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Wi-Fi 7 will reach phones by the end of 2022 thanks to new MediaTek processors
MediaTek today announced its new 4nm Dimensity 9200 processor, which the company says combines powerful performance with significantly lower power consumption, longer battery life and more efficient cooling to reduce smartphone overheating.
Compared to the previous generation processor (Dimensity 9000), the new processor offers many improvements such as: b.: 10% faster speed, 32% faster GPU graphics performance and an internal redesign that reduces power consumption by 25%.
The main Android phones from Xiaomi, OnePlus, Oppo, Asus and Vivo will use the processor (Dimensity 9200), but the first phones that will use it may arrive late this year 2022 as leaks indicate that it will work with this processor. The new mobile phone (Vivo X90) will be available in the coming weeks.
The MediaTek Dimensity 9200 processor includes one Arm Cortex-X3 3.05 GHz core, three 2.85 GHz cores (Cortex-A715), and four 1.8 GHz cores (Cortex-A510s).
But the most important difference is that the power consumption of the CPU (Dimensity 9200) has been reduced by 25% and the heat dissipation function has been developed which delays the mobile phone overheating by 4 times compared to the previous processor. (size 9000).
The processor is also equipped with a new GPU (Arm Immortalis-G715), which not only provides a 32% increase in performance, but also reduces the risk of Android phone overheating while gaming while reducing power consumption by 41%.
The Immortalis G715 GPU is the first ARM processor with hardware-based ray tracing for better lighting and gaming performance on the go.
However, the biggest development for the processor (Dimensity 9200) will be to allow Android phones to connect to routers and access points using Wi-Fi 7, a technology that the Wi-Fi Alliance has not yet officially adopted. From Wi-Fi it will be called 802.11 to become the standard.
This makes Media Tech more future-oriented than its competitors and has the potential to launch the first phones with the new processor by the end of the year, including in the US and European countries.
However, when we see the benefits of Wi-Fi 7 is unclear as it will take time to popularize it, not to mention the availability of routers and other devices that support it. In this case, it should offer download speeds of up to 30 Gbps, which is much faster than the 4.8 Gbps Wi-Fi 6E it will eventually replace.
However, users continue to upgrade to Wi-Fi 6E, an improved Wi-Fi 6 standard that provides access to 6GHz spectrum over existing 2.4GHz and 5GHz spectrum for speeds above the extended 6GHz.
However, despite the introduction of Wi-Fi 6E in 2020, users have not upgraded enough hardware to take advantage of the higher bandwidth of the new spectrum; Equipping phones with Wi-Fi 7-enabled processors means that users are ready for faster speeds and better wireless internet bandwidth once they have the option to upgrade.