{"id":416005,"date":"2026-01-17T20:35:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T20:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/416005\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T20:35:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T20:35:10","slug":"mediateks-upcoming-dimensity-9600-chip-is-likely-to-be-quite-popular-among-chinese-flagship-smartphones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/416005\/","title":{"rendered":"MediaTek’s Upcoming Dimensity 9600 Chip Is Likely To Be Quite Popular Among Chinese Flagship Smartphones"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\t\t\t41-60%: Plausible – Reasonable evidence
\n\t\t\t61-80%: Probable – Strong evidence
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MediaTek has yet to announce its next-gen Dimensity 9600 mobile SoC. However, given Qualcomm’s extractive pricing regime for its upcoming bleeding-edge Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 Pro and Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 chips, a number of smartphone OEMs, especially in Asia, are increasingly turning to the Dimensity 9600 as a viable contender to Qualcomm’s AP-related offerings.<\/p>\n

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According to the Weibo-based tipster, Digital Chat Station, the Pro Max versions of the next flagship smartphones from Oppo and Vivo, if announced, will likely be powered by MediaTek’s upcoming Dimensity 9600 chip<\/a> instead of Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 Pro:<\/p>\n

“Ahem, if OV’s next-generation Pro Max is confirmed, it will most likely be powered by the TSMC Dimensity 9600 series N2p chip. The SM8975-Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen6 Pro is only a high-end imaging flagship [not simple] (speculation).” [Translated via Google]<\/p>\n

We noted earlier today that Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 Pro chip will come with some exclusive features such as a\u00a0faster GPU<\/a>,\u00a0LPDDR6 RAM, and UFS 5.0 support<\/a>, albeit with an eye-watering price tag. <\/p>\n

While the report about Qualcomm’s upcoming bleeding-edge chip had taken pains to note that the AP’s eye-watering price tag was not expected to drive away customers<\/a>, Digital Chat Station appears to be disagreeing with that inference, arguing that Oppo and Vivo would likely opt for the Dimensity 9600 chip instead of the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 Pro for their highest-end flagship smartphones.<\/p>\n

For the benefit of those who might not be aware, MediaTek’s Dimensity 9600 chip is expected to leverage TSMC’s N2P lithography process, which provides a 5 percent extra performance boost<\/a> relative to the vanilla N2 process that will be used by Apple for its upcoming A20 and A20 Pro chips<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Of course, the Dimensity 9600 chip would require every ounce of a possible efficiency edge over Apple’s upcoming A20-series chips, especially as the current-gen Dimensity 9500 chip contains no efficiency cores<\/a>, which has worsened its power consumption metrics, while Apple optimized the architecture of its current-gen A19-series chips to allow them to\u00a0deliver a 29 percent performance boost at no additional power consumption<\/a>\u00a0relative to the A18-series chips.<\/p>\n

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The Dimensity 9600 chip is also expected to leverage an LPDDR6 RAM vs the LPD5 12GB RAM in the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max<\/a>, which should give it a theoretical edge on memory bandwidth. Also, only the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 Pro will use the LPDDR6 RAM, while its non-Pro variant is likely to stick with LPDDR5.<\/p>\n

Follow Wccftech on Google<\/a> to get more of our news coverage in your feeds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"0-20%: Unlikely – Lacks credible sources 21-40%: Questionable – Some concerns remain 41-60%: Plausible – Reasonable evidence 61-80%:…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":416006,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[49,48,61],"class_list":["post-416005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}