Dimensity 9400 to "slay the dragon" at the end of the year? The current Fa Ge is a little scary

Mobile China

2024-05-29 15:51Published in Beijing

　　The first quarter of 2024 has passed, and during this time, the mobile phone market is surging. On the one hand, the overall shipment of China's smartphone market was about 69.26 million units, a year-on-year increase of 6.5%, continuing the growth of the previous quarter, and the industry completely got rid of the trough. Among them, Honor mobile phones won the first place with a market share of 17.1%, a year-on-year increase of 13.2% (IDC data). In the high-end market, Huawei is aggressively challenging Apple, which has seen a 19% drop in sales (according to Counterpoint).

　　CNMO noted that the mobile phone processor market in the first quarter of 2024 has quietly completed the reshuffle. In this war without gunpowder, MediaTek firmly occupies the leading position in the global mobile phone processor market with a market share of 39%. This achievement is due to its shipments of 114.1 million units, as well as a significant increase of 17% year-on-year.

　　MediaTek, the people of Jianghu give the nickname "Fa Ge". However, unlike a legendary actor next door, MediaTek's name of "Fa Ge" has been mostly ridiculed for a long time, and many people always shy away when they see MediaTek chip mobile phones. This is not to blame consumers, mainly because there are too many "legends" left by Fa Ge, such as a ten-core processor that vomited blood in a small factory in Zhuhai. However, the protagonist in the hot-blooded work can shout out thirty years of Hedong and thirty years of Hexi, but MediaTek does not need to turn over in thirty years. Nowadays, more and more people are shouting the word "Fa Ge" with sincerity.

Fa Ge? Fa Ge!

　　According to data from Counterpoint, an authoritative market research agency, MediaTek has successfully surpassed Qualcomm since the third quarter of 2020 and jumped to become the world's largest mobile phone chip manufacturer. The word-of-mouth counterattack of MediaTek chips can actually be traced back to the release of the Redmi Note8 Pro in August 2019. At that time, Redmi chose to cooperate with MediaTek and equipped the Note8 Pro with the G90T chip for the first time. Although the overall performance of this chip is slightly inferior to that of the Kirin 810 in the same period, it is still regarded as a classic in the mid-range market.

　　After entering the 5G era, MediaTek's Dimensity series chips have completely reversed its market reputation. In particular, the Dimensity 1000 processor released in November 2019 adopts an advanced 7nm process technology, equipped with an architecture of 4 large cores + 4 small cores, and is known as the world's fastest 5G single chip, supporting 5G dual-mode and dual-carrier aggregation, and has extremely high throughput.

　　In 2022, MediaTek launched two chips, Dimensity 9000 and Dimensity 8100, further consolidating its market position. The Dimensity 9000 successfully challenged Qualcomm's position in the flagship market, while the Dimensity 8100 seized the opportunity of Qualcomm's neglect of the mid-range market and became the chip of choice for models such as the Redmi K50 and OnePlus Ace. Its outstanding performance and energy efficiency made the Dimensity 8100 one of the most reputable processors of its time. Today, the Dimensity 9300 and Dimensity 9400 compete fiercely with the Snapdragon 8 series, while the Dimensity 8300 still maintains a leading position in the mid-range market.

　　Many netizens believe that it is the competitive pressure brought by MediaTek's multiple chips that prompted Qualcomm to abandon the strategy of using Samsung's process to build the 8 series platform, and launched products such as the Snapdragon 7+ Gen 2 to "squeeze toothpaste" to regain the mid-range market. This speculation, while conclusive, undoubtedly reveals the fierce competition between the two sides in the market. At the end of this year, the two sides will have a more fierce competition, and a real technical competition is about to be staged.

Sharpen the knife to Qualcomm

　　Recently, the revelations of the blogger @Digital Chat Station have attracted widespread attention. According to its disclosure, in October this year, there will be three mobile phones with 1.5K straight screens to compete fiercely in the market, they are two mobile phones equipped with Dimensity 9400 processors and one mobile phone equipped with Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 mobile platform. The news immediately sparked a heated discussion among netizens, with some speculating that the three phones could be the upcoming OPPO Find X8, vivo X200, and Xiaomi 15.

　　Regarding the performance configuration of the Dimensity 9400, a lot of information has been leaked before. According to the digital chatting station, MediaTek is deeply involved in the design of the Armv9 "Blackhawk" CPU architecture in order to ensure the leading position of the Dimensity 9400 in performance and energy efficiency. This architecture performs well in terms of performance gains, especially from an IPC perspective, where the Cortex-X5 under the Black Hawk architecture is more powerful than both the A17 Pro and Qualcomm Nuvia. This means that at the same frequency, the performance of the Dimensity 9400's Black Hawk CPU architecture will occupy a significant advantage, which can be described as "crushing people at the bottom level".

　　Recently, the running scores of the next-generation flagship SoC Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 and Dimensity 9400 were also exposed on the Internet. The Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 scored 2,845 points in single-core and 10,628 points in multi-core in GeekBench6, with an Antutu running score of 3.13 million points. The Dimensity 9400 scored 2776 points in single-core and 11739 points in multi-core in GeekBench6, and the Antutu running score was as high as 3.45 million points. However, these benchmark data are only used as a reference, and the actual performance of the two platforms still needs to wait until the real machine comes out.

The era of MediaTek is coming?

　　According to the information recently obtained by CNMO, in the flagship mobile phone release boom at the end of this year, OPPO and vivo, the two major mobile phone giants, have clearly leaned towards MediaTek. The two models of the OPPO Find X8 series and the three models in the vivo X200 series have chosen MediaTek as a partner, except for the vivo X200 Ultra (which is expected to be released in mid-2025), which has not yet confirmed the chip solution.

　　At the same time, Xiaomi, as a long-established partner of Qualcomm, expects its Xiaomi 15 series and Redmi K80 series to be the first/first to be equipped with the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 mobile platform. However, the Redmi K70 Ultra, which has been difficult to come out in recent months, will still use MediaTek chips, highlighting the importance of MediaTek in Xiaomi products. In addition, there is news that the Honor Magic7 series may be released early, which may be related to the early launch of the Snapdragon platform. This year, we are expected to see two generations of Honor launch the Magic series of phones, which will be unveiled at the beginning of the year and the end of the year.

　　From ranking first in the global mobile phone chip shipment list for three or four consecutive years, to today's Dimensity 9400 and Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 4, MediaTek has risen step by step in the mobile phone chip industry, and is no longer the manufacturer that once represented "copycat", "heat" and "low-end", and the title of "Fa Ge" is well deserved.

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