MediaTek Announces Kompanio 1380 SoC for Premium Lightweight Chromebooks
Jan. 27, 2022Afterannouncingthe Kompanio 1300T platform for tablets and Chromebooks last year, MediaTek has today expanded its Kompanio line with theintroductionof the flagship-grade Kompanio 1380 chipset for ultra-light and premium Chromebooks. This is an advanced chipset designed to efficiently power future lightweight computing devices. Let’s take a look at the details.
MediaTek Kompanio 1380 SoC Announced
TheMediaTek Kompanio 1380 processor(MT8195) is built using TSMC’s 6nm architecture and offers high performance while preventing unnecessary battery drainage. It is an octa-core processor, featuring four high-performance Cortex-A78 cores clocked at 3.0GHz and four ARM Cortex-A55 cores clocked at 2.0GHz. Furthermore, the chipset comes with anintegrated 5-core ARM Mali-G57 GPUalong with MediaTek’s APU 3.0 multi-core AI processing unit to support AI-assisted camera and voice application features.
The CPU also supports up to a quad-channel 2133MHz LPDDR4x RAM and up to two 4K 60Hz displays or one 4K 60Hz display and two 4K 30Hz displays. Plus, its AV1 Hardware Decoding feature allows the users to stream 4K content with the best quality settings while also preserving battery life.
Other than these, the Kompanio 1380 processor comes with a dedicated audio digital signal processor (DSP) that aims to provide ultra-low power voice-on wakeup (VoW) functionalities for voice assistants like Google Assistant or Cortana. As for wireless connectivity, the chipset supports Wi-Fi 6/6E and Bluetooth 5 technologies.
According to PC Tseng, the General Manager of the Intelligent Multimedia Business at MediaTek, the Kompanio 1380“stands out with its outstanding processing performance, best-in-class multimedia and AI features, and smooth cloud gaming capabilities, all integrated into an ultra-efficient 6nm chip.”
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