From PC Mag: MediaTek is making a bigger bid for the business of Chromebook vendors with a higher-end Kompanion Ultra processor it announced Wednesday.
The Taiwanese fabless semiconductor firm is positioning this new chipset as an upgrade from its earlier and cheaper 500 and 800-series Kompanio chips, following a pattern it set in mobile chips of starting downmarket and then raising its sights to midrange and higher-end phones.
So where MediaTek described the Kompanio 500 as an "entry Chromebook platform," it’s aiming higher with the Ultra. Which you can read as “aiming at Intel,” since that company’s chips have held onto a substantial share of the spendier end of the Chromebook business. Slides shown during an online press preview that touted the Ultra’s upscale specs consistently compared this chipset favorably to Intel’s late-2023-vintage Core Ultra 5 chipset.
Ultra specs include 8 cores on a 3nm process led by an Arm Cortex-X925 chip with a clock speed topping out at 3.62GHz, 16MB combined cache for those cores, its 8th-generation NPU with up to 50 TOPS, an 11-core ray-tracing-capable GPU, and support for two 4K external displays.
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