 8 Elite SoC. Anyway, the presence of the Dimensity 9400+ is certain given the 3.73 GHz frequency of its Prime core - that is in fact the one quantifiable improvement it has over the 'vanilla' 9400, which topped out at 3.63 GHz. The prototype which ran the benchmark had 16GB of RAM, but of course OnePlus could choose to offer it with other memory amounts as well. Unsurprisingly, it runs Android 15. This phone is rumored to be released in China by the end of this month. Unfortunately, international availability isn't a given. We'll keep you posted.
India Today
28-04-2025
- India Today
Realme GT 7 to launch in India soon: 5 things we already know about it
The Realme GT 7 is expected to launch in India very soon. After making its debut in China just last week, the company has teased the phone's arrival in India through its official social media channels. The company is positioning this phone, designed with gamers in mind. The phone promises to offer impressive performance, including six hours of stable 120 FPS gameplay in BGMI. Although the brand has not yet revealed the India launch date or price, early leaks and teasers have given us a good idea of what to expect. Here's everything we know so far about the upcoming Realme GT will offer stable 120 FPS gaming for six hoursRealme has heavily focused on gaming performance with the GT 7. The brand claims the device can deliver up to six hours of smooth 120fps gameplay on BGMI. The phone has also been co-tested with Krafton, the developer behind BGMI, ensuring a well-optimised gaming will be powered by MediaTek's Dimensity 9400+ SoCLooking at the Chinese launch, we can expect the Realme GT 7 to feature the latest 3nm MediaTek Dimensity 9400+ chipset in India. This processor offers a high-performance CPU setup, including the Cortex-X925 prime core clocked at 3.73GHz. Paired with up to 16GB LPDDR5X RAM and up to 1TB UFS 4.0 storage (based on the Chinese model), users can expect fast speeds, smooth multitasking, and top-level gaming capabilities.A stunning, bright OLED display is expected The Realme GT 7 is rumoured to sport a 6.78-inch flat OLED screen with a 1.5K resolution and a 144Hz refresh rate. It boasts a peak brightness of up to 6,500 nits and a 4,608Hz PWM dimming rate. Gamers are also going to appreciate the 340Hz touch sampling rate, which should ensure fast screen response battery with fast charging supportadvertisementKeeping the phone running is said to be a massive 7,200mAh battery, supported by 100W wired fast charging. Even with its large battery, the Realme GT 7 is expected to remain slim and lightweight, making it easy to carry around without feeling bulky in the pricing and availabilityThe Realme GT 7 price in China starts at CNY 2,599 (roughly Rs 30,400) for the base 12GB RAM + 256GB storage variant, and goes up to CNY 3,799 (Rs 44,400) for the top-tier 16GB RAM + 1TB storage option. However, the Indian version of the phone could have only two or three variants, granted its predecessor — the Realme GT 6 — also came in three RAM and storage options: 8GB + 256GB, 12GB + 256GB and 16GB + 512GB. Considering the Realme GT 7 is a new model, its predecessor (GT 6) was priced between Rs 36,000 to Rs 40,000, and the GT 7 Pro price in India starts at Rs 54,999 — we can expect Realme to price the GT 7 somewhere in between Rs 40,000 to Rs 45,000. The phone is expected to launch in course, all of this is mere speculation, and Realme hasn't confirmed any of the details yet. Stay tuned to India Today Tech for all the latest updates on the Realme GT 7.
