MediaTek releases Dimensity 9300 flagship 5G generative AI mobile chip, ushering in the era of full-core computing

November 6, 2023 – MediaTek released the Dimensity 9300 flagship 5G generative AI mobile chip. With its innovative full-core architecture design , it provides far superior features of high intelligence, high performance, high energy efficiency, and low power consumption. Breakthrough advanced technology defines new flagship experiences in terms of end-side generative AI, games, imaging, etc.

Chen Guanzhou, director and general manager of MediaTek, said: "With the advent of the era of comprehensive intelligence, MediaTek has achieved diversified development in smart terminals, smart cars, smart homes and other fields with its deep foundation and rich experience in the field of edge computing. And achieved excellent results. Through our leading edge AI computing and hybrid AI computing technology, we are committed to building a new full-scenario intelligent experience for users, promoting the popularization of generative AI innovative applications, and allowing cutting-edge technology to benefit a wider public. Empowering thousands of industries.”

Dr. Xu Jingquan, senior deputy general manager and general manager of MediaTek’s wireless communications business unit, said: “Dimensity 9300 is MediaTek’s most powerful flagship mobile chip to date. Through our groundbreaking all-large-core architecture design, it brings unprecedented benefits to flagship smartphones. An astonishing breakthrough in computing power. The unique full-core CPU combined with the new generation of APU, GPU, ISP and MediaTek’s unique cutting-edge technology can not only significantly improve terminal performance and energy efficiency, but also bring excellent terminal-side generation to consumers. AI experience.”

In order to meet the increasing demand for mobile computing power in modern times and the future, MediaTek jumped out of traditional architectural design thinking and pioneered the "all-large-core" CPU architecture of the Dimensity 9300, which includes 4 Cortex-X4 ultra-large cores with a maximum frequency of 3.25 GHz, and four Cortex-A720 large cores clocked at 2.0GHz, its peak performance is 40% higher than the previous generation, and power consumption is saved by 33%. The full large-core architecture works quickly, efficiently, and has high energy efficiency characteristics. It can reduce power consumption and extend battery life in both light-load and heavy-load application scenarios. The powerful multi-threading performance of the full large-core architecture can make multi-tasking on the terminal smoother, such as playing games and live video broadcasts at the same time, or playing videos while playing games.

Dimensity 9300 integrates MediaTek's seventh-generation AI processor APU 790, which is designed for generative AI. Its performance and energy efficiency have been significantly improved. The performance of integer operations and floating-point operations is twice that of the previous generation, and the power consumption is reduced by 45%. . APU 790 has a built-in hardware-level generative AI engine, which can achieve faster and safer edge AI computing. It deeply adapts the Transformer model for operator acceleration. The processing speed is 8 times that of the previous generation, and pictures can be generated within 1 second. Based on the characteristics of large language models with hundreds of millions of parameters, MediaTek has developed mixed-precision INT4 quantization technology. Combined with MediaTek’s unique memory hardware compression technology NeuroPilot Compression, it can more efficiently utilize memory bandwidth and significantly reduce the occupation of terminal memory by large AI models. Support terminal Run AI large language models with 1 billion, 7 billion, 13 billion, and up to 33 billion parameters. APU 790 also supports the generative AI model end-side "skill expansion" technology NeuroPilot Fusion, which can continuously perform low-rank adaptation (LoRA, Low-Rank Adaptation) fusion on the end-side based on the basic large model, thereby giving the basic large model a more comprehensive ability. MediaTek's AI development platform NeuroPilot has built a rich AI ecosystem, supporting cutting-edge mainstream AI large models such as Android, Meta Llama 2, Baidu Wenxin Yiyan large model, Baichuan Intelligent Baichuan large model, and a complete tool chain to help developers on the device side. Quickly and efficiently deploy multi-modal generative AI applications to provide users with terminal-side generative AI innovation experiences such as text, images, and music.

