MediaTek Announces Dimensity 8050 SoC, Seems to be a Rebadged Dimensity 1300/1200

[T0@st]

MediaTek has been unveiling some new mobile chipsets this week, but keen-eyed news outlets have noticed that the Taiwanese fabless semiconductor company is simply renaming and relaunching hardware from last year, with some tweaks here and there. Today's announcement of the Dimensity 8050 SoC was almost immediately questioned - GSMArena noticed that this "new" model was a near dead ringer, in terms of specifications, for last year's mid-range Dimensity 1300 and 1200 smartphone chipsets. There are some upgrades in terms of memory bandwidth, and MediaTek boasts that the 8050 has been updated with its sixth generation HyperEngine technology.

Alarm bells were ringing when folks realized that the much older Dimensity 8000 SoC was built on a 5 nm process - the supposedly superior (in terms of model number hierarchy) 8005 is a 6 nm chip. Last week the mobile specialist site also spotted that MediaTek's Dimensity 7050 chipset was yet another example of the smartphone tech company rolling out a "rebranding phase." The news outlet pointed out that this newly revealed mobile CPU was just a renamed Dimensity 1080 - with the original model having hit the market in November 2022. MediaTek seems to renaming several older chipsets based on TSMC's 6 nm process - it is possible that this effort is part of a company drive to clear surplus silicon.



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[Nostras]

Geez at least with Intel/AMD/Nvidia you get a minor clock bump, they didn't even bother here.

 

[kondamin]

Do people who buy devices with mediatek socs care if it’s the latest and greatest?

 

[Luke357]

Do people who buy devices with mediatek socs care if it’s the latest and greatest?

Most people who buy MediaTek SOCs don't even care if it's MediaTek or not. They are as mediocre as it gets.