On Thursday, Nov. 10, on the MediaTek Government Summit, Adam King, Vice President and Basic Supervisor, Consumer Computing Industry Unit, Mediatek, introduced the Kompanio 520 and Kompanio 528 chipsets for entry-level Chromebooks. The brand new chips are the successors of the Kompanio 500, with upgraded CPU, GPU, video codec, higher energy potency, and with fortify for upper solution show.
For each merchandise, the heterogeneous 8-core CPU unit combines 2 functionality cores Arm Cortex-A76 and 6 environment friendly core Arm Cortex-A55, an important improve from the Kompanion 500 that includes 4 Cortex-A73 and four Cortex-A53. The CPU will depend on LPDDR4x RAM clocked at 3733MHz.
Adam King, Vice President and Basic Supervisor, Consumer Computing Industry Unit, introduced the single-core functionality development of the brand new Kompanio chips.
The one distinction between the 520 and the 528 is the functionality cores’ frequency, which is clocked at 2GHz for the 520 and a couple of.2GHz for the 528.
Throughout the presentation, Adam King mentioned that the single-core functionality were given an 80% spice up whilst the multi-core functionality is 15% higher, in comparison to the former era.
“THE SINGLE-CORE PERFORMANCE GOT AN 80% BOOST COMPARED TO THE PREVIOUS GENERATION”
Mediatek says it has a sizeable benefit in opposition to the Intel Celeron N4500, a commonplace non-heterogeneous dual-core Chromebook processor, particularly in relation to performance-per-watt. Eating much less energy to accomplish a given job may be observed as emitting much less carbon (electrical energy manufacturing emits carbon), and upper energy potency will have to translate into higher ESG metrics (Environmental, Social, and Governance) in our opinion.
“The sustainability advantages of the MediaTek Kompanio merchandise are vital too, particularly in heavy workloads the place MediaTek’s low energy processors generate 40% – 60% much less energy-based greenhouse fuel emissions in comparison to competitor platforms,” mentioned Victor Tyan, Senior Director, Consumer Computing GTM.
Energy potency and function comparability with Intel’s Celeron N4500
At the GPU aspect, the Arm Mali-G72 MP3 is changed by way of the Arm Mali G52 MC2 2EE in each new chips. “Each GPUs [Arm Mali-G72 MP3 & Arm Mali G52 MC2] are very shut with regards to functionality and for the general public, the functionality distinction gained’t be noticeable in real-world eventualities. However when you nonetheless need the easier GPU, then Mali-G52 MC2 is easy methods to cross”, in keeping with Tech Centurion (Centurion Mark). We’ll have to check to have extra correct effects.
MediaTek claims a 20% GPU speedup
The brand new dual-core AI processing unit (APU) delivers AI options similar to AI-driven real-time low-light video noise relief and is helping with symbol segmentation and tagging used for digital inexperienced display screen and symbol high quality enhancement (i.e. colour and distinction tuning optimized for various portions of the picture).
The ISP has been stepped forward with as much as 32 MP fortify for the digicam. This option is leveraged from the smartphone SoCs. OEMs would possibly now not use the very best solution within the close to long run, however they are able to scale it down simply to five MP as an example, which is a large development over present computer webcams (most commonly with 0.7MP webcams).
The upgraded multimedia engine contains {hardware} VP9 deciphering and H.265 encoding, which is an improve from the H.264 encoding and H.264, H.265 / HEVC deciphering of the ultimate era (tool VP9). The gadget helps 60fps Full HD video recording now, an improve from the FHD 30 fps fortify within the Kompanio 500. MediaTek claims a 2X functionality spice up for the multimedia unit.
The Kompanio 520 and 528 each and every fortify a Complete HD+ show and a Complete HD exterior show, which doubles the solution fortify in comparison to the former era chipsets.
ChromeOS is understood for its excellent safety observe report and Victor Tyan reminded us that MediaTek works intently with Google to combine the most recent security measures similar to Verified Boot, Integrated Virus Coverage, and Multi-Consumer Beef up with their newest Kompanio 520 and 528 processors.
Conclusion
The Kompanio 520 and 528 processors glance very promising with regards to functionality and prime energy potency for the uber-affordable Chromebook phase.
MediaTek insisted at the all-day battery existence, a function that is helping to relieve battery existence nervousness and lets in scholars to raised focal point on their paintings. To end up the purpose, the chip maker confirmed a photograph of its sales space at an schooling tradeshow, the place a spread of Kompanio-powered Chromebooks used to be exhibited and not using a unmarried energy cable mendacity round.
Colleges would possibly like that function so much since it’s indisputably more secure for youngsters to flow into freely in a lecture room freed from wires and it can be more uncomplicated for the IT body of workers to regulate the entire computer systems.
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