Forbes
11-04-2025
- Business
- Forbes
MediaTek Boosts Premium Lineup With Kompanio Ultra And Dimensity 9400+
MediaTek has been on a roll recently, hot off its major partnership with Nvidia for the DGX Spark AI chip, which powers the many DGX-based products from Nvidia partners ASUS, Dell and HP. In that partnership, MediaTek contributed its Arm CPU know-how and some other IP to enable Nvidia's most powerful small form factor AI solution. Continuing the product cadence, this month MediaTek has made a series of announcements, including the new Kompanio Ultra and Dimensity 9400+. These products fill in the more traditional parts of MediaTek's business, which include chips for smartphones and Chromebooks. While MediaTek continues to expand its business into other non-mobile segments, it is still very serious about being competitive in these markets, especially at the high end. (Note: MediaTek is a client of my firm, Moor Insights & Strategy.) The Dimensity 9400+ processor builds on the success of the 9400, which was used in the Vivo X200, Oppo Find X8 and iQoo Neo 10 Pro smartphones. The Dimensity 9400 was announced in October 2024, which means we're ripe for the usual speed bin with the 9400+ after six months. Both processors still use TSMC's 3nm process node, but chip yields always improve with time, and that's how we get the 9400+ today. The 9400+ elevates the same Cortex-X925 Arm core from 3.62 gigahertz up to 3.7 gigahertz; the Cortex-X925 is the cornerstone of the all-big-core design, which also includes three Cortex-X4 cores and four Cortex-A720 cores. The Dimensity 9400+ also features the same eighth-generation NPU 890, now with Speculative Decoding, which improves agentic performance by 20% compared to the Dimensity 9400. MediaTek has also optimized the 9400+ for DeepSeek's R1 model to allow it to run on-device with support for mixture-of-experts, multi-head latent attention, multi-token prediction and FP8 calculations. These improvements translate to the 20% AI performance boost mentioned above and set the stage for the 9400+ to be used by Chinese OEMs for on-device AI applications. There are also enhancements to BeiDou satellite support with a 33% improvement in time to first fix, even without a cellular network. There's also enhanced Bluetooth functionality, including direct phone-to-phone connection support of up to 10km in line-of-sight applications, according to MediaTek. The GPU configuration is the same, with no mention of clock speed differences, but there is the addition of a MediaTek Frame Rate Converter 2.0+, which the company says improves power consumption by 40%. Unsurprisingly, the MediaTek Dimensity 9400+ isn't a huge departure from the 9400, but it does provide many minor tweaks to make it more capable for AI, among other things. I would've loved to have seen larger clock speed improvements, but MediaTek has likely squeezed all it can from TSMC's third-gen 3nm process for this architecture. MediaTek says that the first phones powered by the Dimensity 9400+ will be available starting in Q2 2025, with some rumors indicating availability as soon as the end of April. MediaTek's Kompanio Ultra processor represents an entirely new tier of performance for MediaTek and for Chromebooks. It builds on MediaTek's successes in mobile and compute and creates an entirely new generation of AI-enhanced chips for Chromebooks. The base of this new Ultra-tier chip is an all-big 8-core design built around an Arm v9.2 Cortex-X925 (same cores and clock as the 9400), still using the TSMC 3nm process node. MediaTek claims that it has 18% faster CPU performance, 40% better GPU performance and up to 50% less power consumption versus the Intel Core Ultra 5 125U, not to mention 29% better battery life. This lines up with my experience with Arm-based Chromebook solutions, which goes as far back as a whitepaper I wrote about Chromebooks in 2016. MediaTek's Kompanio Ultra highlights MediaTek The Kompanio Ultra also supports Google Chromebook Plus with Gemini and has room for more AI applications with a 50 TOPS NPU. This is the same MediaTek NPU 890 found in the Dimensity 9400/9400+. This NPU is also nearly 5x faster than the NPU found in Intel's Core Ultra 5 125U, which MediaTek clearly sees as the direct competition in Chromebooks. Seeing as Google wants Chromebooks to have better AI and on-device performance, it makes sense that MediaTek would build these AI capabilities into the Kompanio Ultra. MediaTek is the undisputed leader in Chromebook processors and has dozens of design wins in the space, including with Acer, ASUS, DynaBook, HP and Lenovo. MediaTek also saw its Chromebook Plus sales in 2024 nearly double its standard Chromebook sales. MediaTek anticipates worldwide Chromebook growth in 2025 to be between 15% and 20%, which bodes well for a platform that enables Chromebook Plus capabilities. MediaTek continues to win with its flagship smartphone chips and now its flagship Chromebook solution. The sharing of IP across categories is a clear winning strategy for the company, especially in terms of growth opportunities. The use of both the Arm Cortex-X925 CPU cores and MediaTek NPU 890 should also bode well for the company's efforts across multiple markets, even beyond PCs and smartphones. That said, smartphones and Chromebooks are still very much MediaTek's bread and butter, even as the company seeks to diversify itself beyond those segments. The company must still put out strong products in those categories to stay competitive, and it seems that both Dimensity 9400+ and Kompanio Ultra are already getting recognition from customers and partners. I expect that we'll next hear from MediaTek about the Dimensity 9500 much later this fall, which is when the peak-performance competition will ramp up again.
