The launch of the first 'real' eight-core processor is still recent, under the seal of MediaTek and with the denomination MT6592, appeared at the end of last November in the bowels of some smartphones such as the Zopo ZP998 or Alcatel Idol X +. While some still remain in a state of shock after checking how the chipset of the Taiwanese firm exceeded 32.000 points In the benchmarks, it turns out that the Asian company has not rested on its laurels and would already be finalizing the details that would allow it start providing mobile manufacturers with a new eight-core SoC with 4G LTE support in January: the MediaTek MT6595.
At first, the launch of this first processor of MediaTek with eight cores and network support LTE was scheduled for the middle of next year, but China's rapid and strong entry into the world of 4G it has forced the Taiwanese company to modify its plans and advance the testing schedule, and so on. In this sense, certain sources such as GizChina suggest that the usual MediaTek partners would already be testing the first units of the MT6595, with the intention of starting its distribution over the next month and that, in this way, we could witness the launch of the first smartphone equipped with the aforementioned processor sometime at the end of the first quarter of 2014.
MediaTek stands up to Qualcomm with its new MT6595
Obviously, the expansion of the network LTE for a market as large and important as China is not the only reason why MediaTek has decided to 'pick up the pace', but we also have as an argument the advantage of Qualcomm regarding the manufacture of processors with support LTE. Faced with this situation and since the chipset 5 Exynos Octa de Samsung Nor do they seem to have yet found the key that allows them to provide perfectly network-compatible SoCs 4G, en MediaTek They seem to have seen the perfect opportunity to approach the American company on the one hand and, incidentally, give another direct to the chin of the South Korean giant.
In the specifications section and according to Asian sources, the new MediaTek MT6595 will feature the same eight-core architecture ARM Cortex-A7 - working all of them simultaneously - which already offers the MT6592. In the same way, two variants will also be launched whose clock speeds will be 1,7 ó 2,2 gigahertz. In the section on network compatibility, the MT6595 it will be with the WCDMA, TD-SCDMA and GSM bands - just like the MT6592 current - and will add support for FDD-LTE and TD-LTE.
It remains to be seen if the manufacturers opt for them, even though it is top-notch, the snapdragon line is overrated and gives an additional value that a mobile comes out with its processors.