Dimensity 9300 is the first to adopt the new generation flagship 12-core GPU Immortalis-G720. Compared with the previous generation, the peak performance is increased by 46% and the power consumption is saved by 40% under the same performance, bringing a long-lasting and smooth flagship mobile gaming experience. Dimensity 9300 is equipped with MediaTek's second-generation hardware ray tracing engine, which supports 60FPS high-smooth ray tracing and brings game console-level global illumination special effects, setting a new benchmark for mobile game image quality experience. In addition, MediaTek's unique MAGT game adaptive control technology has been upgraded to the "Star Speed ​​Engine", which not only cooperates extensively with game applications, but also expands ecological cooperation with more types of applications to continue to improve user experience.

Dimensity 9300 has the flagship ISP image processor Imagiq 990, supports AI semantic segmentation video engine, can perform 16 layers of image semantic segmentation, and performs real-time frame-by-frame optimization of the color, texture, noise and brightness of the captured images, thus making Video recordings are brighter, sharper and more detailed. With the upgrade of the depth of field and light spot dual engines, the Dimensity 9300 can present movie-level light and shadow effects during 4K video recording. The chip also integrates an OIS optical anti-shake core, which can significantly improve the anti-shake calculation speed and film yield, and can quickly capture high-definition images in sports scenes and dark light environments. At the same time, Dimensity 9300 supports full-pixel focus overlay 2x lossless zoom function. By working closely with the world's leading sensor manufacturers, MediaTek will continue to create professional mobile imaging experiences for users.

MediaTek Dimensity 9300’s technologies also include:

Mobile display: Dimensity 9300 integrates the MediaTek MiraVision 990 mobile display processor, which supports 180Hz WQHD and 120Hz 4K display, as well as dual-screen display of terminal devices in the form of folding screens. It is equipped with a flagship smart TV-level AI depth-of-field image quality engine. Combined with the powerful AI performance of the APU 790, it can detect main objects and background images in real time. With MediaTek MiraVision PQ image quality enhancement technology, it can dynamically adjust the contrast of main objects. Sharpness and color enhance the three-dimensionality of the overall image and make it more lifelike. In addition, Dimensity 9300 supports the new Ultra HDR format in Android 14, which can make photos look more vivid and vivid and is compatible with JPEG format.

Audio noise reduction: Supports high-dynamic recording noise reduction with 3 microphones. With omni-directional high-dynamic sound collection capabilities and advanced noise separation technology, it can effectively filter wind noise and other environmental noise, providing users with a purer HDR stereo recording experience.

Wireless connection: Dimensity 9300 supports Wi-Fi 7, with a maximum theoretical peak rate of up to 6.5Gbps. It is also equipped with MediaTek’s unique Wi-Fi 7 enhancement technology. With MediaTek Xtra Range™ 2.0 technology, Wi-Fi 7’s indoor coverage can be increased 4.5 meters, and greatly improves the data transmission speed between devices without fear of interference. Dimensity 9300 can support up to 3 Bluetooth antennas and has unique dual-channel Bluetooth flash connection technology, bringing an ultra-low latency Bluetooth audio experience.

5G communication: Integrated 5G modem, supports Sub-6GHz four-carrier aggregation (4CC-CA) and multi-standard dual-card dual-pass, equipped with MediaTek 5G UltraSave 3.0+ power-saving technology, which greatly reduces 5G communication power consumption. Dimensity 9300 integrates 5G and AI to support situational awareness functions.

Data security: Dimensity 9300 integrates dual security chips. The dedicated security chip adopts advanced user data security design, which can protect personal privacy from the beginning of booting. It also has a physically isolated computing environment, making the encryption and decryption of personal data safer. MediaTek uses advanced Memory Tag Extension (MTE) technology to create a more secure application development environment and build stronger user data security.

Manufacturing process: Dimensity 9300 uses TSMC’s third-generation 4nm process.

Memory support: First to support LPDDR5T 9600Mbps memory.

The first smartphone powered by MediaTek Dimensity 9300 chip is expected to be launched by the end of 2023.