MediaTek announces Dimensity 9000 5G chipset on 4nm process

During MediaTek’s ongoing Summit conference taking place over the next couple of days, the Taiwan-based chip maker is announcing its latest 5G chipset called the Dimensity 9000. It’s the world’s first TSMC chip built on the 4nm process – which should improve performance while improving power efficiency. The new sub-6GHz 5G chipset is the first smartphone chip to use a Cortex-X2 core clocked at up to 3.05Ghz and is the world’s-first smartphone chip to include Bluetooth 5.3.

The SoC is arranged in a 1+3+4 setup. In addition to that single Cortex-X2 “ultra core”, it has a cluster of…