MediaTek Announces Kompanio 1380 for Premium Chromebooks

[TheLostSwede]

MediaTek today announced its new Kompanio 1380 chip, which offers a new level of performance and best-in-class features for premium Chromebooks such as the new Acer Chromebook Spin 513. The Kompanio 1380 delivers incredible portable computing experiences with superb battery life, all in a compact form factor for slim and lightweight devices. "Kompanio 1380 continues MediaTek's legacy as the No. 1 chipmaker for Arm-based Chromebooks, elevating premium Chromebook experiences with next-level performance and extra-long battery life," said PC Tseng, general manager of Intelligent Multimedia Business Unit at MediaTek. "This chip stands out with its outstanding processing performance, best-in-class multimedia and AI features, and smooth cloud gaming capabilities, all integrated into an ultra-efficient 6 nm chip."

"Chromebook users have come to expect more from their Chromebooks, increasingly they are looking for their devices to strike a perfect balance of performance, weight and power efficiency," said John Solomon, VP of Chrome OS at Google. "The Kompanio 1380 is an integral part of delivering a great experience for users whether they're working from home, enjoying media on the go, or anything in between. We're excited to see its versatility come to life on the Acer Chromebook Spin 513, the first product to launch with this chip."




Key features of Kompanio 1380 include:

• Powerful processing: Kompanio 1380 features an octa-core CPU with four high-performance Arm Cortex-A78 cores with speeds up to 3 GHz for improved responsiveness. For gamers, its five-core Arm Mali-G57 GPU supports fast and vivid visuals, while the quad-channel 2133 MHz LPDDR4X ensures there is plenty of data bandwidth.
• MediaTek APU 3.0: This powerful multi-core AI processor accelerates AI-camera and AI-voice applications while also optimizing battery life.
• 4K60 HDR Display Support: The chip supports up to two 4K 60 Hz displays, or one 4K 60 Hz display plus two 4K 30 Hz displays, giving device makers a wide variety of resolution, performance and external connectivity choices to meet any product design aspiration.
• AV1 Hardware Decoding: The chip's advanced decoding features mean that consumers can stream 4K movies and TV shows with the best quality settings, while also enjoying longer battery life.
• Voice Assistant Ready: Kompanio 1380 comes with a dedicated audio digital signal processor (DSP) that provides ultra-low power voice on wakeup (VoW) capabilities for a wide variety of voice assistant services.
• Ultra-fast Connectivity: The chip is ready for Wi-Fi 6/6E and Bluetooth 5 connectivity, enabling the fastest wireless data transfers.

MediaTek's Kompanio chips have been widely adopted by device manufacturers to power the world's most popular mobile computing devices, including Chromebook laptops and tablets. Additional devices powered by the Kompanio 1380 will be available in the market soon.

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[dj-electric]

So.... we're still on the medium sized A78 and co cores for these.
Anyone knows when will we finally get laptop grade SoCs that present a complex of Cortex X2 cores besides smaller A78\A710 ones?
A Dimensity 9000 on steroids, if you will.

 

[TheLostSwede]

So.... we're still on the medium sized A78 and co cores for these.
Anyone knows when will we finally get laptop grade SoCs that present a complex of Cortex X2 cores besides smaller A78\A710 ones?

This is a mid-range 6 nm chip, not a high-end part. So sometime later this year for something better?
This sits "below" the 1300T, despite the model name, although the main difference is a weaker GPU, not taking into consideration that the 1300T is made for connected tablets and lacks USB 3.2 and NVMe support, but has 5G support.

MediaTek Kompanio 1300T

MediaTek Kompanio 1300T

www.mediatek.com

 

[watzupken]

So.... we're still on the medium sized A78 and co cores for these.
Anyone knows when will we finally get laptop grade SoCs that present a complex of Cortex X2 cores besides smaller A78\A710 ones?
A Dimensity 9000 on steroids, if you will.

This is meant for Chromebooks, so it is unlikely to be some flagship SOC. Having said that, I believe most ARM SOC makers would already started designing something for use in a high end laptop/ ultrabook. The success of Apple's M1 certainly spurred Qualcomm to work harder, and I am sure Qualcomm is not the only one since there is a sizeable and profitable market that is currently dominated by Intel, and to a lesser extend, AMD.

 

[TheLostSwede]

This is meant for Chromebooks, so it is unlikely to be some flagship SOC. Having said that, I believe most ARM SOC makers would already started designing something for use in a high end laptop/ ultrabook. The success of Apple's M1 certainly spurred Qualcomm to work harder, and I am sure Qualcomm is not the only one since there is a sizeable and profitable market that is currently dominated by Intel, and to a lesser extend, AMD.

But Qualcomm is bringing its Nuvia acquisition to mobile, at some point, as that's apparently their big bet now.

 

[seth1911]

what is a premium chromebook?

Chrombooks are like electric garbage

 

[john_]

The only one capable for building an ARM SOC for laptops right now is Samsung, thanks to the work it had already done into integrating the Radeon GPU in it's SOC.

The other company that is in a position to shake the market and we might see them doing a move in a year or two, is Nvidia. I think Nvidia was waiting to see how things will evolve in it's atemp to buy ARM, before building a hi end product for the platform. Now that they know that they can't buy it, they will have to decide. Continue downplaying the ARM ecosystem, or go full speed and start introducing ARM SOC with beefy GPUs for laptops?

Qualcomm I think it is in a half sleep situation where it tries to just throw out SOCs that are better than Mediatek's and nothing more.

Mediatek on the other hand is far from becoming a major player in hi performance SOCs. Their only way to build something fast, is to just pick everything from the top shelf. But are they capable to improve anything, even by 1%, to create a custom design that will be going over ARM's best? Maybe they should also approach AMD or Nvidia for the GPU part, like what Samsung did with AMD(I am assuming here that the RDNA2 GPU in Exynos 2200 will be a huge success here, hope I do not end up wrong).