As technology moves ever forward, manufacturers inevitably have to move forward with it or suffer death by irrelevance. MediaTek continues its battle with other chipmakers as it launches improved chipsets of the deca-core kind – the Helio X23 and the Helio X27 – as upgrades to the already existing Helio X20 and X25.
The Helio X23 maintains Mediatek’s Tri-Cluster Deca-core architecture (2x Cortex-A72 + 4x Cortex-A53 + 4x Cortex-A53) driven by MediaTek’s CorePilot 3.0 tech. The Helio X27 particularly gets a speed upgrade over the current top dog – the X25 – with the Cortex A72 cores operating at 2.6GHz, and a bump to 875MHz for the Mali GPU.
Both chipsets also feature new support for the trendy dual camera photography, something we’re seeing in a number of phones this year and will probably see more of next year. The chipsets are ready for color + monochrome + depth of field applications to take advantage of this new technology.
Both the X23 and X27 also get significant energy efficiency boosts from their earlier variants. We will probably start seeing devices with X23 and X27 chipsets by the second quarter of 2017.
SOURCE: MediaTek
