Tech Desk 
Oct 09, 2024
MediaTek's newest flagship processor, the Dimensity 9400 SoC, has been unveiled, packed with impressive performance upgrades and innovative features.
Earlier, the company unveiled that the mobile platform would be announced in October and shared some minor information, and now it has provided a brief on the specifications and the capabilities of the processor.
MediaTek stated that the new system-on-chip (SoC) provides 35% faster performance on a single core than its predecessor. The MediaTek Dimensity 9400 SoC is claimed to compete with the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chipset and the Apple A18 series chipsets.
MediaTek Dimensity 9400 chipset
The MediaTek Dimensity 9400 chipset is a fourth-generation flagship processor developed with Arm's v9.2 CPU architecture along with dedicated GPU and neural processing unit (NPU) architectures. Particularly, it is built on Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited's (TSMC) second-generation 3nm fabrication process.
The MediaTek newly launched chipset sports one Cortex-X925 core with a maximum clock speed of 3.62GHz, three Cortex-X4, and four Cortex-A720 cores. The company said CPU architecture provides 35% faster single-core performance and 28% faster multi-core performance compared to the Dimensity 9300 SoC.
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In addition, the MediaTek Dimensity 9400 chipset adds the company's eighth-generation neural processing unit (NPU) and gives on-device LoRA training, on-device video generation capability, and developer support for Agentic artificial intelligence (AI).
Talking about the Graphics Processing Unit (GPU), the mobile platform is sported with the 12-core Arm Immortalis-G925, which is claimed to give 40% faster raytracing performance compared to its predecessor.
Moreover, the MediaTek Dimensity 9400 chipset supports HyperEngine technology. Meanwhile, the MediaTek Dimensity 9400 houses Imagiq 1090 for on-device image processing.
