MediaTek announces Helio P60 octacore with A73 cores

MediaTek has announced the Helio P60. With this octacore produced on a 12nm process, the manufacturer focuses on midrange smartphones. The soc is said to be more powerful and economical than the previous generation.

With the Helio P60, MediaTek makes the switch from a big.Little configuration of eight A53 cores to a variant with four more powerful A73 cores and four more economical A53 variants. According to the manufacturer, the performance gain compared to the previous P23 and P30 socs can be up to seventy percent and the Mali G72MP3 should also be a lot more powerful.

At the same time, the switch from TSMC’s 16nm process to the 12nm production process makes the soc more economical, according to MediaTek, the chip works twelve percent more efficiently. The image signal processor has also been upgraded and supports a dual camera setup of twenty and sixteen megapixels.

MediaTek also mentions an AI accelerator that works in combination with its Neuropilot SDK and can therefore handle Google’s Android Neural Network API and frameworks such as TensorFlow and Caffe2. This should help the SOC with, among other things, face and object recognition and applications for augmented reality.