MediaTek Helio P22 SoC With Support for Dual Cameras, Up to 20:9 Displays Launched for Affordable Smartphones

MediaTek Helio P22 was launched on Tuesday. The brand new system-on-chip (SoC) is particularly designed for next-generation inexpensive smartphones. Touted to be the primary to convey the 12nm manufacturing course of to the price range smartphone market, the brand new SoC has ARM Cortex-A53 processing items, helps twin digital camera setups in addition to synthetic intelligence (AI) enhancements by means of MediaTek NeuroPilot. The chip additionally has 4G LTE on two SIM playing cards in addition to 802.11ac for high-speed Web entry. Smartphones with the Helio P22 will hit the market by the tip of second quarter this 12 months, although its quantity manufacturing has already been kicked off.

In contrast to the Helio P60 that debuted at MWC 2018 earlier this 12 months for mid-range smartphones, MediaTek Helio P22 is focused at price range smartphones. Thus, the brand new SoC has eight cores of ARM Cortex-A53 that may be clocked at as much as 2.0GHz. There is not a devoted AI unit, however the firm claims that the SoC will assist frequent AI frameworks, together with TensorFlow, Caffe, and Caffe2, and include an auto-select perform to assist superior options equivalent to Face Unlock, and a Bokeh mode. Additional, there's hardware-driven dual-camera assist for a mixture of 13-megapixel and Eight-megapixel sensors alongside 30 FPS (frames per second) body fee.

MediaTek has offered 3A and its Digicam Management Unit (CCU) to allow excessive auto-exposure convergence speeds. The Helio P22 can be claimed to have succesful depth engine to convey real-time Bokeh preview to inexpensive smartphones. Equally, the SoCis claimed to minimise grain, noise, aliasing, and chromatic aberration.

Whereas numerous inexpensive smartphones within the present market have an 18:9 facet ratio, the Helio P22 SoC helps 20:9 HD+ (720x1600 pixels) show panels. There may be Bluetooth v5.zero, 4G twin SIM assist, and a four-satellite World Navigation Satellite tv for pc System (GNSS).

"With assist for high-quality twin digital camera images, AI enhancements, and unimaginable energy effectivity, the Helio P22 units a brand new bar for accessibility to premium options. We count on continued gadget maker wins and shopper progress on this phase with MediaTek's new Helio P22 chipset," mentioned TL Lee, Basic Supervisor of MediaTek's Wi-fi Communication enterprise unit, in a press assertion whereas saying the brand new SoC.