MediaTek has shown a bold innovation in its latest processor, the Dimensity 9300, eliminating the traditional low-power core cluster design and adopting an all-large-core architecture, including four Cortex-X4 ultra-large cores and four Cortex-A720 large cores. Despite previous rumors that the Dimensity 9300 had an overheating problem, MediaTek vehemently denied it and insisted that it performed well.
The latest news has revealed that MediaTek has not changed its strategy due to the controversy over the Dimensity 9300 and instead plans to continue with an aggressive architecture on the upcoming Dimensity 9400. According to the Weibo revelation of the digital chatting station, the Dimensity 9400 will no longer use four Cortex-X5 ultra-large cores, but it will still adhere to the all-large core architecture and be manufactured using TSMC's 3nm process. The leak also pointed out that the Dimensity 9400 is expected to surpass the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 in several aspects in terms of design performance, while the end customers still include vivo, OPPO and Xiaomi.
At the same time, similar to the Dimensity 9300, the Dimensity 9400 will no longer have low-power cores. Both the Dimensity 9400 and rival Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 will use TSMC's 3nm process node, but given that the latter will use Qualcomm's in-house Oryon CPU architecture for the first time, it is expected to be higher than the Dimensity 9400. Qualcomm executives have also previously hinted that the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 will be higher than the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3.
It should be noted that considering that the Dimensity 9300 has just been released in early November this year, there is still a long time before the official release of the Dimensity 9400, and its final performance and market competition still need to be further observed. However, MediaTek's aggressive innovation strategy is undoubtedly playing an increasingly important role in the processor market and deserves close attention.