MediaTek’s New Dimensity 9300 Chip Might Enhance Smartphone AI

Your Android cellphone may get a bit of smarter by tapping into the complete potential of AI.

MediaTek just announced the Dimensity 9300 mobile chip for Android units constructed with on-chip AI processing. The corporate says the APU 790 AI processor built-in into the chip will permit sooner, extra environment friendly on-device generative AI processing.

MediaTek claims the APU 790 processor expertise reduces the facility consumption of generative AI processes by 45 p.c and may course of AI requests as much as 8 occasions sooner than the earlier era chip, “with picture era inside one second utilizing Secure Diffusion,” in response to the press launch.

The chip will assist a number of massive language fashions, together with Meta’s Llma 2, Baichuan 2, Baidu AI LLM, and others, permitting customers to extra successfully faucet into AI experiences in music, photographs, and textual content.

Along with the AI assist supplied by the APU 790 processor, the Dimensity 9300 chip additionally incorporates the Arm Immortalis G720 GPU, which the corporate says will present a 46 p.c increase in GPU efficiency and a 40 p.c discount in GPU energy consumption with out degrading the standard of the efficiency. The end result, says MediaTek, is that the Dimesity 9300 “will ship console-level international illumination results at a easy 60 FPS. Plus, this highly effective chipset permits customers to seamlessly multi-task to allow them to recreation and video stream on the identical time or watch one other video whereas they play.”

MediaTek additionally guarantees sooner show speeds, seamless 5G connectivity, and sooner reminiscence with the Dimensity 9300, which shall be accessible in Samsung, OnePlus, and Nokia units, in addition to different manufacturers and units.